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"parliament" Definitions
  1. [countable] the group of people who are elected to make and change the laws of a country
  2. Parliament [uncountable] the parliament of some countries, including the United Kingdom. In the UK, Parliament consists of the House of Commons and the House of Lords
  3. (also Parliament) [countable, uncountable] a particular period during which a parliament is working; Parliament as it exists between one general election and the next

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We will have a very rational parliament, a less factional parliament, a more expert and technocrat parliament.
Opening the Scottish Parliament when Scotland got its first Scottish Parliament in 300 years, and we were invited to open the parliament celebration.
We don't need a eurozone parliament, you have the European Parliament.
Parliament on lockdown: The U.K. Parliament building was put on lockdown.
Tonin told parliament that President Borut Pahor and parliament have until Aug.
"We expect the UK parliament to vote ahead of the European parliament so we fully expect parliament to vote well before March 2019," she added.
The parliament session's suspension is noteworthy because parliament enacts the independence law. 5.
Being on 20 to 30 news channels, the UK Parliament, the EU parliament.
It was at the Republic Square near the Parliament, not outside the Parliament.
Zuckerberg's meeting with the European Parliament can be streamed via the European Parliament website.
Moreover, if the president is removed from office by parliament, parliament is dissolved too.
When we were told Brexit meant taking back powers for Parliament, no one told my constituents this meant the French parliament and the German parliament, not our own.
"You may criticize the parliament, yes, but the Commission does not control the parliament, it's the parliament that should be controlling the Commission," he said, to scattered applause.
Parliament was the "high court," the men Parliament impeached were of the "highest rank"; offenses that Parliament described as "high" were public offenses with consequences for the nation.
The plan asks parliament to distribute the president's powers among the government, parliament and judiciary.
"Parliament is our boss ... we will obviously take the recommendations of parliament," she told Reuters.
Dveri has never been in parliament, while DSS has been out of parliament since 2014.
He still leads the Esquerra Republicana party, which recently became the largest Catalan party within the Spanish Parliament, and was elected to both the Spanish Parliament and the European Parliament.
The British parliament, which is sovereign, could block another referendum on independence in the national parliament.
Income from the Houses of Parliament gift shop helps to offset the costs of running Parliament.
"The Conservatives want a Conservative majority in parliament, not a Brexit majority in parliament," Farage said.
Despite Vox's surge, the left-right balance in parliament has changed little from the last parliament.
Members of Parliament return to work next week at the construction site known as Parliament Hill.
Monday: Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried to cut Parliament out of Brexit, but Parliament struck back.
A parliament news department official said they would answer reporters' questions during next month's parliament session.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS The bloc will vote to elect a new European Parliament on May 23-26.
"What's the point of a parliament which is not a parliament?" is a common refrain in Jordan.
But there are different responsibilities for government and Parliament and Parliament can't tie government's hands in negotiations.
In addition to approval by the British Parliament, it will also need ratification by the European Parliament.
From there, we ran to Parliament Square -- a public square outside the Houses of Parliament in London.
Parliament wouldn't budge; enough Brexit skeptics still sat in Parliament, and, together, they could foil a deal.
If the Parliament loses confidence in the government, the Parliament is dissolved and new elections are called.
The party's no-confidence motion against Zuma in parliament will be held on April 18, parliament said.
Guy Verhofstadt, a member of the European Parliament from Belgium, called for an emergency statement by the parliament.
In total, the United Kingdom elects 73 MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) to the 751-seat parliament.
Rome, European Parliament President Antonio Tajani attends G7 Parliament Presidents (2300 GMT); followed by news conference (210 GMT).
National governments, not the parliament, put up candidates for the commission, though the parliament has to approve them.
"He has to listen to parliament and parliament is clearly opposed to a no-deal exit," he said.
He has testified as and expert before the US Congress, the United Nations, Canadian Parliament and U.K. Parliament.
