The version was unchanged from the legislation approved by Mexico's lower house last week, which was tweaked by a lower house finance committee.
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This week, a committee of the lower house of Congress recommended her impeachment, with a vote in the full lower house expected on Sunday.
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It gives them a guaranteed majority in the lower house.
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In a meeting with the Duma, parliament's lower house, Sen.
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That, too, failed to get support in the lower house.
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There are 110 seats in the lower house of parliament.
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Rousseff, whom the lower house of Congress on Sunday voted
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The amendment passed the lower house on Monday, also unanimously.
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The lower house has not yet voted on the proposal.
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Nigeria's lower house on Thursday voted to offer Jammeh asylum.
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The law relates only to the lower house of parliament.
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But Wednesday's vote in the lower house will be definitive.
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The National Assembly, the lower house, had already approved it.
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He said the lower house should hold a new one.
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The new speaker must be elected by the lower house.
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The lower house has the final say after two readings.
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There are 210 seats in the National Assembly's lower house.
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A lower house vote must be held by December 2018.
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He first won election to the lower house in 2003.
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In July a pension bill finally passed Brazil's lower house.
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This leaves the position of speaker of the Lower House.
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No lower house poll need be held till late 2018.
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Read "Brazil's Lower House Votes to Impeach President Dilma Rousseff"
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Brazil's lower house could start voting on a sweeping pension reform bill on Tuesday, with the vote possibly wrapped up by late Wednesday, the lower house leader of a key government ally said on Monday.
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By cooperating with other opposition parties, he aims to expand their presence in the lower house, defeat Abe's ruling bloc in a 2022 upper house poll and take power in the following lower house election.
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The British lower house has it all in its own hands.
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The casino bill previously cleared the Lower House of Japan's parliament.
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The lower house of parliament returns to session on Jan. 11.
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The lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, approved it on Wednesday.
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The bill had narrowly passed in the lower house in July.
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The bill must return to the lower house for final approval.
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There are 47 lawmakers from the party in the lower house.
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There are a total of 545 seats in parliament's lower house.
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Previously, only members of the lower house voted for prime minister.
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The lower house is expected to approve it in early 2017.
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It is unlikely to win any seats in the lower house.
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He survives in the lower house with a one-seat majority.
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It is to be discussed in the lower house next week.
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In 2012, just 135 elders selected members of the lower house.
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He won election to the lower house of parliament in 22009.
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Just 9% of the members of Japan's lower house are women.
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He is also expected to retain control in the lower house.
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The congressional lower house still has to vote on the measure.
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The discrepancies in the lower house are not quite as bad.
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Russia holds elections to the lower house of parliament on Sept.
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The bill passed through parliament's lower house, the Dáil, last week.
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"I'm very happy," said lower house NLD lawmaker Myint Myint Soe.
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The current measure passed the lower house of Parliament on Friday.
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Abe's coalition already has a super-majority in the lower house.
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He said there were procedural flaws in the lower house vote.
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The bill, passed by the lower house of parliament earlier on Thursday, was to be debated in the upper Senate, where Labor said it intended to suggest new amendments, before going back to the lower house.
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Related: In Stunning Twist, Brazil's Lower House Acting Speaker Annuls Rousseff Impeachment Last Thursday, the supreme court ordered Eduardo Cunha to step down as president of the lower house, where he had promoted the impeachment process.
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With 98 percent of votes tallied in that state, Bolsonaro's son Eduardo was the most-voted lower house candidate in Brazil's history, helping the PSL draw over 20 percent of the lower house vote in São Paulo.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brazil's pension reform process will pick up momentum after the Easter holidays, staying on track for approval in the lower house in May or June, the lower house speaker Rodrigo Maia said on Thursday.
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The leader of Temer's ruling coalition in the lower house, Andre Moura, told Reuters the constitutional amendment was well received by Congressional leaders and would be presented to the lower house floor within at least 60 days.
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Currently, presidents, senators and lower-house deputies are elected on different cycles.
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The lower house of parliament held an extraordinary session to discuss Babis.
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The Lower House will start discussing the 2019 budget later on Wednesday.
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The Lok Sabha, India's lower house, seats as many as 35 parties.
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The opposition pushed the measure through the lower house on December 6th.
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It will then go to the lower house and then the Senate.
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The lower house will now tackle the spending part of the budget.
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The vote in the lower house is expected to be very close.
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The lower house is expected to vote by the end of February.
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There are currently 630 members of the lower house and 315 senators.
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The following year, he was elected to India's lower house of parliament.
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The Bundestag lower house has agreed to postpone any decision until September.
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The lower house of parliament voted to support the referendum last year.
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"It is a dangerous operation," Renzi told the lower house of parliament.
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The ANO has 78 seats in the new 200-seat lower house.
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The draft mostly mirrors a bill the lower house approved in September.
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It had already been passed by the lower house Chamber of Deputies.
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The lower house will convene again on Saturday to choose its chairman.
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It was hand-delivered to the residence of Japan's Lower House speaker.
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Further complicating the matter is Japan's lower house election on Oct. 22.
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The lower house, however, will seat 20 women, a record for Jordan.
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The lower house voted this month there were grounds for a trial.
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Under the current system the Senate and lower house have identical powers.
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The Czech lower house on Wednesday postponed the confidence vote until Jan.
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Full approval in the lower house, however, may be delayed until August.
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Mexico's lower house will have the world's fourth-largest female legislative representation.
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Meanwhile, Malaysia's lower house of Parliament passed a bill outlawing fake news.
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The pension reform bill has already been approved by the lower house.
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During the impeachment vote in the lower house, Temer was photographed smiling.
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The lower house is the one where people choose their own representatives.
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The lower house committee passed the text by 36 votes to 13.
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Lidington had been serving as leader of the lower house of parliament.
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Her son, Máximo, leads the Peronists in the lower house of congress.
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The party won the most seats in the lower house on Sunday.
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The Bhumjaithai Party won 39 of 373 lower house seats already decided.
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The casino legalization bill had already passed the lower house on Dec. 6.
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Last week the country's lower house overwhelmingly approved a motion for her impeachment.
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In January, Germany's lower house of parliament passed a law legalizing medical cannabis.
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In the lower house of India's parliament only 12% of MPs are women.
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It would then go to the lower house and subsequently to the Senate.
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In October, the lower house of Congress again rejected corruption charges against Temer.
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The PSDB lost nearly half its seats in the lower house (see chart).
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Chaos awaits, as 27 different parties now hold seats in the lower house.
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A member of the lower house earns about €60,000 (about $67,000) a year.
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In the lower house, Abe's ruling coalition enjoys a two-thirds "super majority".
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They called for a vote in the Bundestag lower house before the election.
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Of the 543 elected members in the lower house, just 62 are women.
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In January, Germany's lower house of parliament passed a law legalising medical cannabis.
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The pro-revision camp holds a two-thirds majority in the lower house.
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The party will also run candidates for the lower house in five districts.
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The lower house Chamber of Deputies voted 318 in favor and 178 against.
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The LDP-led bloc has a two-thirds majority in the lower house.
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He was elected to the lower house in 2009 after his father's retirement.
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MORENA and its allies have a majority in the lower house of Congress.
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Spain's lower house is now Europe's most gender-equal legislature, with 47.1% women.
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The peace accord now moves to the lower house of Congress for endorsement.
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Above, the Reichstag, the seat of the lower house of Parliament, in Berlin.
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Before the vote, shoving matches broke out in the lower house of Congress.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's lower house plans to hold a confirmation session on Jan.
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Rwanda topped the IPU list, with women representing 61% of lower house seats.
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In March, Thais will vote for the 500-seat lower house of parliament.
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Any changes made in the Lords would need approval by the lower house.
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A split would rob Merkel of her majority in the Bundestag lower house.
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Speculation has been simmering for months that Abe might dissolve parliament's lower house and call a snap election, with scenarios including a lower house poll in April, an election for both houses in July or a snap poll in December.
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Earlier this month, lower house speaker Rodrigo Maia had said he hoped the committee would give its verdict on the government's signature reform bill by June 26, before sending it on to the lower house plenary for a full vote.
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BRASILIA, June 2 (Reuters) - The lower house of Brazil's Congress on Thursday approved salary raises for military and civil servants that will cost about 4 billion reais ($1.12 billion) this year, the lower house said through its official news agency.
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At the time, he was speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament.
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In the lower house, that requires at least 308 votes of the 513 members.
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"We have clearly lost these elections," said the PD's lower house leader Ettore Rosato.
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If they fail to do so, the lower house will have the final word.
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Savastyanova said the lower house will consider the measure next week, according to RIA.
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If the impeachment is not approved in the lower house, the process is nullified.
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The government and its remaining allies have an assured majority in the lower house.
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India started voting on Thursday to elect members to the lower house of Parliament.
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In the last election, Congress had won just 21 seats in the lower house.
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Two attempts to discretely push the measure through the lower house failed last year.
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BRAZIL'S RAMOS: GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE 308 VOTES IN LOWER HOUSE TO PASS PENSION REFORM
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His confusingly named Social Liberal Party is the second-biggest in the lower house.
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The Bundestag lower house of parliament still has to decide on the law change.
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In October, women won a record 48% of the seats in Iceland's lower house.
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Women make up 61% of its lower house, the highest percentage in the world.
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As a result, Mr Turnbull has lost his lower-house majority of just one.
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Whites are steadily moving into predominantly black neighbourhoods in search of lower house prices.
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The country's upper house, lower house and the military will each nominate a candidate.
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"Something has changed in our country," she told the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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Lawmakers in France's lower house of parliament paid their respects with a standing ovation.
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The legislation was adopted in the lower house by 241-4, with 21 abstentions.
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A vote in the full lower house is expected to take place on Sunday.
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The package of bills must now pass the state's lower house, the reports said.
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The draft law must now be approved by the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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The LDP and Komeito already hold a two-thirds majority in parliament's lower house.
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The Parliament's lower house, the House of Commons, voted 432-202 against the deal.
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Both the Lower house and Senate are currently analyzing constitutional amendments on this subject.
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His ruling bloc has a two-thirds majority in the more powerful lower house.
