Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly.

In the Niger, legislative power is vested in an 83 member monocameral National Assembly.

The supreme judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court or Riigikohus, with nineteen justices.

The judicial power is vested in the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court and the Economic Court.

Remarkably, disproportionate political, economic and military power is vested in the elites hailing from Tigray region.

Kings typically hankered after male heirs, because power was vested through filial lineage, and distributed through tribal affiliations.

Law According to the Constitution of Estonia () the supreme power of the state is vested in the people.

Vanuatu has a parliamentary democracy with executive power vested in the Prime Minister and a Council of 13 Ministers.

In response to the recent wave of terrorist attacks, Vladimir Putin has demanded that even more power be vested in him.

According to the Dayton Agreement, major administrative power was vested with the Entities, and this included competence for education, science and culture.

Politics, or at least the exercise of power, was traditionally a family affair. Kings typically hankered after male heirs, because power was vested through filial lineage, and distributed through tribal affiliations.

Vested interests are everywhere.

For politicians, the ability to exercise power for their own interests or those of vested interests is constrained by the need to get elected.

Moreover, the power of vested interests that oppose reform state owned enterprises, provincial governments, and the military, for example has yet to be broken.

The need to overhaul SOEs, for example, remains on the agenda, owing to the power of vested interests that oppose further privatization and market based reforms.

The IPCC faced down these vested interests.

Vested interests may also play a role.

After all, neither donor countries nor their partners are exempt from such problems as corruption, political crises, armed conflicts, human rights abuses, vested interests, or international power politics.

But the Indian Presidency is a largely ceremonial position real power is vested in the office of prime minister, and no Dalit has come close to holding that post.

Executive power is vested in a Governor, who has been elected on the same ticket as the Lieutenant Governor since 1970 by popular vote for a four year term.

After all, vested interests do not welcome challenges.

In response to the recent wave of terrorist attacks, Vladimir Putin has demanded that even more power be vested in him. As leading Russian military expert Alexander Golts argues, the problem in Russia is not a lack of central power, but of power exercised incompetently and without individual initiative.

As the European Union Troika said publicly during its visit from 4 to 6 October, the people of Nepal want a proper functioning democracy with power vested in the people.

Business as usual and fighting to maintain vested interests

When citizens become so outraged that their voting decisions may be affected by politicians failure to improve investor protection, public demand for governance reform can overcome the power of vested interests.

Once in power, the DPJ will immediately confront the massive bureaucracy and entrenched mandarins, which usually sabotage any efforts at administrative reform that threatens their power and vested interests. Indeed, immediately after the election, the budget estimates for the next fiscal year are due.

Make those assumptions explicit, and the decisive role of vested interests evaporates.

In contrast with Mexico s authoritarian past, when an imperial presidency constituted a major obstacle to modernization, power has been dispersed. What the executive branch has relinquished, or been forced to give up, vested interests have seized.

This threat to vested interests remains the impetus behind the increasing threat of serious violent confrontation between TFG and the opposition, which is in reality an alliance of convenience to preserve vested interests.

Vested interests remain powerful, certainly in Congress and even within the White House.

The international community, too, has a vested interest in seeing that China rises peacefully.

Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups.

With every vested interest fighting for itself, closed professions proved impossible to pry open.

Only then will they lose their vested interest in an insurgency that has no end.

Unfortunately, strong vested interests have spent millions of dollars on spreading misinformation about climate change.

Europe is pushing for ambitious targets but is having trouble with its own vested interests.

2.13 Substantive responsibility for implementing the subprogramme is vested in the Division for Palestinian Rights.

Legislative authority is vested in a single House of Assembly consisting of 15 elected members.

Indeed, there was no economic malfunction that the two words vested interests could not account for.

What the executive branch has relinquished, or been forced to give up, vested interests have seized.

The antagonism that much of the left felt toward the Fifth Republic, which was tailored to fit de Gaulle s outsized figure, faded only in 1981, when François Mitterrand, one of de Gaulle s most vocal opponents, benefited from the power vested in the presidency.

1.15 vested with the capacity and power of justice officers within the limits of their jurisdiction for the purpose of investigating and combating smuggling, whether of persons or of items which it is forbidden to bring into the territory of the Kingdom.

The big campaign contributors to both parties pay to ensure that their vested interests dominate political debates.

In both cases, the biggest winners were vested interests (Korea s business establishment and the Chinese Communist Party).

But the fundamental explanation lies in a crony capitalist system with too many vested interests to maintain.