Pioneering Australian senator breastfeeds at mic in parliament Pioneering Australian senator breastfeeds at mic in parliament Australian Sen.
But when you do both, and mix them, like Parliament-Funkadelic—Parliament was soft, and Funkadelic was hardcore.
Members of Parliament pushed the vote through Wednesday, a day after Parliament seized control to do exactly this.
LONDON (Reuters) - Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay will make a statement to parliament on "EU Exit- Article 50" in parliament on Monday, the government's leader in parliament, Andrea Leadsom, said via an official Twitter feed.
"At the request of 54 members of parliament, the leader of parliament has agreed to hold a special session to discuss the problems, solutions and recent developments in Basra," a statement from parliament said.
In a letter sent on Sunday, parliament speaker Karu Jayasuriya urged the president to protect Wickremesinghe's rights and privileges "until any other person emerges from within the Parliament as having secure confidence of the Parliament".
Worried that Rivlin would ask another member of parliament to form a government, Netanyahu sought to dissolve the parliament.
Police said access to the parliament building was restricted by the government because the scheduled parliament session was canceled.
Yildirim, speaking in parliament, also said the coup plotters were not soldiers but terrorists who had targeted the parliament.
The parliament also elects the commission's president, a position with much more power than any in the parliament proper.
Approving the budget in parliament could take another month, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was quoted saying in local newspapers.
"This deal should never have been signed or brought to parliament for ratification," party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis told parliament.
Parliament Speaker John Bercow said proroguing parliament would never happen and other candidates have criticised Raab's stance as undemocratic.
Separately, a member of parliament reached by telephone told Reuters that lawmakers were hiding in shelters at the parliament.
Parliament Speaker John Bercow said proroguing parliament would never happen and other candidates have criticized Raab's stance as undemocratic.
Conservative members of parliament will begin whittling the list down this week with a series of votes in parliament.
"Parliament wishes to acknowledge the nomination of Mr Brian Molefe, to fill a vacancy on the North West list of ANC (African National Congress) Members of Parliament," spokesman for parliament Moloto Mothapo said in a statement.
LONDON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Brexit minister Stephen Barclay will make a statement to parliament on "EU Exit- Article 50" in parliament on Monday, the government's leader in parliament, Andrea Leadsom, said via an official Twitter feed.
By quitting and leaving parliament unable to find a successor, he forced parliament to dissolve and hold a new vote.
Parliament Secretary General Ahmed Mohamed told Reuters that parliament intended to reinstate the 12 legislators as required by the court.
If Joyce does resign from parliament, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will lose his razor-thin one seat majority in parliament.
A lot of this debate is happening in Parliament, so we have an outreach program to members of Parliament [MPs].
Members of parliament meet Trudeau every Wednesday but did not do so last week, when Parliament was on a break.
The president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, urged the ECB to involve the parliament in decisions on bad loans.
"If he is going to address Parliament ... then flying him from Parliament Square again would be perfect," Murray told CNN.
"There are different responsibilities for government and Parliament and Parliament can't tie the government's hands in negotiations," she said Wednesday.
Members of Parliament had earlier approved Johnson's Brexit deal in principle but rejected his timetable for passing it through Parliament.
Ryszard Terlecki, a deputy speaker in the Parliament, noted that elections for the European Parliament were coming up this month.
As someone who is forever visiting Parliament to annoy one MP or another, I'd been through Parliament Square many times.
In another development, the speaker of the Tanzanian parliament banned female lawmakers from wearing fake nails and eyelashes in parliament.
It echoed much of what Cox had already told Parliament, though it still intensified the debate in Parliament on Wednesday.
ALDE is the fourth-biggest party in the European Parliament and has courted Macron, whose Republic on the Move party has no lawmakers in the European Parliament as it was created after the last EU parliament election.
"Gove said: "That letter was sent because Parliament required it to be sent but... Parliament can insist the letter was sent but Parliament can't change the prime minister's mind, Parliament can't change the government's policy or determination and the prime minister is very clear — and so are European Union leaders — they want this done.