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Ramos, who chaired the lower house pension reform commission, said spending cuts were unavoidable.
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The lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved the bill by a single vote.
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The bill will go back to the lower house of parliament for another vote.
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The proposal was presented to members of Chile's lower house of Congress on Tuesday.
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Subsequently, impeachment proceedings against Ms. Rousseff began in a committee in Brazil's lower house.
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The lower house of India's parliament voted to further criminalize the practice in December.
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Lower house lawmakers overwhelmingly backed the basic text of the bill earlier this week.
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The Bundestag (lower house of parliament) is due to discuss the motion on Thursday.
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The lower house will vote on a mandate for foreign military missions on Friday.
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Lawmakers are openly doubting that the bill can clear the lower house this year.
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Palang Pracharat is likely to win around 120 lower house seats on its own.
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But its prospects in the more powerful lower house, the Dail, are less certain.
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That helped give Mr. Modi a substantial majority in the lower house of Parliament.
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A total of 475 seats in the lower house will be up for grabs.
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The lower house had voted overwhelmingly in favor of the measure on Sept. 12.
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Pheu Thai was relying on TSN seats to bolster support in the lower house.
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The lower house of parliament backed the changes in a preliminary vote last month.
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The debate was called by the Petitions Committee of the lower house of parliament.
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House of Commons Speaker John Bercow said the lower house would sit on Wednesday.
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Speakers will need to be elected for both the Senate and the Lower House.
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His party has 12 of the 150 seats in the lower house of Parliament.
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On Thursday the lower house of parliament started the debate on the judicial reforms.
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The weakened bill is now heading to the lower house for a second reading.
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The ruling Democratic Party was projected to get 18.1 percent in the lower house.
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The Dutch lower house votes to ban face veils in public places The Dutch lower house votes to ban face veils in public places The Dutch parliament voted overwhelmingly Thursday in favor of a ban on women wearing face veils in public places.
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"We have achieved an agreement with teeth," said Rodrigo Lara, president of the lower house.
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Koike's party on Tuesday unveiled a list of 192 candidates for the lower house election.
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"Temer is the leader of a lower house criminal organization," Época quoted Batista as saying.
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It carries little risk for him thanks to his healthy majority in the lower house.
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The accord was approved by Brazil's lower house on Tuesday, but still needs Senate approval.
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After passing Poland's lower house last week, the Polish Senate approve the bill on Thursday.
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The other was to introduce a new electoral law for the lower house in 2015.
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On Monday, a congressional committee in the lower house voted in favor of impeaching Rousseff.
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Legislators in the lower house adopted the bill by a margin of 415 to 127.
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A senate vote will go forward on Wednesday despite the disruption in the lower house.
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Voters get two voting slips - one for the Senate and one for the lower house.
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Abe easily won the race Wednesday with 312 votes in the 465-seat lower house.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's lower house was dissolved on Thursday ahead of an expected snap Oct.
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Initial results suggest Pheu Thai won 20143 of the 500 seats in the lower house.
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A rival candidate, meanwhile, would need 376 votes in the lower house—a daunting target.
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Just 23 of the 342 members of the lower house bothered to vote on it.
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Another law banning foreign political donations has yet to be introduced in the lower house.
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Rodrigo Maia, the new speaker of the lower house of congress, is also a member.
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Brazil's lower house of congress is expected to vote next Wednesday on Temer's corruption charge.
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The Labour Party has 15 of 17 seats in the lower house of Antigua's parliament.
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Mendez suggested Pierluisi did not have the votes in the lower house to be confirmed.
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The budget must still be confirmed by the lower house of parliament after a Sept.
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The Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, will vote on the budget plans in November.
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Di Battista, who had won a seat in the lower house, was one of them.
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The government easily won the largely symbolic votes in France&aposs lower house of parliament.
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The defection means the FPV is no longer the biggest group in the lower house.
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The PT leader in the lower house immediately denounced the police operation as "coup-mongering".
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Two-thirds of the lower house must vote against Temer for his trial to occur.
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The text had already been approved by the lower house, 379 to 131, in July.
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He won the lower house motion by 350 votes to 236, with 35 parliamentarians abstaining.
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The lower house is expected to vote on lifting his immunity in the coming weeks.
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While the BJP controls the lower house, it is a minority in the upper house.
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The bill was approved by Argentina's lower house on June 14, and it was close.
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The bill now moves to the full lower house, where it can still be modified.
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But the spectacle in the lower house on April 17th surely counts among the oddest.
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Mr Temer was elected to Congress four times and was Speaker of the lower house.
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Voters get two voting slips — one for the Senate and one for the lower house.
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The deal is likely to be passed by the Bundestag lower house, probably on Sept.
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Jordan's lower house of Parliament has limited political power or influence over the government's policies.
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Various legislators in the lower house vented their ire against Mr. Cunha on Monday night.
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At least 272 seats are needed for a majority in the lower house of parliament.
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Preliminary seat allocations for the 25-seat lower house give 25-Star 25-224 seats.
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Abe on Thursday dissolved the lower house and called a snap election for Oct. 22.
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The committee will recommend to the lower house whether there are grounds to impeach Rousseff.
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Waters leads the committee which vets financial companies on behalf of the U.S. lower house.
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He had been speaker of the lower house before his selection as Rousseff's running mate.
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It was passed in the lower house in January but failed in the upper house.
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As a lawmaker, he now heads Macron's ruling party in the lower house of parliament.
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Their victory in the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, had appeared uncertain for weeks.
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The current electoral law for the lower house is under review by Italy's constitutional court.
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It passed the lower house of Parliament in 2114 by a slim 2989-280 margin.
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The police searched offices in the lower house of Parliament as part of their investigation.
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He proposes to strengthen the Duma, Russia's lower house, which would name the prime minister.
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A first vote in the full lower house chamber should take place early next week.
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His omnibus bill to fight crime and corruption is stuck in a lower-house committee.
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In 1947, Mr. Nakasone ran successfully for a seat in the lower house of Parliament.
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The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Congress, narrowly passed the bill in June.
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Late Sunday night, Brazil's lower house of Congress voted to impeach the president, Dilma Rousseff.
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Brazil's lower house of congress has voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff over corruption charges.
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The lower house had already suspended her in May, pending the trial in the senate.
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Investors were wary of political developments ahead of a snap lower house election called by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who expects to consolidate another term for his Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition even if it reduced its lower house dominance to a simple majority.
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That means Prayuth's party and allies have to win only 126 seats in the lower house to vote him in as prime minister, while Pheu Thai and its potential "democratic front" partners would need 376 all from the lower house to choose the next premier.
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Earlier this month the lower house, the House of Commons, passed the legislation without amending it.
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The additional deployments will have to be approved by the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.
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The lower house of parliament is expected to consider draft legislation on the matter next week.
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This sits well against relatively lower house price growth of 3.2 to 3.6 percent last year.
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Duque, 43, has only a slim majority in the Senate and none in the lower house.
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The constitutional reform received the required support of two thirds of lawmakers in the Lower House.
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Impeachment may be irreversible at this point, however, even after the reversal in the lower house.
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After tweaking the budget plan, the government will submit it to the lower house of parliament.
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The party that wins the majority of seats in the lower house will form a government.
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The 350 deputies in Spain's lower house are elected in 52 constituencies, whose size varies widely.
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His (misleadingly named) Social Liberal Party (PSL) will be the second-largest in the lower house.
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Combined, the two parties have a majority of 103 seats in the 183-seat lower house.
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An impeachment motion, which Brazil's lower house of Congress approved Sunday, will go to the Senate.
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Up for grabs are the 125 seats in Cambodia's National Assembly, its lower house of parliament.
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And Cunha, as head of the lower house of Congress, would have been second in line.
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"I hope the house will vote the initial text without the (lower house) amendments," Maia said.
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The 63-year-old Abe dissolved the lower house in late September to force an election.
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For the decree to be killed, both the Senate and the lower house must reject it.
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He has needlessly antagonised some allies, including Rodrigo Maia, the powerful speaker of the lower house.
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The last election left the coalition with 76 of the 150 seats in the lower house.
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The law harmonises the rules for the Senate and the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies.
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Details: Palang Pracharat apparently captured the second-most constituency seats in the lower house of parliament.
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These powers will in future be held only by the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house.
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"The fight continues now in the Senate," he told reporters in the lower house of congress.
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Temer's allies in the lower house say they have the votes needed to block the charge.
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The bill, which still needs to clear parliament's lower house, would apply retroactively, contravening EU legislation.
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"Absolutely nothing has changed in the center-right's position," lower house deputy Renato Brunetta told Reuters.
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"Boldrini's clone is here on the stage," Salvini said, referring to lower house speaker Laura Boldrini.
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Democrats also picked up two state Senate seats and 11 seats in the state's lower House.
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The move deprived the FPV of its position as the largest grouping in the lower house.
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BRAZIL PENSION REFORM STILL ON TRACK FOR LOWER HOUSE VOTE BY END OF MAY -PENSION SECRETARY
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The lower house of Parliament is scheduled to carry out a series of votes this week.
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Between them, the Socialists and Ciudadanos only command 130 seats of the 350-seat lower house.
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Italy's 2019 budget is expected to be approved by the lower house of parliament this week.
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Kazakhstan's Mazhilis, the lower house of parliament, quickly approved Mamin's nomination announced earlier in the day.
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The speakers of parliament's lower house and senate are both currently on trial in separate cases.
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He fainted after a long Lower house vote on a landmark labor reform late on Wednesday.
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Talks resumed this week after the lower house voted to reject a criminal charge against Temer.
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The measure has already passed the Senate, leaving the lower House to give final legislative approval.
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Two-thirds of the lower house must vote to approve the charge for that to happen.
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EVEN by the eccentric standards of the Brazilian congress's lower house, it was an odd sight.
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That is not true of Eduardo Cunha, the former Speaker of the lower house of congress.
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After Lula's detention the party's leader in the lower house of Congress declared a "political war".
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Marinho predicted that the lower house would hold the final vote on the bill on Aug.
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The party and its allies already hold a similar majority in the lower house of Parliament.
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He won the lower house confidence motion by 403 votes to 236, with 35 parliamentarians abstaining.
