Constituent service does also take place in the form of the Petition Committee.

We do not need to change the rules of procedure or founding charters.

3.1.2 Every four years a three day training period precedes the statutory General Assembly.

PIP was firmly convinced that the constituent assembly was the right mechanism.

The PA had an opportunity to lay the institutional foundations for a functioning state.

Given that the elections to the Constituent Assembly needed to ensure their representation, a complex system of quotas was devised.

The Constituent Assembly approach has, so far, proven to be very effective in helping these new caudillos to consolidate their power.

In the end, the establishment of a Constituent Assembly merely weakens all other institutions.

In Tunisia, the election in 2011 brought 49 women into the 217 seat Constituent Assembly.

The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учредительное собрание, Vserossiiskoe Uchreditelnoe sobranie) was a constitutional body convened in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917.

If the people of Puerto Rico chose the constitutional assembly method, the United States Congress could be requested to approve that mechanism.

No such constituent assembly could therefore be expected to alter the nature of Puerto Rico's relations with the United States.

Social contracts created by constitutional and administrative laws define the powers and responsibilities of the state and its constituent bodies vis à vis individuals and the private sector.

The Islamist party Ennahdha won 41 per cent of the votes, and gained 89 out of 217 seats at the constituent assembly.

The following day, members of the NCA marched in the street and met the Minister of Interior to discuss the events of April 9.

The founding assembly of the Association of Archivists in Republika Srpska was held on 26 October 2000 in Banja Luka.

A constituent assembly could ensure broad participation by offering all social groups an opportunity to be involved in the process.

The junta then assumed legislative authority, as well as the power to form a constitutional assembly and veto proposed constitutional provisions.

The challenges that face Prime Minister Prachanda, the incoming coalition government, and the Constituent Assembly, are immense, and trust is fragile.

It would certainly behoove the Assembly to give serious and immediate consideration to the country s deplorable socioeconomic conditions.

Long time Tunisian activists fear that Ennahda, which dominates the assembly, will use the presence of women MPs to restrict women s rights.

Citizens are encouraged to report irregularities they may witness during the October 23 constituent elections.

According to the Morsi camp, the politicized Court intended to dissolve the Consultative Council (the upper house) and the Constitutional Assembly, as some of its judges publicly hinted.

In Libya, a first draft of the electoral law reserved 10 of seats in the constituent assembly for women, but the quota was later abandoned.

Constituent country is a term sometimes used in contexts in which a country makes up a part of a larger political entity, such as a sovereign state.

10. Welcomes the Constituent Peoples decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which reflects the commitment of Bosnia and Herzegovina to meeting the highest standards of human rights and fundamental freedoms

Two thirds of Bolivians are dissatisfied with the way the Constituent Assembly has carried out its work, and a majority believes that the constitutional text is illegal.

In 2001, the organization was well represented at the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), in Durban, South Africa, with two of its constituent organizations playing critical roles.

The Constituent Assembly, which should build national unity and democratic legitimacy, has been turned into a mechanism for division and absolute power.

At that point, the constituent assembly and government could decide whether to switch to a presidential form of government or establish a parliamentary system on a permanent basis.

Over the past two years, fundamental changes in the eurozone s economic governance have aimed at rectifying the monetary union s founding flaws.

The reports (also known as the Meadows Reports) are not strictly the founding texts of the movement, as they only advise zero growth, and have also been used to support the sustainable development movement.

These representative bodies (and not their constituent estates) in turn were represented in the assembly that came to be known as Staten generaal (a plurale tantum), or Algemene Staten (General States).

Serbia became a constituent republic within the SFRY known as the Socialist Republic of Serbia, and had a republic branch of the federal communist party, the League of Communists of Serbia.

PDP was confident that a constituent assembly would launch its work in January 2005 with a view to enabling the Puerto Rican people to opt for the political status that they preferred.

The incoming members of the Assembly therefore must address everyday issues employment, healthcare, education, social justice, minority rights, security, etc.

One of the organization's constituent groups played a key organizational role in planning the NGO conference, as well as facilitating the participation of various NGOs during the conference.

While experts are busy trying to explain the Maoists unprecedented triumph, much hope rests on the newly elected members of the 601 seat Constituent Assembly.

Moreover, most find that when the Assembly gets to deal with specific proposals, which is rare, the proposals are disagreeable.

These founding principles take as a starting point the sharing of knowledge in the tradition of copyleft and include the use of free software, adherence to open standards, the importance of education, respect for diversity and different cultures, transparency and consensus.

In addition, this constituent body chaired an interfaith group that prepared the South African interfaith groups for the WSSD.

On December 21 of the same year, Moldova, along with most of the other Soviet republics, signed the constitutive act that formed the post Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

7. Further welcomes the successful holding, on 30 August 2001, of the elections for the East Timor Constituent Assembly and the appointment, on 20 September 2001, of the all East Timorese Second Transitional Government

The Maoists ran on an anti royalist platform, and it is widely anticipated that the first meeting of the Assembly will abolish the monarchy and declare Nepal a people s republic.

The UN has encouraged and facilitated the process through quiet good offices during the last years of the conflict, human rights monitoring, assistance to the Constituent Assembly election, and monitoring arms and armies during the transition.