Speaking in parliament, Bercow said ministers could have been "considerably clearer" in their statements to parliament and criticised the government for withholding information about the economic impact of Brexit, but stopped short of saying they had misled parliament.
EU countries, the European Parliament, and the Japanese parliament will have to give their assent before the trade pact can start.
Thursday's vote in the Federal Parliament was a landslide, with all but four members of parliament supporting the change or abstaining.
He is a member of the European parliament but has failed in his efforts to win election to the British parliament.
Last week, the king asked the cabinet to open a dialogue on pension reform with parliament, Bahraini members of parliament said.
Charles Tannock, another British member of the European Parliament, said on Twitter that he was locked down inside the Parliament building.
The Macedonian Parliament approved the name change last week, and the Greek Parliament is to consider it in the coming days.
After storming the parliament, Bukele said a prayer from a seat normally occupied by the president of the parliament, Mario Ponce.
Johnson's ploy to get around Parliament is perhaps understandable, given that Parliament has been incredibly frustrating throughout the entire Brexit process.
However, the bill can still be deliberated on in parliament if the movers bring it back to the floor of parliament.
"Most probably the next parliament will be a parliament with no majority… It may be a situation like the one we have seen in Spain," Giampaolo Galli, a member of parliament for Renzi's Democratic Party, told CNBC on Tuesday.
Senegal comes sixth, with a parliament that is 43% women; and South Africa is joint seventh, with 42% of its parliament women.
"If a government cannot get its legislation through parliament, it must got to the country for a new mandate," he told parliament.
"It is now up to parliament to amend the law, and that we should do soon," Shanmugam said in parliament on Monday.
She was forced, effectively, by her own people, to go to the federal parliament in Berlin and lie to members of parliament.
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg shakes hands with European Parliament President Antonio Tajani at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium May 22, 2018.
The measures do not amount to an outright block on suspending parliament but could make it much more difficult to bypass parliament.
Pound traders brush up on parliament as Brexit stakes mount -Britain's next Brexit flashpoint: What happens in parliament on Feb. 23-27?
LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - London police have closed Parliament Square near Britain's parliament due to an "ongoing incident," it said on Monday.
The #MeToo movement hit Canada's Parliament early this year, with women accusing current and former Members of Parliament across all major parties.
The group was set to meet members of the Belgium Parliament on Monday and also expects to meet with the European Parliament.
"If a government cannot get its legislation through parliament, it must go to the country for a new mandate," he told parliament.
On Tuesday Salim al-Jubouri, the Parliament speaker, suspended Parliament, days after lawmakers voted to remove him and elected an interim replacement.
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's devolved parliament will increase security measures with immediate effect following Wednesday's attack on Britain's parliament at Westminster in London.
He was certain enough members of parliament would back the nomination which required at least 226 votes in the 450-seat parliament.
European Parliament leadership, Parliament members, ambassadors of Ukraine and the United States to the European Union and Ukrainian representatives attended the event.
Judges in the country's highest court unanimously decided that the suspension of Parliament was "void," meaning members of Parliament must return immediately.
Jens Spahn was the youngest member to be directly elected to Parliament, but a younger member entered Parliament through a party list.
Some of the most serious allegations against Mr. Chau were repeated in the Australian Parliament by Andrew Hastie, a member of Parliament.
Since Parliament chooses the president in South Africa and the A.N.C. controls Parliament, the expectation was that Mr. Zuma would step down.
For Scotland to hold another legally binding referendum, the British Parliament would have to give its approval, as would the Scottish Parliament.
Business motions give the executive power to determine what happens in Parliament and when, and have not been considered changeable by Parliament.
In the directly elected lower house of parliament this will culminate in a vote to determine whether parliament has approved the deal.
North Korea has political gatherings on a regular basis — their parliament meets but it's considered to be basically a rubber-stamp parliament.