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A prominent lawmaker, he was speaker of the lower house of Congress between 2013 and 2015.
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Kipkemoi is now the principal clerk assistant of the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament.
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Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of Russia's lower house of parliament, said the measures were "beyond logic".
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The lower house of Congress has yet to decide on a request to impeach the president.
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Stanislaw Tyszka, deputy marshal of the lower house of Parliament, ended the debate by scolding members.
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Its observations are passed back to the lower house, where they can be accepted or rejected.
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After the debate in the upper house, the bill will be passed to the lower house.
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One, for allegedly taking bribes, was blocked by the lower house of Congress in early August.
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The lower house of the German parliament is expected to vote on the law this week.
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Thirty parties won seats in the lower house, up from 25 represented there before the vote.
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There are 545 seats in the lower house, and people elect representatives to 543 of these.
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Reforms adopted last year will cut the number of lower house seats to 465 from 475.
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A two-thirds majority in the lower house of parliament is required to change the constitution.
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To secure the premiership, the alliance needs to have 376 seats, all from the lower house.
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Last month, the lower house voted to spare Mr. Temer from standing trial in that case.
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There are 222 seats in the lower house of parliament, with 112 needed for a majority.
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The results would break the right-wing parties' majority in the lower house, Professor Sciarini said.
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The measure, which passed the Senate last month, must still be approved by the lower house.
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At present, the ruling LDP-Komeito coalition holds two thirds of the lower house, 316 seats.
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Russia's lower house of parliament has already backed Putin's proposed reforms in a vote last month.
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The bill passed the lower house of parliament and lands today in the upper house. 4.
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Borghi is a eurosceptic economist and chairs the budget committee of the lower house of parliament.
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There are concerns that lower house prices could encourage builders to cut back on new projects.
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The party's 188 seats give it a decided majority in the lower house, the National Assembly.
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Under Pena Nieto, the PRI and its allies had a slim majority in the lower house.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bhutan's lower house of parliament voted on Friday to decriminalize gay sex.
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The lower house speaker can summon a no-confidence vote once he receives an official request.
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Lawmakers in Britain's lower house of parliament voted 327 to 299 in favour of the plan.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house could start voting on a sweeping pension reform bill on Tuesday, with the vote possibly wrapped up by late-Wednesday, the lower house leader of the New Party, a key government ally, said on Monday, after speaking with the chamber's leader.
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BRASILIA, April 14 (Reuters) - A majority of members of Brazil's largest political party in the lower house of Congress will back the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in a critical vote for her political future on Sunday, the party's leader in the lower house said on Thursday.
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In June the lower house of the state assembly passed a bill to get formal negotiations going.
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It also sees passage in Brazil's lower house of a proposal to boost biofuels use as positive.
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Friday&aposs vote in the parliament&aposs lower house followed approval by its upper house, the Senate.
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To win, a party needs to win 272 seats in the 543-member lower house of parliament.
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The BSI said all but one of the seven parties in the Bundestag lower house were affected.
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That goal "is not an end in itself," Merkel told the lower house of parliament on Wednesday.
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Talks resumed last month after the lower house voted to reject a criminal charge against the president.
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In the lower house his backers hold just 83 of 170 seats, which is less than half.
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Police in Brazil arrested Eduardo Cunha, a former speaker of congress's lower house, on charges of corruption.
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Malaysia's lower house of Parliament just approved a measure threatening spreaders of "fake news" with prison sentences.
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"To a certain point, he is right," said Gian Luigi Gigli, a lawmaker in Italy's lower house.
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Forbes reports, "The male-dominated Assembly, France's lower house of Parliament, drew record attendance," for her address.
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The decision must still be ratified by the full lower house of Congress and then the Senate.
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"I regret the outcome of the Brexit vote in the British lower house in London," he tweeted.
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Wakatabe, speaking in the lower house, said it was important for the BOJ to anchor inflation expectations.
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The bill, already voted by the lower house of parliament, will go to the Senate next week.
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Congress has also so far failed to correct over-representation of small states in the lower house.
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The BSI said all but one of the seven parties in the lower house had been affected.
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But Democrats, who hold the majority in the lower house, have indicated they are in no hurry.
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Under new plans, 13,750 people from across federal states will chose 275 members of the lower house.
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It has provoked calls for further investigations by the head of the lower house social security committee.
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France's 1.3 million citizens abroad are represented in the lower house of parliament by 11 electoral districts.
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Investors overwhelmingly expect the lower house to approve pension reform in the second half of this year.
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Poland's governing Law and Justice (PiS) party retained a majority in Poland's lower house after the Oct.
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Rome, Lower house of parliament expected to hold vote of confidence in the government's new security bill.
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The AfD is expected to enter the Bundestag lower house for the first time after September's election.
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Approval by both the Lower House and the Senate is needed to force Rousseff to step down.
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Another 150 "party seats" in the lower house will be allocated under a complex proportional representation formula.
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Any such bill is likely to be put before the lower House of Commons the following week.
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After hours of debate in the lower house on Thursday, lawmakers agreed to launch a parliamentary inquiry.
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But an opposition alliance majority in the lower house, the House of Representatives, could lead to deadlock.
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Antonio Tejero seized the lower house of the Spanish parliament and attempted to take over the country.
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That may be enough to snatch at least Mayo, a prized Liberal lower-house seat near Adelaide.
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Mr. Macedo emphasized that justices had already approved the impeachment proceedings carried out in the lower house.
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But in the more powerful lower house, women make up just 10 percent of the 465 members.
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The party says it only needs a brief session in the lower house to complete the legislation.
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It is the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Congress, not the full two-chamber Congress.
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First, the lower house voted in April to give the Senate the authority to open an investigation.
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The coalition has a larger majority in the lower house, which is due to vote on Wednesday.
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Borghi is a lawmaker and president of the lower house budget committee but is not a minister.
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"Our duty is to take back the power of the lower house and the Congress," Maia said.
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Arroyo was re-elected for third and last time as member of the lower house of Congress.
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In 1996, he became the first Australian of Asian descent elected to a state Parliament's lower house.
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The change to the law does not require the support of the government in the lower house.
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The president's chief of staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, said the lower house vote could be held next week.
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It escalated late last year as the elections for the more important lower house of Parliament approached.
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It will then be debated, voted on and sent to the lower house plenary for a vote.
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Scholz said he would speak in Merkel's place in the Bundestag lower house of parliament on Wednesday.
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Scholz said he would speak in Merkel's place in the Bundestag lower house of parliament on Wednesday.
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A bill passed in the lower house of Parliament was a victory for the global divestment movement.
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They should exercise their deliberative rights as an equal congressional member, not beholden to the lower House.
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Jean Tholbert Alexis, a former speaker of the Lower House of Congress, said parliament had been undermined.
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"We will send this matter to the court tomorrow," an official at the lower house told Reuters.
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During the debate in the lower house on Monday, a politician proposed to his same-sex partner.
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Poland's Supreme Court ruled last week that the law, as passed by the lower house, was unconstitutional.
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The legislation faces further discussion and possible modifications in the lower house before being sent to Senate.
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The lower house of congress voted to impeach Rousseff for breaking budget laws, a charge she denies.
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If approved by the Senate, the proposal would then proceed to the lower house for a vote.
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The Senate approved the lower house bill without changes Wednesday evening, sending it to Temer for signature.
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The bill, which was changed by the lower house, will return to the Senate for final approval.
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The other was Eduardo Cunha, who resigned in July as speaker of the lower house of Parliament.
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The block won its first senate seat and around 20 seats in the lower house of Congress.
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Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in India's lower house amid raucous debate.
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The plan was introduced in June and has passed first-reading in the lower house of parliament.
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If it passes the lower house, the bill will be the first full decriminalization in the world.
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His Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies control nearly two-thirds of the lower house of Parliament.
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The general election is for all 222 seats of parliament's lower house, known as the Dewan Rakyat.
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Her decision not to run for a lower house seat herself could also deter voters, they said.
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Mr. Macri does not have a majority in either the Senate or the lower house, but he was bolstered this week when a group of lawmakers once loyal to former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, a political opponent of Mr. Macri, defected from her bloc in the lower house.
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The Senate's make-up is somewhat more friendly to her than that of the lower house: larger and richer states in the south and south-east, where she and her party are widely loathed, account for half of lower-house seats but only a quarter of the Senate's.
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Investors were wary of political developments ahead of a snap lower house election called by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was apparently calculating that it would consolidate another term for his Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition even if it reduced its lower house dominance to a simple majority.
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But for the case to proceed, two-thirds of deputies in the lower house of congress must consent.
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The reform is due to be voted on in a special commission of the lower house on Thursday.
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"This opens the door ... to put us all in jail," said Reinaldo Cala, a FARC lower house deputy.
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ANO won 78 seats in the 200-seat lower house and will need partners to form a majority.
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He served as ambassador to France and Germany, foreign minister and president of the lower house of parliament.
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Japan's lower house committee cleared the way to legalize casinos in the form of "integrated resorts" on Dec.
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The lower house this month approved a 2019 central state budget with a deficit of 40 billion crowns.
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In a vote Tuesday, lawmakers in the lower house approved cutting the commission's annual budget to just $19.63.
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Neither the lower house - where the PRI holds a majority - nor the ASF could be reached for comment.
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The fight is for 22014 of the 21.8 seats in India's lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha.
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Romania's most powerful politician, who is also speaker of the lower house, has repeatedly denied all the charges.
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The four bills, passed by the lower house, would next be presented before the upper house of parliament.
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The bill will now be debated, voted on and sent to the lower house plenary for a vote.
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Following the bill's passage in the lower house last year, approval is now needed in the upper house.
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The split means newly elected Macri's "Let's Change" alliance now holds the largest minority in Congress' lower house.
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The NLD nominated Htin Kyaw, who joined the party just two months ago, as its lower house candidate.
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Or consider the national election in March in which Thais selected the 500 members of the lower house.
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It was unanimously passed by the upper house of parliament, after previously passing the more powerful lower house.
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Karczewski added that senators would wait to see the lower house of parliament's stance on the law, however.
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The average age of lower-house deputies elected in 2000 was 22016, 2150 years above the national mean.
