Similarly, in India the members of the lower house of Parliament together with weighted votes from the state parliaments elect the head of state.

Sixty members of parliament wrote a protest letter to state run Iranian television complaining about this representation.

India and several other countries have a President or other largely ceremonial head of state elected by their parliament.

The Church of England was the official state religion until its legal disenfranchisement by the Parliament of Barbados following independence.

One Member of Parliament (MP), Badruddin bin Amiruldin, has stated in the Dewan Rakyat house of Parliament that Malaysia ini negara Islam ( Malaysia is an Islamic state ) and that you tidak suka, you keluar dari Malaysia!

The State Elder and the Government were completely dependent on the Parliament and could be sacked by it at any time.

This requires extensive consultation within the Australian Government, with state and territory governments, the community and both Houses of Commonwealth Parliament.

Beyond the balance of representation in parliament and government, a balance might need to be struck between the highest offices of state.

DimitrisBounias Greek media report Dendias in parliament I will sue Guardian on behalf of the Greek state for defamation of our democracy .

In 1924 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for another party, in which he served as vice president until 1928.

The Committee invites the State party to consider adopting affirmative action programmes to improve the political representation of Travellers, particularly at the level of Dáil Eireann (Lower House of Parliament) and or Seanad Eireann (Upper House of Parliament (Senate)).

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For the first time, an Arab parliament had voted a head of state out of office and asserted its will in choosing the successor.

However, in June 1939 the people of Hatay had formed a new independent State and immediately after, the parliament voted to unite with Turkey.

The Parliament evaluates the Government program and its performance, approves the master budget of the State, ratifies international treaties, approves laws, and other norms that regulate the functioning of the institutions of the State.

But this does not mean that the European Parliament is a real parliament.

It calls on the State party to submit the present concluding comments to all relevant ministries and Parliament so as to ensure their full implementation.

On 8 April 2005, a Member of Parliament elect of Shan State, U Kyaw Khin, was sentenced, for the second time, to 14 years' imprisonment.

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India s Hostage Parliament

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The Secretary of State for Education and the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills are responsible to the UK Parliament for education in England, though the day to day administration and funding of state schools is the responsibility of Local Education Authorities.

Such apathy makes my task as Russia's ombudsman, an office charged by the State Duma (parliament) with protecting political rights in Russia, difficult, if not impossible.

Where a report or recommendations have been sent to the Governor in Council, the Ombudsman may submit a report before both Houses of the State Parliament.

Parliament would undertake a review of the 10 year old law on State secrecy with a view to ensuring transparency in the sphere of criminal justice.

Mozambique adhered and ratified the CEDAW through a Resolution emanated from the country's Parliament (Parliament).

This is because under the Westminster system, a parliament generally cannot bind a future parliament.

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Furthermore, like heads of state in other parliamentary systems, he has the right to appoint the government ministers and ambassadors, dissolve the parliament, and dismiss the cabinet.

Moreover, Parliament must approve a declaration of a state of siege and decide which rights would be derogated from, and it played a central role in approving measures adopted by the executive branch under the state of siege.

Among the reasons the President cited were continuing tensions between the organs of State sovereignty which, according to him, hampered the smooth functioning of State institutions and weakened the Government's capacity to pay salaries or to survive in parliament.

Several other inquiries have been held, by institutions such as Penn State University, the British Parliament, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Ms. Šimonović suggested that, in future, the State party's report and the Committee's concluding comments should be submitted to Parliament and disseminated throughout the country at all levels.

More than 40 heads of State, government and parliament, and those who survived the Gehenna of the death camps, have gathered today in Oświęcim to mark that anniversary.

Indeed, the OSCE treats the Lukashenka controlled parliament in the same way it does any EU parliament.

Hammond first entered Parliament following his election in 1997 as Member of Parliament for Runnymede and Weybridge.

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True to form, in his State of the Union address to the European Parliament in September 2012, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso called for a more powerful Commission.

The petitioner is Kamal Quereshi, a Danish national born 29 July 1970 and a current member of the State party's Parliament (Folketinget) for the Socialist Peoples Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti).

The Act has also been amended to state that the Parliament affirms as a principle that a minor child shall only be detained as a measure of last resort .

A state of siege could not exceed 15 days without another decision by Parliament and was, moreover, intended, to restore the functioning of constitutional institutions as soon as possible.

In response, protesters have staged a parliament sit in until the resignation of parliament members and elections are held.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Birri, Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, and Michel Aoun, leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, remain reluctant participants in the search for a new head of state.