"She doesn't want the parliament to impeach her and she doesn't think that the parliament can soon reach an agreement, so she is making things complicated and trying to shift some of her blame to the parliament," he told Reuters.
Parliament could be at particular risk from becoming a hotbed of coronavirus transmission because the UK's 650 members of Parliament routinely travel across the country to and from their constituencies, as well as congregating in Parliament and interacting in close proximity.
The speaker of the lower house of Britain's parliament said he did not support the idea of Trump addressing parliament during the visit.
Sirisena met Tuesday with the speaker of Parliament, who'd urged the president to bring Parliament back into session to resolve the stalemate peacefully.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RATIFICATION - Unscheduled The European Parliament must also sign off on any agreement reached between May and the other 27 EU leaders.
SUSPENDING PARLIAMENT The question of suspending parliament was raised during a televised debate between Johnson and Hunt, the foreign minister, on Tuesday evening.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RATIFICATION - Unscheduled The European Parliament must also sign off on any agreement reached between May and the other 313 EU leaders.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RATIFICATION - Unscheduled The European Parliament must also sign off on any agreement reached between May and the other 27 EU leaders.
"This is a big day for parliament and our politics," said Andrea Leadsom, leader of the House of Commons lower house of parliament.
The European Parliament has invited Mr. Zuckerberg to testify as early as next month, though a parliament spokesman said it hasn't been finalized.
Parliament is due to vote on whether to remove the immunity from prosecution which Kem Sokha gets as an elected member of parliament.
Another point on the reform agenda is the European Parliament is the only parliament in the Western world that cannot propose legislation itself.
Zaev even toyed with the possibility of snap elections to replace sitting members of parliament should ratification in the Sobranie, Macedonia's parliament, fail.
The life of the current parliament was only due to expire in 2020 and her Conservative Party enjoyed a workable majority in parliament.
Attorney General Geoffrey Cox on Wednesday told members of Parliament they were a "disgrace" and called for the current parliament to be dissolved.
" The New Zealand Parliament also offered an apology after a reporter noted that the captions on Parliament TV said Swarbrick stated, "OK, Berma.
A source who asked not to be named told Reuters the parliament session to elect the parliament speaker would be held this week.
Under the constitution, Sirisena cannot dissolve the parliament until early 2020, while the parliament needs a two-thirds majority to impeach the president.
Parliament member At the time of Madikizela-Mandela's death, the longtime stalwart of the ruling party was a member of South Africa's parliament.
The pro-Russian Party of Regions, which once dominated half of parliament, now controls only 2628 members of parliament in the Opposition Bloc.
The Scotland Act was passed by the UK Parliament, and Parliament can amend it on its own to reduce the Scottish Parliament's powers.
If parliament can't make a decision, if parliament can't decide then the British people will need to do so through a general election.
If approved by a vote in parliament on Tuesday, they would then take control of business in parliament from 1400 GMT on Wednesday.
If approved by a vote in parliament on Tuesday, they would then take control of business in parliament from 1400 GMT on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Theresa May has even offered to resign if Parliament passes her plan, knowing that would appeal to many members of Parliament.
The idea, rather like in any parliament, is to have the Commission president as the leading candidate of the largest party in Parliament.
The best solution at this point is to shut down Parliament and elect new representatives because this Parliament does not represent the public.
Turkey's parliament last month stripped one of the HDP's two leaders of her status as a member of parliament and jailed the other.
The court's decision also reduces Johnson's ability to suspend parliament again, providing parliament with more leeway to prevent a no-deal, Dales added.
He's a member of Parliament, and Parliament members have immunity, so he can say what he wants to say, except for hate speech.
However, this can only be done when parliament is sitting, and the report wasn't released before parliament was dissolved ahead of the election.
Yes there are some areas where, and ultimately parliament will always be sovereign, and it will be parliament that will make these decisions.