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Chile Vamos won the most seats and is just five short of a majority in the lower house.
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The size of the lower house will be reduced, with at least 25% of them reserved for women.
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The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) will become the fifth-biggest party in the 500-member lower house.
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Recent reforms will reduce the number of lower house seats to 465 from 475 in the coming election.
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The lower house, which is used as headquarters for the production team, is destroyed, according to the outlet.
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An initial vote cleared the lower house of Congress earlier this month, but full passage is still pending.
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Starting this week, India heads to the polls to elect members for the lower house of its Parliament.
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On Thursday, the speaker's office said that Waldir continued to be the PSL leader in the lower house.
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India heads to the polls starting this week to elect members for the lower house of its Parliament.
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Sanchez's coalition earned its first senate seat and around 20 seats in the lower house in November's election.
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Two other lower house independents, Andrew Wilkie and Cathy McGowan, have ruled out any deals with the government.
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Results published last week showed Palang Pracharat winning 115 seats in the 500-member lower House of Representatives.
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Jaitley will present the 2017/18 budget at 11 am (0530 GMT) to the lower house of parliament.
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A third of the Senate and half the lower House of Congress are up for election in October.
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The fight is for 543 of the 273.6 seats in the lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha.
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Collomb will be questioned by members of the lower house on Monday and by the Senate on Tuesday.
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Kyaw is the NLD's lower house nominee, and now the latter two groups must announce their respective choices.
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The winner will need to claim at least 76 seats in the 151-seat lower House of Representatives.
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It was approved nearly unanimously by the lower house and will now go to the Senate for consideration.
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Voting in the plenary could begin as early as Tuesday, according to Rodrigo Maia, the lower house president.
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Final decisions on that issue would be made in June, she told the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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Akbayan lawmaker Tom Villarin said he will file a lower house resolution to look into "this shameful incident".
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The bill has been approved by the lower house Chamber of Deputies and is currently in the Senate.
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The figures under investigation include the president of the Senate and the new speaker of the lower house.
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A previous censure motion failed to pass the lower house in June when Botero did have centrist support.
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The upper house Senate originally proposed a 6 percent tariff, but this was halved in the lower house.
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The budget must still be passed by the full assembly of the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag.
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Lower house lawmakers moved quickly on the bill last week after it had languished in committees for years.
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In most national elections, all of the lower house, but only half the Senate, is up for election.
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He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Brazil's Congress, not a senator.
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While the lower house has given approval to privatize the distributors, the Senate is still considering the measure.
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Former lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha, who is already in prison, also fell under the scope of investigation.
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On June 12, the UK's lower house will vote on proposed amendments to the government's EU withdrawal bill.
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That generated the threat of "tit-for-tat" retaliation from the speaker of Russia's lower house, Vyacheslav Volodin.
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The lower house backed the bill, which will make anyone practising instant divorce liable to prosecution, last week.
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The government will seek to overturn these amendments when the legislation returns to the lower House of Commons.
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The fight is for 22014 of the 238.7 seats in India's lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha.
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The Senate is due to vote on it next week and it then moves to the lower house.
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The bill passed the lower house of Parliament Tuesday but must still be approved by the upper house.
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The party, the third largest in the country's lower house, has asked for a suspension of parliament's activity.
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"We cannot in the coming months waste our time with disputes and clashes," Conte told the lower house.
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The Finance Bill, passed by a voice vote, was approved by the lower house of parliament last week.
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Parliament speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the lower house would hold its next reading of the legislation on Feb.
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Merkel, in remarks to the Bundestag (lower house of parliament), insisted that a deal with Turkey would help.
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The lower house and senate speakers, both leaders of the ruling coalition, are on trial in separate cases.
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Parties will be vying to win a majority in the 500-seat lower house of parliament on Sunday.
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House of Commons Speaker John Bercow later on said Britain's lower house of parliament will sit on Wednesday.
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In the lower house of Russian parliament - known as State Duma - she coordinates relations with the U.S. Congress.
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Thanathorn's party won 80 out of 500 available seats in the lower house of parliament in the election.
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In India, roughly 12 percent of the 545-member Lok Sabha, or lower house of Parliament, are women.
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In 2017, she supported Babis when she abstained in a lower house vote on lifting his parliamentary immunity.
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Rome, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks at Italy's lower house ahead of the European Council meeting of Oct.
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Both the lower house and a new senate, whose representatives were selected somewhat differently, have been sworn in.
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Amid increased scrutiny from the courts, Kenya's lower house is expected to vote on a bill on Wednesday.
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The request will be put to a vote in the full lower house of parliament, possibly in September.
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The senate's approval comes after the lower house overwhelmingly voted in favor of the measure on Sept. 12.
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What's more: There currently are 20173 popularly elected representatives in the lower house — less than the 330 maximum.
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Merkel reasserted a defense of the deal in remarks to lawmakers in the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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While the government does not currently need the support of crossbenchers in the lower house to hold office, should the court rule Deputy Prime Minister Joyce ineligible, it could only survive with the support of at least one non-government MP. Only one lower house crossbencher has not withdrawn their support.
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BRASILIA, June 17 (Reuters) - Brazil's special congressional committee on pension reform is expected to approve the bill on June 26, lower house speaker Rodrigo Maia said on Monday, adding that the committee's changes to the draft last week will help ensure it gets majority backing in the final lower house vote.
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The reason this calculation is so tricky is because not all 3133 MPs in Britain's lower house are included.
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Last year she became the first aboriginal woman to be elected to the lower house of the federal parliament.
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PDI-P leads Widodo's 10-party coalition which now controls the lower house, which is the main parliamentary chamber.
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The bill passed with 55 votes in favor, 13 against, and one abstention following approval in the lower house.
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Now, the full lower house must vote on the impeachment proceedings, which is expected to take place on Sunday.
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Koizumi, 38 and a member of the lower house of parliament, said the two had been dating since 2018.
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Around three-quarters of the 650 members of the lower house backed remaining in the EU before the referendum.
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Independents and small parties have secured five seats in the parliament's lower house and have won key Senate seats.
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They include passing a law against conflicts of interest and introducing proportional voting in the lower house of parliament.
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The bid to impeach Rousseff was launched late last year by then-speaker of the lower house Eduardo Cunha.
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There had been some speculation Abe would call a lower house election to coincide with the upper house election.
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India follows the parliamentary system of government where the lower house — known as the Lok Sabha — comprises elected representatives.
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In the lower house the re-election rate of deputies dropped from 56% in the previous election to 49%.
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The major parties are vying for a majority share of the 151 lower-house seats to form a government.
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That would comfortably exceed the 5 percent threshold parties must reach to enter the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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The exit poll showed the League on 14.5 percent in the lower house, with Forza Italia on 14 percent.
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So last year an electoral law was passed that applied only to the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies.
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Under him, the LDP has convincingly won three elections for the lower house and two for the upper house.
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For the case to proceed, the charges must be approved by two-thirds of deputies in the lower house.
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He's attempting to win Jewish votes in an upcoming election for a seat in the lower house of Parliament.
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Babis&apos ANO (YES) movement won 78 seats in the 200-seat lower house of Parliament earlier in October.
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It is expected to be the third largest party in the Bundestag lower house after the September general election.
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Commentators said the result indicated that the party looked poised to enter the lower house of parliament in 2017.
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On that occasion, the lower house of Congress voted, in 2017, to block his trial in the Supreme Court.
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Even if Pheu Thai's claimed majority evaporates, it is clear that the lower house will be difficult to manage.
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Mr Temer persuaded the lower house of congress not to refer the case to the supreme court for trial.
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His ruling bloc won a two-thirds "super majority" in an October lower house poll, helped by opposition disarray.
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"Tomorrow a new era begins," Santos said Wednesday, celebrating the Senate's endorsement before the vote in the lower house.
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The LDP has retained its "super-majority" of two-thirds of the seats in the lower house of parliament.
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His Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition retained its two-thirds "super majority" in parliament's lower house in the Oct.
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The lower house passed the main text of the bill on Wednesday by a far wider margin than predicted.
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"The government is a crisis factory," said Rodrigo Maia, the business-friendly president of the lower house of congress.
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The group busted a glass door to gain access to the lower house and clashed violently with legislative guards.
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It is very unlikely to succeed, as lawmakers from Macron's party have a solid majority in the lower house.
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"This is the big day for us," Zar Ni Min, an NLD lower house MP, said after the vote.
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The lower house later approved the the special committee that will review the request for impeachment, Agencia Brasil reported.
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"If this (deal) happened it would be of unprecedented seriousness," PD lawmaker Emanuele Fiano said in the lower house.
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The heartbeat legislation has been approved twice before by the state's lower house only to fail in the Senate.
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The country with the most women in its lower house is Rwanda where women held 1203 percent of seats.
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He was reportedly approved by the foreign affairs committee of the lower house of the Russian parliament in May.
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Norbert Lammert, 67, who is president of the Bundestag lower house of parliament, is seen as another possible candidate.
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She has also reappointed Gavin Williamson as her chief whip in the lower house of parliament, Downing Street said.
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If approved, the bill will go to the lower house, where a new debate and voting would take place.
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The text, approved in the lower house after 77 hours of hard-fought debate, now goes to the Senate.
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The paper was seen at the Polish Parliament's lower house, the Sejm, Wednesday morning and sparked criticism among lawmakers.
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The new nominees must be approved by the lower house of parliament, the Sejm, where PiS has a majority.
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Later the speaker of the lower house of parliament, Francois de Rugy, announced a parliamentary inquiry into the case.
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However, as soon as voting on the bill began in the lower house this week, the agreement looked shaky.
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An Uber spokesman also said the company would comment once all the amendments are voted in the Lower House.
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Al-Wefaq, Bahrain's biggest opposition group, once controlled almost half of Bahrain's lower house with 18 seats in 2010.
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But to form a government Labor will have to snatch 19 extra seats in the 150-seat lower house.
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Last month, the lower house rejected a prior corruption charge Temer faced, that he took bribes from JBS officials.
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Ashley will give evidence to the lower house of parliament's Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee on Dec. 3.
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The AfD is now the third largest party in the Bundestag lower house and is polling at around 14%.
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The measure has cleared the lower house and is expected to win approval by the Senate by Dec. 13.
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His nomination for the post drew laughter from lawmakers when it was presented to the lower house of parliament.
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At the 2016 election his government was returned with just 76 of the 150 seats in the lower house.
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Bolivian women make up 85033 percent of its lower house, while Australia's Senate-equivalent includes 41 percent women legislators.
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Cunha was expelled from the lower house last month in an overwhelming vote by his peers in the chamber.
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Temer denied any wrongdoing, and Brazil's lower house of Congress voted against sending the charges to the Supreme Court.
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To remove him from office, a majority of the lower house of Congress still needs to affirm the decision.
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"Shame, shame," a group of politicians yelled in the lower house of parliament, forcing the sitting to be suspended.
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"There are no plans to re-nationalize Alitalia," Tria said in the lower house of parliament during question time.
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Pushed by Italy's populist government, the bill will become law if approved by the lower house of its parliament.
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After positive early campaign polling, Mr. Xenophon and his party ultimately failed to win a single lower-house seat.
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The second bill, which has been drafted in the Senate, also requires approval in the lower house of Congress.
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In the lower house, or Dail, 82 lawmakers said they would vote yes, and 40 no, with 36 undeclared.
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The decree was sharply criticized by lower house speaker Rodrigo Maia, saying it would spread panic in Brazilian society.
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The bill passed India's upper house of parliament later Monday and will be put to the lower house soon.
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Last week, the lower house held a marathon session in which its members gutted a long-awaited anticorruption bill.
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The coalition has about a 10-vote majority in the Senate and a wider margin in the lower house.
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The party's defection last month greatly increased the likelihood the lower house will send her impeachment to the Senate.
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She requires the backing of 171 members of congress - or one-third of the lower house - to block impeachment.
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The ruling bloc has a two-thirds majority in the lower house but lacks one in the upper chamber.
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ABP said 1793,309 voters were surveyed across all 543 seats of the lower house of parliament over Dec-Jan.
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There are currently 35 parties registered in Brazil's electoral court, with 26 represented in the lower house of Congress.
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The motion fell short of the 101 needed in the 200-seat lower house, according to Reuters vote count.
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The lower house of parliament is expected to vote on lifting Babis's immunity at a session starting on Sept.
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However, the bloc is still 22013 seats short of the majority it would need in the parliament's Lower House.
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The decline has not ended speculation that Abe might call a snap lower-house election to renew his mandate.
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In India's Westminster-style model, parties field candidates for seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament.
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The plan was passed by the Senate, parliament's upper house, followed by the lower house a few hours later.
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Sunday's vote count, however, which was for the lower house of Parliament, appeared to end Mr. Thaksin's winning streak.
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Conservative lawmaker David Jones described it as an attempt "to give oxygen" to EU supporters in the lower house.
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The coalition backing Prayuth, which consists of 19 parties, has a small majority in Thailand's lower house of parliament.
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Uttar Pradesh sends 13 lawmakers to the lower house of parliament, the largest of any state in the country.
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On Wednesday, Pakistani citizens will vote on 272 members of the lower house of Pakistan's parliament, the National Assembly.
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Eduardo Bolsonaro -- one of the president's five sons -- is currently a congressman for Sao Paulo state in Brazil's lower house.
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Maranhao had broken with his center-right Progressive Party and voted against Rousseff's impeachment in last month's lower house vote.
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The lower house Wednesday approved the revised deal between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
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A year ago, the research group linked Pawn Storm to hacking attacks on the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.
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The lower house is expected to vote by mid-April on whether to send her for trial in the Senate.
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After federal elections last September, the AfD became the third-largest party in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.
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The market took the retailiation proposed by Russia's lower house of parliament, or the Duma, with a degree of scepticism.
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The speaker of the 650-member House of Commons, which is the lower house, said Trump is not welcome there.
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In 2015 the lower house defeated a plan to introduce such "closed lists" by a vote of 402 to 21.
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Out of 545 seats in India's lower house of parliament, cane farmers are key voters in 164 of the constituencies.
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His father, Maxim Shingarkin, was from 2011 until 2016 a lawmaker in the State Duma, or lower house of parliament.
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The current law, passed in 2015 on the assumption the constitutional reform would succeed, only applies to the lower house.
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The amendment would still have to be approved by the lower house, where it was expected to have strong support.
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Mr Turnbull's government has a majority (of just one seat) in the lower house, and can count on its support.
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The lower house is expected to vote again on the plans as part of a regular bill later on Wednesday.
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The much-anticipated first two days of debate were announced in parliament by Andrea Leadsom, leader of the lower house.
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Just a tenth of MPs in the lower house are women, putting Japan in 158th place out of 193 countries.
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As matters stands, there is one law for the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, and another for the Senate.
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This means that six parties are expected to enter the Bundestag lower house of parliament, up from the current four.
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Parliament's lower house voted on July 13th to let the government pass the reforms by ordinance, without much further debate.
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Then, the lower house passed an income tax reform favored by Massa that would have drastically reduced the state's revenue.
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It's been used in Australia for federal lower house seats since 1918 and in Ireland for presidential elections since 1937.
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Regardless of whether senators reject or approve the measure, it still must go to the lower house for a vote.
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Meanwhile, the lower house would be reduced from 596 to 450, with at least 25% of seats reserved for women.
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It is only the third time in history that the lower house of parliament has finished its five-year term.
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Monday's vote saw 18,000 local and provincial posts up for grabs, including all seats in the lower House of Representatives.
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Less than a fifth of Liberal members of the lower house are women—a smaller proportion than 20 years ago.
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Bolsonaro's government hopes a lower house plenary will pass the retirement bill before Congress goes on recess on July 123.
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The risk of royal displeasure seems to have deterred neutral parties from joining the opposition coalition in the lower house.
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Localities also worry that a property tax might lower house prices—and no one wants to be blamed for that.
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Nigmatulin looked set to become the lower house speaker as previous speaker Baktykozha Izmukhambetov left the parliament earlier on Tuesday.
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Another source of danger is Eduardo Cunha, a former speaker of the lower house who was close to Mr Temer.
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Democratic Centre, Mr Uribe's party, will be the largest in the senate and the second-largest in the lower house.
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Four bills related to GST, passed by the lower house of parliament, would next be presented before the upper house.
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He already controls the lower house, and Sunday's vote could give him the numbers in the upper chamber as well.
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The Lower House of Brazil's Congress voted in mid-April to impeach President Dilma Rousseff for allegedly breaking budget laws.
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Rebellion in the Liberal party Turnbull's government has a majority of just one vote in Australia's lower house of Parliament.
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Macron's upstart Republic on the Move party has now the largest number of seats in the lower house of parliament.
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José Guimarães, the PT's leader in the lower house of Congress, urged supporters to wage "political war" against "coup-mongers".
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Here's how the voting will work: The debate takes place in the lower house of parliament, the House of Commons.
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Kenya is now ranked 86th in the IPU's list with nearly 22 percent of lower house seats held by women.
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The announcement came a week before the Swiss lower house of parliament was due to vote on the compromise package.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last week dissolved the parliament's lower house and called a snap election for Oct. 22.
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The measure passed in the State Duma lower house of parliament on Thursday by a vote of 328 to 104.
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The Parliamentary Agricultural Front, which includes over 260 senators and lower house representatives, formally endorsed their fellow lawmaker on Tuesday.
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In Myanmar, the lower house, upper house and the military faction in parliament each get to propose a presidential candidate.
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Temer needs the support of two-thirds of lower house members to block new charges filed last month by prosecutors.
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Abe called the general election hoping to keep his conservative Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition's majority in the lower house.
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She said the largest alliance in the lower house should be given the right to try to form a government.
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Next, the lower house of Congress will take up a vote against her, on charges that she manipulated government accounts.
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In the next few days the Senate's Speaker, Renan Calheiros, will convene a commission to analyse the lower-house motion.
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The speakers of parliament's lower house and senate and ruling coalition leaders are both currently on trial in separate cases.
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The lower house of Brazil's Congress voted to forward a motion to impeach the president, Dilma Rousseff, to the Senate.
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The lower house of congress stripped Eduardo Cunha, its former speaker, of his mandate over his role in the affair.
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Both he, and the eurosceptic leader of the lower house of parliament, Andrea Leadsom, said they supported the prime minister.
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Mr Xenophon's team could win enough Senate seats to hold bargaining power with whichever major party wins the lower house.
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The supreme court has already indicted his opposite number in the lower house, Eduardo Cunha, for corruption and money-laundering.
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Saturday marked the last day of campaigning for the parliament's lower house seats, and bad weather could deter some voters.
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Analysts say he is likely to win, but with a reduced majority in the lower house and a fractured Senate.
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The liberal Greens party, which has 10 senators and one lawmaker in the lower house, expects to win more seats.
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She lost a vote last month in the lower house of Congress, which advanced the impeachment proceedings to the Senate.
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The only other official listed by the constitution as a successor, the head of the lower house, had resigned earlier.
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This result could give the president roughly three-quarters of lower-house seats in next week's second round of voting.
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The inspiration for this strategy is Eduardo Cunha, the head of Brazil's lower house, who has led the impeachment charge.
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Brazil's lower house of Congress is expected to vote on a landmark overhaul to the country's pension system on Wednesday.
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The lower house backed the part of the budget covering income, which was then sent to President Enrique Pena Nieto.
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The Lower House of Congress is expected later on Tuesday to approve the proposal and send it to the Senate.
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On Wednesday, Italy's lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, also approved a motion to officially recognize the killings as genocide.
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Modi won the biggest mandate in 30 years in the 2014 general election, giving him control of the lower house.
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A further demonstration of the Philippines president's popularity is perhaps reflected in his majority in the lower house of Congress.
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They also fear the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, would lose its ability to veto euro zone aid packages.
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In a super speedy process, the bill was voted on in the lower house of parliament and in the Senate.
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The Parliamentary Agricultural Front (FPA) holds more than a third of the lower house and a quarter of Senate seats.
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Lower house deputy Kuanysh Sultanov, who read out the proposal in parliament, said he expected Nazarbaev to respond within weeks.