This matters, because if Johnson is found to have violated the law in suspending Parliament, he could be ordered to bring Parliament back.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RATIFICATION - Unscheduled The European Parliament must also sign off on any agreement reached between May and the other 313 EU leaders.
As for new round BREXIT negotiation, May probably cooperate with British Parliament on negotiation content, so it is not ruled out that both EU and British Parliament will step back in the future, sending the amended BREXIT Deal got approval in the parliament.
Under the law, the Election Commission has to endorse winning members of parliament within 60 days of a vote, and parliament must convene within 15 days of the election results and the King will have to preside over the opening of parliament.
You cannot have a scenario where the government of the day is putting legislation through the Parliament and that legislation fails... If a government can't get its legislation through Parliament, there will have to be a change of characters in the Parliament.
But the soaring words in parliament met political reality, with African National Congress (ANC) members of parliament voting in unison to block the move.
The EU parliament also wants to vote only after Britain's parliament, to avoid endorsing a deal that may then get struck down in London.
"The Revolutionary Guards responded to Britain's hijacking of the Iranian tanker," parliament speaker Ali Larijani told a parliament session aired live on state radio.
Later on Thursday parliament voted to dismiss Sobolev, a member of the opposition Samopomich faction, which helped the committee drive key reforms through parliament.
The rest of her statement to Parliament consisted of woolly words about giving Parliament more say, and offering the devolved assembly leaders greater involvement.
Speaker of Parliament Paula Risikko said the required changes to the bill as well as parliament holidays would postpone the vote by several weeks.
Tunisia's parliament speaker travels this week to Brussels to express the country's concerns over Western military action to his counterparts in the European Parliament.
"It's a real danger for the next European Parliament," Wolfgang Schäuble, president of the German Parliament and former finance minister, told CNBC's Annette Weisbach.
Ahmed Nihan, leader of the ruling party group in parliament, said that "the ... emergency does not become void because parliament does not approve it".
This is due to strong political opposition in a fractious parliament and due to capacity constraints in the parliament and in the public sector.
Parliament elected him president just over two weeks ago; in Myanmar's hybrid electoral system, the people elect parliament, and then parliamentarians vote for president.
The Queen's Speech, the official opening of the British Parliament, usually mentions state visits that have been planned for when Parliament is in session.
That's because Johnson plans to suspend Parliament starting next week, a move apparently designed to prevent members of Parliament from trying to delay Brexit.
He can now walk into parliament as an elected official, just two years after he stormed and occupied parliament as a Sunflower Movement activist.
She would not seek approval from parliament, the BBC said, despite calls from the opposition Labour Party for parliament to be given a say.
He sent tanks to shut down Parliament in 1992, and later blessed a Constitution that established a unicameral Parliament, doing away with the Senate.
Mr. Wickremesinghe's side wants Parliament to meet next week, but a spokesman for the new government said Parliament won't meet again until Nov. 16.
" Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, said to Mr. Juncker: "The Parliament is exactly in line with you when it comes to Brexit.
" If Parliament votes to delay or stop Brexit, he said before Parliament acted on Friday, "It means that Britain is no longer a democracy.
Ms. Dancila, 54, a member of the European Parliament since 2009, will take power after her cabinet was approved by Parliament, 282 to 136.
She spent nearly 30 years in the Italian parliament and 14 years in the European Parliament, holding both seats when that was still possible.
The U.K.'s Union Jack flag will be flown on all flag poles in Parliament Square, the area in front of the U.K. Parliament.
" Scotland's highest civil court ruled that the British prime minister's decision to shut down parliament for five weeks "had the purpose of stymying parliament.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's parliament suspended a cabinet minister on Tuesday from its proceedings for one month for slapping a fellow lawmaker within parliament grounds.
Johnson, was asked by a lawmaker in parliament on Wednesday whether parliament was considering introducing conference calls and electronic voting if the situation worsened.
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont will address the regional parliament next Tuesday on the "current political situation," the Catalan parliament said on Twitter.
An all-party committee in parliament is now considering those recommendations and is due to report to parliament by the end of the year.
Rajoy will ask the Spanish parliament to dissolve the Catalan parliament and Catalonia will then be asked to hold new elections in the region.
"A bill brought before the UK Parliament to withdraw the UK from the EU would engage the constitutional convention in terms of which that Parliament does not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters without the consent of the Scottish Parliament," the document said.
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May must find a way to build consensus in parliament over Britain's departure from the European Union, and if she fails to, parliament will try to take control of Brexit, a Labour Party member of parliament said on Monday.
Legislation to stop a no-deal Brexit, even if approved by parliament on Wednesday, would need to be approved quickly by the House of Lords, the upper chamber of Britain's Houses of Parliament, before parliament is suspended on Monday 9 September until mid-October.
European Parliament tells vulnerable staff to telework to shrink COVID-19 risk The European Parliament is based in three locations in the EU, with the administrative offices in Luxembourg and plenary sessions of the parliament taking place in Brussels, Belgium, and Strasbourg in France.
The parliament also voted that machine voting would be used in at least 3,000 out of about 12,400 voting precincts at the European Parliament elections.
European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, right, welcomes Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg upon his arrival at the EU Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, May 43, 2018.
The proposals that emerged extending Sisi's presidency and his power over the courts and parliament were put before parliament by pro-Sisi lawmakers in February.
DBN can only be dissolved by parliament and therefore its creditors are unable to put the bank into bankruptcy without it being passed by parliament.
As a lawmaker, he has immunity from prosecution, which the outgoing parliament voted to suspend but which comes into effect again with the new parliament.
The central bank informed the upper house of Japan's parliament about Iwata's medical condition earlier on Wednesday after he was requested to appear in parliament.
The proposals that emerged – extending Sisi's presidency and his power over the courts and parliament – were put before parliament by pro-Sisi lawmakers in February.
DUBAI (Reuters) - The Emir of Kuwait has no intention of dissolving parliament, the parliament speaker said, in a report carried by state news agency KUNA.
Days before Parliament was dissolved and elections were called, Najib rammed through a bill in Parliament ostensibly targeted at curbing the spread of fake news.
"The fact that there's about 30 members of parliament present in this debate only really illustrates the fact that parliament is not serious," he said.
The speaker of parliament, Baleka Mbete, received a letter from Gigaba informing her of his resignation, parliament said in a statement without providing further detail.
A joint committee in Parliament is expected to publish a report on the draft legislation on Friday, when members of Parliament will scrutinize its contents.
"We're not asking parliament to regulate, we're asking parliament to immediately put a stop to it," Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, told CNBC.
The Conservatives have 365 MPs (Members of Parliament) and an 80-seat majority over all the other parties combined when the new U.K. Parliament resumes.
Two other national lawmakers are already on the petition, along with three Members of the European Parliament and two members of the devolved Scottish parliament.
"Even if the parliament renewed my confidence, I will not stay," he told the assembly's financial committee earlier on Wednesday, according to the parliament website.
The court said the decision to suspend parliament was illegal and that "immediate steps" for parliament to resume should be taken "as soon as possible".
The government will submit the extra spending plan to parliament next week and Yoo said he expected parliament to ratify the plan by Aug. 12.
Spain's parliament agreed unanimously to send 300 military personnel in 2014, when Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative People's Party (PP) had a majority in parliament.
So far the government has not brought those regulations to parliament for discussion and a deadline set by parliament passed at the end of January.
Just because Parliament now has say over a "plan B" doesn't mean Parliament knows what it actually wants to do if May's deal does fail.
Johnson was appearing in parliament for the first time since the Supreme Court ruled he had acted illegally in advising Queen Elizabeth to suspend parliament.
The president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, quickly expressed support: I stand in solidarity with the President of Iranian Parliament and the Iranian people.

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