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Temer's supporters say they have between 250 and 300 votes in the 513 seat lower house to block a trial.
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Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles, however, insisted that the government was still working toward holding the lower house vote next week.
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Brussels Park, idyllic and wedged between Belgium's Royal Palace and the lower house of the country's Parliament, is also close.
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Here's how the voting will work: The debate takes place in the lower house of parliament, the House of Commons.
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The government hopes it will be passed in the lower house plenary before Congress breaks for recess on July 18.
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Mr. Win Myint stepped down last week as the speaker of Parliament's lower house in anticipation of his new position.
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Brazil's Senate is expected to approve the deal next month, following passage in the lower House of Congress last month.
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If approved by the committee, it would then move to the full chamber and, upon approval, to the lower house.
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The coalition holds 73 of the 151 seats in Australia's lower house, and Labor 69, with 76 needed to govern.
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That bill, called the Muslim Women Protection of Rights on Marriage Bill, passed the lower house of Parliament in December.
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Tajikistan uses a mixed system in which 41 of the 63 lower-house seats are contested in single-seat constituencies.
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The Russian State Duma, the lower house of parliament, was expected to approve Mishustin later on Thursday as prime minister.
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The party's leader in the lower house, Aguinaldo Ribeiro, told reporters in Brasilia the majority of his party supported impeachment.
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Yet only about 20-odd in the lower house and 13 in the upper were reportedly prepared to join him.
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"North Korea's nuclear tests are a flagrant violation of all international conditions," Merkel told the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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Mr. Akimoto, 48, is a member of the lower house of Parliament, where he was an advocate of legalizing casinos.
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Mr. Trump's visit coincided with the judicial legislation, which was already awaiting a vote in the Sejm, the lower house.
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The lower house of Parliament approved draft legislation that would prevent civil servants from wearing full face veils at work.
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In April 2015, it was ratified by the lower house of Congress and is now awaiting consideration by the Senate.
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More than two-thirds of the Senate and lower house backed impeaching Rousseff, whose popularity plummeted amid the economic crisis.
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The Senate would have a mostly consultative role, and most bills would only need the approval of the lower house.
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But it has yet to be approved by the lower house and critics say it is still far too little.
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"Then we'll rock Germany" and become the only "real opposition party" in the lower house after September's election, she said.
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But legislation for the latter two items is stuck in parliament despite the government's large majority in the lower house.
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The drive will begin this month with a motion in parliament's lower house, two lawmakers behind the campaign told Reuters.
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In India, about 12 percent of the 545 members of the Lok Sabha, or lower house of Parliament, are women.
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The B.J.P. won a majority in the lower house of parliament, making Modi the most powerful Prime Minister in decades.
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The budget now moves on to the lower house where it must be approved by the end of the year.
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Of the 513 members of the lower house in Congress, 303 face charges or are being investigated for serious crimes.
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Podemos has 67 lawmakers while the Socialists account for 84 of the 350 seats in the lower house of parliament.
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Yet Mexico's lower house passed the bill after minimal debate last Thursday and the Senate could approve it this week.
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The lower house of the French parliament has voted in favor of the new tax on tech giants without any modification.
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Le Maire told France's lower house of parliament that he will look to guarantee the industrial future of the Belfort site.
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Sure enough, Mr Bolsonaro recently shepherded through Brazil's lower house a pension reform that is vital to the country's fiscal stability.
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And in recent days the lower house of parliament passed an amendment to lower the voting age from 21 to 18.
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Now that the bill has been approved by the lower house, it moves on for a vote in the upper house.
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The amendments passed 388 to 25 with five abstentions following an emotional session in the Sejm, the lower house of parliament.
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In May, the lower house of Congress approved a watered-down version of the bill, but it still needs Senate approval.
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There are 575 seats in the lower house of the national parliament up for grabs and 136 in the upper house.
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Today, the lower house of Japan's governing body passed what Japan Times described as a "rare resolution" asking for Maruyama's resignation.
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The decision prompted four other lawmakers in similar predicaments to Gallagher to resign, triggering by-elections for their lower-house seats.
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On Thursday, Nigeria's lower house of parliament approved a motion to authorize Buhari to offer Jammeh asylum if he steps down.
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Francesco D'Uva, parliamentary party leader of the 5-Star in the lower house, made the pledge after meeting his PD counterpart.
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The bill passed its first legislative hurdle last June, when it was approved by the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies.
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If the lower house approves the amendment by October this year, the next elections could be held under the new rules.
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A debate will follow, expected to last several days, ending with a vote in the lower house on approving the deal.
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Just 9.5% of the members of Japan's lower house are women, putting the country 155th in the world by that measure.
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"Radical changes in the treatment of regional budgets are long overdue," she told the lower house of parliament late last year.
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Rio de Janeiro (CNN)A congressional committee in Brazil's lower house on Monday voted in favor of impeaching President Dilma Rousseff.
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The Brazilian lower house is in the process of analyzing an impeachment bid launched by Speaker of the House Eduardo Cunha.
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The workers' rights bill was approved by the labor commission in Mexico's lower house of Congress with 19 votes on Wednesday.
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If they are suspended but decide to keep their seats, the number of voting lawmakers in the lower house will fall.
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A motion to impeach him must be accepted by the speaker of the lower house, Rodrigo Maia, a staunch presidential ally.
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It will be either the largest or second-largest force in the lower House of Congress, depending on the opposition's coalition.
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It's not clear whether that will be enough to allow them to take back control of the lower house of Congress.
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It was largely thanks to their efforts that a bill to decriminalise abortion was passed last month by the lower house.
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A special impeachment commission concurred Wednesday, recommending that the lower house of Brazil's congress go ahead with impeachment proceedings against Rousseff.
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Already one of their own, Chuan Leekpai, a former prime minister, has secured the job of speaker of the lower house.
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The lower House of Representatives approved the bill on Sunday after a royal decree ordered parliament to hold an extraordinary session.
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It altered the formula for allocating seats, thereby depriving the opposition coalition of a majority in the lower house of parliament.
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Of the 74 candidates for the party is backing, 23 are running for Senate seats and 51 for the lower house.
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Mr Prayuth will then need to persuade a majority of the lower house to back whatever plans his government may have.
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But to get anything done, the generals need a majority in the lower house, which has the power to block legislation.
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The legislation was adopted in the Senate on Friday, a day after the lower house, the National Assembly, also approved it.
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The lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, will vote on the extension on Thursday as the suspension is due to expire.
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That means his party has a bigger share of the total, since the lower house has been slimmed by ten seats.
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The MP was Barnaby Joyce, the deputy prime minister, whose ejection has cost the government its majority in the lower house.
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Rodrigo Maia, the Speaker of the lower house of congress, predicts that the number of parties could eventually fall to six.
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Setya Novanto, a former Speaker of the lower house of Indonesia's parliament, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption.
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With their votes in the bag, Mr Prayuth will need just 126 votes from the 500-seat lower house to triumph.
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The lower house has sat for 12 years and counting; the Guurti has sat unelected since it was formed in 1993.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - The lower house of Brazil's Congress will delay a vote on a bill trimming social security benefits until Feb.
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The congressman in charge of the lower-house committee dealing with pensions recommended changes to the government's draft on June 13th.
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"I have just heard that the deal with Italy has also been agreed," Seehofer told the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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It forced it through the lower house of parliament by decree last month and aims to make it law by July.
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As political intrigue ramps up in the lower house, the interim president has also been ruffling feathers for his controversial cuts.
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A new far-left group, akin to Spain's Podemos, won 20 of the 155 seats in the lower house of congress.
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Lawmakers in Temer's alliance say they have the one-third of lower-house votes required to block any charges against Temer.
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The government survived two no-confidence votes Tuesday in the lower house of parliament, where Macron&aposs centrist party has control.
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Passed by Russia's lower house today, one bill would punish people who post disrespectful content about the nation and its officials.
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Modi's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is projected to comfortably get a majority in the lower house of parliament, exit polls showed.
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Women accounted for 10.2 percent of Japan's lower house of parliament and 20.7 percent of the upper house, the data show.
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He also told parliament that he was "not thinking at all" about dissolving the lower house and calling a snap election.
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Russia's lower house of parliament on Friday approved an investigation into the operations of U.S. news organizations in Russia, Reuters reported.
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They are unlikely to move forward, as opening the process must be approved by lower house Speaker Maia, a Temer ally.
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Several top party figures, including the speaker of the lower house Eduardo Cunha, are under investigation in connection with the scandal.
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The proposal is headed to a lower house floor vote later on Wednesday and a possible Senate vote by next week.
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With the popular protests gathering momentum, the lower house of Congress moved forward with an impeachment procedure that had been languishing.
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When she was first elected to parliament, in 1993, she was the only female lawmaker in the more powerful lower house.
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The BJP won 282 seats in the 2014 general election, giving it a simple majority in the lower house of Parliament.
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France, with about the same population, has 577 members in its lower house; America, five times as populous, has just 503.
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Labour fielded eight candidates for the authority's 100-seat lower house - standing against bankers, lawyers and accountants - and won five seats.
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In a speech to the lower house on Monday, Mr. Maranhão defended his decision, calling it an effort to "save democracy."
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A lack of a strong opposition helped his ruling coalition government retain its super majority in the lower house of parliament.
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Normally, half the Senate's 76 members face voters at the same time as the lower house in its three-year cycle.
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The measure still needs approval from the lower house of Congress, which is likely to vote on it early next week.
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The LDP and its coalition already hold just over two-thirds of the lower house, with 326 out of 475 seats.
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She already lost a vote last month in the lower house of Congress, which advanced the impeachment proceedings to the Senate.
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This month, Brazil's lower house of Congress approved the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff over accusations that she misused state money.
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The budget was passed by the Senate, the upper chamber, and by lawmakers in the lower House of Representatives shortly afterwards.
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The government can overrule the upper house when the legislation returns to the lower house for a final reading in July.
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The lower house of parliament, or Duma, gave the green light to a bill proposed by Aksakov in the first reading.
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Here's how the voting will work: The debate is taking place in the lower house of parliament, the House of Commons.
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This means that the political make up of the Senate could very well be different from that of the lower house.
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The Senate can request to review other laws, but again, any changes it proposes can be ignored by the lower house.
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Also in politics, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he would be dissolving the lower house of parliament on Sept.
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The lower house of parliament in September narrowly backed a ban on face veils, a step widely supported in opinion polls.
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The party's leader in the lower house, Aguinaldo Ribeiro, told reporters in Brasília that the majority of his party supported impeachment.
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The Senate will have to reconsider technical aspects of the legislation that differ from the text approved by the lower house.
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When she was first elected to Parliament in 1993, she was the only female lawmaker in the more powerful lower house.
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It means a full vote on her impeachment will now take place in the lower house on 17 or 18 April.
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Gandhi has been a member of India's lower house of parliament since 2004 and is contesting this election from two seats.
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The Wisconsin map has left Republicans with 63 of 99 seats in the lower house of an otherwise politically balanced state.
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It ranks 403 out of 193 countries, with women representing just 10.1 percent of its lower house, the House of Representatives.
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The NLD nominated Htin Kyaw, who became a member of the party just two months ago, as its lower house candidate.
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MIGRANT ACCORD The prime minister won the obligatory vote of confidence by 343 to 343 in the 630-seat lower house.
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Modi came to power in 2014, when his party, the BJP, won a majority in the lower house with 282 seats.
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The midterm elections last week involved half of the Senate, nearly 300 seats in the lower house and numerous local positions.
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The bill was approved by upper house lawmakers after the lower house had voted in favor of the legislation on Thursday.
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Mr. Conte will speak again before a confidence vote in the Lower House of Parliament tomorrow, which is also a formality.
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But John Bercow, speaker of the lower house, declared it a "constitutional outrage", as did Philip Hammond, Britain's former finance minister.
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Italy's new government led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte seeks to win a confidence vote in the lower house of Parliament.
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Eduardo Cunha, the powerful former speaker of the lower house of Congress, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in March.
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Lawmakers in France's National Assembly, France's lower house of Parliament, will on Monday begin debating a draft national GAFA tax law.
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In a surprise move, an Italian lawmaker proposed to his girlfriend ahead of a discussion in the normally volatile lower house.
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In a marathon session, the lower house rewrote the legislation to curb the power of prosecutors and judges guiding graft inquiries.
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Besides no longer having a majority in the lower house of parliament, the government does not control the upper house Senate.
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Brazil President Dilma Rousseff suffered a humiliating loss in a crucial impeachment vote in the lower house of Congress on Sunday.
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Riding Bolsonaro's coattails in last year's election, PSL politicians made it the second-largest party in the lower house of Congress.
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The draft law, already approved by the lower house of parliament, would allow judges who question planned reforms to be disciplined.
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Dalits now have a chamber of commerce representing their interests and more than 80 members in the lower house of parliament.
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Temer has repeatedly denied the accusations and the lower house of Congress voted against him standing trial at the Supreme Court.
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The State Duma, the Russian lower house of parliament, has already given its backing to his reforms in a preliminary vote.
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The Martial Artist: Andrei Skoch The Treasury Department sanctioned Andrei Skoch, a deputy in the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.
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In draft amendments submitted to the State Duma lower house, Putin offered a glimpse of how his reforms look on paper.
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In Poland, the ruling Law and Justice party retained its majority in elections to the Sejm, the lower house of parliament.
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The bill passed in the lower house, the Lok Sabha, a few minutes after midnight, following a few hours of debate.
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And Mr. Modi's party has the numbers: With allies, it controls nearly two-thirds of the seats in the lower house.
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That was overturned by members of the lower house on Monday, who voted by 331 to 286 to remove the amendment.
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Brazil's lower house of Congress on Tuesday approved an Open Skies agreement with the United States that includes the fifth liberty.
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Htin Kyaw's replacement is widely expected to be fellow NLD loyalist Win Myint, who is currently speaker of the lower house.
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This became evident early on in the process, as the vote to initiate proceedings in the lower house of Congress showed.
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The Congress was reduced to a humiliating 44 seats out of a total of 545 in the lower house of Parliament.
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The bill, which was passed by the lower house earlier in April, aligns Mexico with international treaties, according to Mexican lawmakers.
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More than half the country's senators and one-third of the lawmakers in the lower House are being investigated for crimes.
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Senators could also decide to amend parts of the bill, in which case it would go back to the lower house.
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It appears to be the first time since 1941 that the government had lost a key vote in the lower house.
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With the support of the Communist party, Babis's minority government controls 108 votes in the 200-member lower house of parliament.
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In April, Germany's lower house of parliament approved a draft law preventing civil servants from wearing face veils while at work.
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From there the case was opened in congress and eventually sent to a plenary vote in the lower house in May.
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Abe said on Wednesday he was not considering a snap lower house poll but speculation remains that he might call one.
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Separately, the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, will start discussing a bill on Friday that aims to modify the Constitution.
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Those being investigated include the presidents of the Senate and the lower house, and many of the leaders of Temer's governing coalition.
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Abe's bloc, which comprises the LDP and junior coalition partner Komeito party, already has a two-thirds majority in the lower house.
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Morrison's Liberal-led coalition and center-left Labor are vying for a majority share of 151 lower house seats to form government.
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Preliminary election results show that United Russia is on track to claim 343 seats in the 450-member lower house of parliament.
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Backed by a narrow majority in the 350-seat lower house, Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez appears set to become prime minister-designate.
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In March, the lower house launched an investigation, arguing that reducing the initial fine of $13 billion would require changing the law.
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Pollsters project the year-old Republic On The Move party will win a crushing majority, perhaps three quarters of the lower house.
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If changes are made during that debate, as is expected, it will then be debated by the lower house on June 20.
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The AfD, which says Islam is incompatible with the German constitution, is now the third biggest party in the Bundestag lower house.
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He said it is likely the deal will be rejected by the House of Commons, the lower house of the U.K. Parliament.
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His government agreed with Congressional leaders on Thursday to delay the lower house vote on the bill until the week of Dec.
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The Socialist party is pivotal to breaking the impasse because it holds 85 out of the 350 seats in parliament's lower house.
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Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies have a comfortable majority in the lower house, but not in the upper house.
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The draft law, backed by Kremlin loyalists, has been approved at first reading in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.
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The lower house of Congress voted 251-233 on Wednesday to shelve the corruption case against Temer, ensuring his survival in office.
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For Rousseff to be impeached, at least 342 (two-thirds) of the 513 members of the lower house must support the move.
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The impeachment proposal will now be taken to the full session of the lower house, where representatives will begin debating on Friday.
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After focusing on one group from the Lower House of Congress, we're now adapting the same predictive models to the Upper House.
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True, women's share of seats has risen, but slowly: 50 years ago the proportion of women in the lower house was 6%.
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Nancy Pelosi (pictured left), the party's leader in the lower house, has ruled out an effort to impeach the president for now.
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The government plans to ask lawmakers in the directly-elected lower house of parliament to overturn some of the changes next week.
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Brazil's lower house speaker, Rodrigo Maia, said on Twitter he would create "an external committee" to monitor the burning of the rainforest.
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West Bengal, particularly, had been an important battleground for Modi because it sends 42 elected representatives to the lower house of parliament.
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The BJP's best electoral performance under Mr Vajpayee saw it win 182 of the 545 seats in the lower house of parliament.
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If the bill passes in the upper house, it must still go before the lower house, where Renzi has more solid backing.
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He may not be able to rally the 172 votes, of 513 in the lower house, he needs to avoid being tried.
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The amendment won wide support in the lower house and is awaiting the final vote after minor changes by the upper house.
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The bill will then pass to the lower house, where Mr. Renzi's party has a wider majority and it should pass easily.
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Britain's lower house of parliament voted 432-202 against May's deal, the worst parliamentary defeat for a government in recent British history.
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The new prime minister is Pedro Sánchez, of the Socialist party, which controls only 24% of the seats in the lower house.
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The constitutional amendment was approved by the lower house of parliament last year but had stuck for months in the upper house.
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That was why, when Trump's election victory was announced in the lower house of Russia's parliament, the lawmakers broke into spontaneous applause.
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French lawmakers at the National Assembly, the country's lower house of parliament, cast 20173 votes in favor, 213 against and 74 abstentions.
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However, Mr Biedron is, unusually for conservative Poland, an openly gay politician, the first ever elected to the Sejm, parliament's lower house.
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That's because there are two houses — a lower house (a Chamber of Deputies) and an upper house (a Senate of the Republic).
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So uncertainty reigns in the main opposition, which currently consists of just 135 centre-right MPs in a lower house of 577.
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A crucifix hangs prominently in the lower house of the Polish parliament, despite legal efforts by secular politicians to have it removed.
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Claudio Borghi, the League deputy who chairs the lower house budget committee, is a former managing director of Deutsche Bank in Italy.
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He is now a member of the Christian Social Party, which has just 11 of the 513 seats in the lower house.
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The government has said it wants to use its majority in the lower house to overturn changes made by the upper house.
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Expedito Netto, from Rondonia, said if it were the leader of the lower house being impeached, he would also vote in favor.
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The size of the lower house would be reduced, from 596 to 450, with at least 25% of seats reserved for women.
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Only five out of the 150 members of the lower house (the House of Representatives) are from neither the coalition nor Labor.
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An injunction filed by deputies on Wednesday overrode this decision, and allowed him to take up the presidency of the lower house.
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One survey, taken before the lower house voted on the charges, found that 81% of Brazilians want Mr Temer to face trial.
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The lower house of Malaysia's parliament passed a bill that would impose prison sentences and fines on those who spread "fake news".
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The lawmakers were sworn in at a brief ceremony in the 342-seat National Assembly, the decision-making lower house of parliament.
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Ruling Social Democrat Party leader and parliament lower house speaker Liviu Dragnea is currently on trial in an abuse of power case.
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French lawmakers at the National Assembly, the country's lower house of parliament, cast 20173 votes in favour, 213 against and 74 abstentions.
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In the last poll, 39 percent of investors expected a Lower House vote in the first half of the year, probably June.
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Lawmakers are likely to try to overrule the president and need 101 votes in the 200-seat lower house to do so.
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Claudio Borghi, the League head of the lower house budget committee, told Reuters he was skeptical Salvini had used the word "irreversible".
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A snap early election could only be held if 120 members of the 200-seat lower house agreed on calling the vote.
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The number of lawmakers - at both the lower house National Assembly and the Senate - will be cut by 30 percent, Philippe said.
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Each of those charges will require a vote by the full lower house on whether or not the president should face trial.
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The lower house of the U.K. Parliament, the House of Commons, is scheduled to carry out a series of votes this week.
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Salvini responded that in return the League would support a 5-Star candidate as speaker of the lower house Chamber of Deputies.
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It is followed by Bolivia in Latin America where women hold 22013 percent of lower house seats then Cuba at 286 percent.
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Temer has served three times as speaker of Brazil`s turbulent lower house and built a reputation for moderation and consensus building.
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Liberal opposition parties have no seats in the 450-seat lower house of parliament, with only one independent lawmaker seen as sympathetic.
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A plenary session of the lower house would then need to vote on whether to send Rousseff for trial in the Senate.
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Hector Recalde, leader of the FPV in the lower house, told reporters "more or less a dozen" legislators had left the party.
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A 65-member impeachment committee of the lower house will now formally begin studying whether there are sufficient grounds to remove her.
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The lower house of Congress on Tuesday started to analyze the draft amendment that limits public spending to the rate of inflation.
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The bill has already been approved by the lower house of Congress and will likely pass the Senate within a few weeks.
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Should they succeed, senators must then approve, by an absolute majority of 41 out of 81, to accept the lower-house motion.
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It is likely to accept for consideration any impeachment motion referred by the lower house, the chamber's Speaker, Renan Calheiros, reportedly said.
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The measure was part of a broader finance bill approved by the lower house last week, meaning it now becomes a law.
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The new regulations mean MPs' infants will no longer be considered as "visitors" banned from entering the chamber of the lower house.
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In the lower house, attention now shifts to Waldir Maranhão, an obscure ally of Mr. Cunha poised to take over as speaker.
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The lower house in U.K. Parliament, the House of Commons, voted earlier this month 432-202 to reject May's proposed Brexit deal.
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The PRI was seen winning 18 percent of the vote in the lower house, with two allies together mustering another 3 percent.
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Under the Dutch political system, parties generally form coalitions with a majority of seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament.
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The motion has been raised in the lower house and, if endorsed, would require the approval of two thirds of the Senate.
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Confusion reigned in Brazil after the new speaker of the lower house of Congress annulled the vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff.
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The opposition leader in the lower house of Congress, Alessandro Molon, said Galvao's departure was a sign of an increasingly authoritarian president.
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The ruling party then moved the PIA Corporation Conversion Bill 2015 in the lower house of parliament in January, where it passed.
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When Kenny was first elected to the lower house in 1975, Coveney was 3-years-old and Varadkar was not even born.
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Parliament's lower house, which has the final word on the matter, voted in favor of the bill by 412 votes to 74.
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The brand's clothing is also banned in a number of German schools, soccer stadiums, and even in Germany's lower house of parliament.
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The motion failed when all government lawmakers in the lower house of parliament backed their embattled leader despite a prolonged Labor attack.
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The campaigners delivered an impressive win in the lower house of Congress, just shortly after Ireland's landslide popular vote to legalize abortion.
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But the ANC, which has around 58% of lawmakers in the lower house, is divided over what should be done with Mkhwebane.
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The labor reform bill, the first major overhaul of labor rules in seven decades, has already been approved by the lower house.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Lawmakers in Argentina&aposs lower house say they will vote next month on legislation that would legalize elective abortion.
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One of its most powerful leaders, Eduardo Cunha, the speaker of the lower house of Congress, is resisting calls to step down.
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In March, the lower house launched an investigation into whether reducing the initial fine of $5.2 billion would require changing the law.
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Trudeau is promising major reforms to the 105-member Senate, which is officially charged with reviewing legislation passed by the lower house.
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Reduce number of parliamentarians in the lower house to 400 lawmakers from 630, and in the upper house to 200 from 315.
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Speaking before Russia's lower house of parliament, Medvedev said the new sanctions were an attempt to capture global markets for U.S. companies.
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A draft law criminalizing homophobic attacks was approved by Brazil's lower house of Congress, and in 2006 introduced to the upper house.
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They voted for a new national Congress, including 128 Senate seats and 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, Mexico's lower house.
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In April, Malaysia's lower house of Parliament passed a bill outlawing fake news, the first measure of its kind in the world.
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In 2013, Mr. Brown testified before the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, in support of legislation opposing adoption by gay couples.
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India's parliament has two houses: the lower house, known as the Lok Sabha, and the upper house, known as the Rajya Sabha.
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And for the first time, he may now be held to account by an elected lower house with a sizable opposition bloc.
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The Law and Justice Party has turned the Polish lower house of Parliament, or Sejm, into a rubber stamp for its agenda.
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Conservatives from his Social Liberal Party won 52 seats, up from eight, making it the second largest party in the lower house.
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The BJP would have the first back-to-back majority in the lower house of parliament for a single party since 1984.
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Voters will effectively choose India's next leader by filling more than 500 seats in the lower house of Parliament, the Lok Sabha.
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This month's lower-house election, called early by Mr. Abe in an effort to consolidate his power, provides an opportunity for her.
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Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht told the Bundestag - Germany's lower house of parliament - that her ministry would begin work on drafting a law.
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Koizumi, who first won election to parliament's lower house in 2009, regularly tops opinion polls as the most suitable successor to Abe.
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In 2009 - the LDP was knocked out of power for three years - he won a lower house seat vacated by his father.
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Last month, Ms. Merkel's own party ousted Volker Kauder, one of her closest allies in the Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament.
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The president can also appoint and dismiss the prime minister, albeit with the consent of the State Duma, Russia&aposs lower house.
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The government has also adopted prudently tight fiscal policies; an overhaul package recently passed the lower house with a two-thirds majority.
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He was elected the next year to the lower house of Parliament as the Socialist representative for the district that includes Évry.
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The lower house of Congress blocked a corruption charge against Temer earlier this month, saving him from trial by the Supreme Court.
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And lower house rural independent Bob Katter described any sale of Ausgrid to Chinese interests as "imperialism and colonialism at its worst".
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Lawmakers in the lower house approved the proposal on a vote of 420 to 29, and it now moves to the Senate.
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Ms. Le Pen's National Front has two representatives in the lower house of Parliament; Mr. Macron's party, created last year, has none.
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Luigi Di Maio, the anti-establishment M5S party leader, put forward Roberto Fico to be elected as speaker of the lower house.
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But PiS will be able to overrule any amendments or vetoes, thanks to its absolute majority in the more powerful lower house.
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The bill, which would solidify Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist agenda, is expected to easily pass the lower house of Parliament.
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"The monopoly of the U.S. dollar is not reliable enough, it is dangerous for many," Putin told Russia's lower house of parliament.
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It created a runoff system between national candidates that awarded the winner a bonus of seats in the lower house of Parliament.
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And in 2016, he ousted the speaker of the lower house, Eduardo Cunha, who had orchestrated the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.
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In India, about 12 percent of the more than 500 members of the Lok Sabha, or lower house of Parliament, are women.
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The reform plan will be sent to NATO headquarters in Brussels a day after parliament's lower house confirms Tegeltija as prime minister.
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The bill lays out rules for lower house elections and is one of four that need to take effect before the vote.
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But the Constitution sets no quota for military seats in the lower house, known as the Pyithu Hluttaw, only a maximum number.
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Editor's Note: India's general elections for the lower house of the Parliament started on April 11 and will conclude on May 23.
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In the directly elected lower house of parliament this will culminate in a vote to determine whether parliament has approved the deal.
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Brazil's lower house speaker, Rodrigo Maia, said on Monday he regretted Levy's departure from BNDES, though Brazilian markets barely reacted to the resignation.
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It has a big majority in the lower house of parliament and is edging closer to control of the upper house, as well.
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The lower house of Brazil's congress approved a reform of the country's unsustainably generous pension system by a vote of 379 to 131.
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The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won seats in the lower house of parliament for the first time in the Sept.
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Temer defeated a first corruption charge from Janot, when the lower house of Congress voted not to allow it to proceed to trial.
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On Friday, Social Democrat leader and lower house speaker Liviu Dragnea said parliament should meet to approve the withdrawal as soon as possible.
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Calheiros was second in line to Brazil's presidency after the speaker of the lower house, as the nation currently has no vice president.
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A party needs to win 272 seats out of 543 in the Lok Sabha, or lower house of parliament to form a government.
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Anton Morozov, a member of the Russian lower house of parliament's international affairs committee, and two other Russian lawmakers visited Pyongyang on Oct.
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Vote counting for the upper house Senate resumed on Monday but counting for the lower House of Representatives does not restart until Tuesday.
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The speaker of the lower house of Britain's parliament said he did not support the idea of Trump addressing parliament during the visit.
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The motion to impeach Rousseff was first initiated in December, and in April the lower house of Congress voted overwhelmingly to begin proceedings.
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On January 25th the judges struck down key provisions of the electoral law for the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house, as unconstitutional.
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The remodelled chamber could suggest changes to legislation approved in the lower house, but only block a small number of mostly constitutional bills.
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In a news release, Maranhao said the impeachment process should be returned by the Senate so that the lower house can vote again.
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Any changes made by the lords will require approval from the lower house, and the whole process could take until May to complete.
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Twinned with a new, two-round voting system for the lower house, the changes should finally make Italy a governable country, Renzi says.
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The provision, which is part of a larger internet regulation bill, was adopted by the lower house of the French Parliament on Thursday.
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However, 91% of the lower-house deputies under investigation plan to seek re-election, according to O Estado de S. Paulo, a newspaper.
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Lawmakers could also challenge it themselves and demand that it be put to a vote immediately in the lower house, the experts said.
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Admittedly, Mr Abe would need to win both a party-leadership contest and a lower-house election to stay in power that long.
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Opinion polls show the AfD winning enough votes to enter the Bundestag lower house of parliament for the first time after September's election.
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