India's Upper House of Parliament passed the bill on Tuesday -- the third time the bill has come up for a vote in the upper house.
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Incumbent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition — the LDP and its partner, the Komeito party — currently has the upper house majority of 147 out of 242 upper house seats.
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Pakistan's upper house of parliament on Monday condemned the contest.
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Abe made the remark at the upper house budget committee.
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Algeria's parliament appointed upper house chairman Abdelkader Bensalah as president.
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Half the seats in the 242-member upper house were contested.
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The upper house of parliament is expected to confirm the nomination.
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However, the party lost control of the upper house, the Senate.
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The junta will appoint all 250 members of the upper house.
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Kuroda was speaking in the upper house budget committee in parliament.
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The upper house is the less powerful of parliament's two chambers.
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The bill now passes to the upper house for further debate.
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Nazarbayev's daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva is the speaker of parliament's upper house.
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They made the comments in an upper house financial affairs committee.
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To try to speed up passage of the law, the ruling bloc took the rare, contentious step of skipping a vote in an upper house committee and moving directly to a vote in the full upper house.
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After members of the lower house of parliament voted earlier on Monday to throw out changes to the bill made by the upper house in recent weeks, the upper house also agreed to pass the legislation unamended.
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Kosachev is head of the upper house of parliament's international affairs committee.
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"This may not be appropriate before the upper house election," Kimura said.
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The upper house will not have the power to block the deal.
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Both are members of the upper house who were born in Australia.
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On Tuesday, parliament named upper house chairman Abdelkader Bensalah as interim president.
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The junta will appoint the 250-member Senate, or the upper house.
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Matviyenko is speaker of the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament.
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The Senate, the upper house, already approved the extension on May 5003.
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It nevertheless gives the ruling coalition firm control over the upper house.
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The upper house of parliament gave the budget final approval on Wednesday.
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Her equivalent candidate for the upper house, Manuel Cruz, was also elected.
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The vote in the country's recently sworn-in upper house was unanimous.
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It must still be approved by the upper house, which is expected.
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The most contentious provision affects the Senate, the upper house of Parliament.
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The Austrian ban must still be approved by the upper house of parliament.
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A spokesmen for the upper house of parliament could not immediately be reached.
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On Sunday, Japan's ruling coalition won a landslide victory in upper house elections.
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The 242-seat upper house Senate is entirely appointed by the ruling junta.
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Two lawmakers with disabilities took their seats in Japan's upper house on Aug.
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A senior minister in the upper house, Jim O'Neill, has also walked out.
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All 250 members of the upper house were appointed by Mr Prayuth's government.
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It will now go to the upper house of parliament before becoming law.
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HK/SIN Japan - Japan Upper House elections — Follow CNBC International on and Facebook.
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Mallya is a nominated member of the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
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However, the close result will leave him with a hostile upper house Senate.
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The bill was drafted by two members of the upper house of parliament.
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Sobchak's mother, Lyudmila Narusova, sits in the upper house of the Russian parliament.
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The ruling-junta will appoint the 250-member Senate, or the upper house.
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Reiwa was set up three months before the July 21 upper house poll.
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The outcome in the Senate, the upper house, will take longer to emerge.
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One other jailed Catalan leader was elected to the upper house, the Senate.
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Hashimoto became the first upper house lawmaker to give birth while in office.
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Debates are due to follow in the upper house, the Senate, in June.
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Others, like abolishing the legislature's upper house, seemed to have a broader aim.
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Johnson's office said Morgan would join parliament's upper house, the House of Lords.
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The upper house of parliament is trying to impose just such a ban.
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And with upper-house elections due this month, Mr Abe must not look weak.
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Tony Dean, who sponsored the bill in the upper house, told the Associated Press.
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New polls on Friday showed voters may return an even more unruly upper house.
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After the conviction, Berlusconi was expelled from Rome's Senate, or upper house of parliament.
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There are 124 seats up for grabs in the upper house election on Sunday.
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What will be the most desirable results of the July 21 upper house election?
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The country's upper house, lower house and the military will each nominate a candidate.
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Below are key facts about the upper house election and important numbers to watch.
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After years of lobbying, the bill was passed by the upper house in 2010.
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A new 54-seat upper house will also be created to represent the states.
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Spain's upper house of parliament is scheduled to vote on the plan next Friday.
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Antonio Inoki has served in the upper house of Japan's national parliament for years.
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The upper house of India's parliament -- the Rajya Sabha -- passed the bill on Monday.
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The state counselor bill was introduced in the upper house of Parliament on Thursday.
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Kerimov sits in the upper house of Russia's Parliament as a representative of Dagestan.
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But the upper house, which has no such mechanism, is only 13 percent women.
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Upper house elections are held every three years and members' terms run six years.
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The bill also has to be examined by the Senate, the upper house of Parliament.
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The upper house of the French parliament will now debate and vote for the plan.
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The upper house of parliament must approve his nomination and is expected to do so.
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"The results of the July Upper House election are uncertain for PM Abe," Natixis said.
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Mr. Abe's governing coalition faces an election for the upper house of Parliament this summer.
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The current upper house chairman Abdelkader Bensalah stands to become interim president as of now.
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The PD could also provide both camps with a majority in the upper house Senate.
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While the BJP controls the lower house, it is a minority in the upper house.
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The other vice president is expected to be the NLD's nomination from the upper house.
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Its campaign for an election this summer for the parliament's upper house is not inspiring.
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The Senate, France's upper house of Parliament, approved the bill by a show of hands.
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Turnout fell below 50% in the upper house poll for the first time since 1995.
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The bill, which did not have enough votes to pass India's upper house of parliament,
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In government, the coalition will have to deal with a fractious upper house, the Senate.
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Dzhabarov is deputy chairman of the international affairs committee in Russia's upper house of parliament.
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The upper house of parliament rejected the 5-Star's motion by 181 votes to 110.
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The strategy paid off, and led to substantial gains in the 2016 upper house election.
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Upper house elections are held every three years, with members' terms running for six years.
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It was passed in the lower house in January but failed in the upper house.
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In a July election, Abe's LDP secured a majority in the upper house of parliament.
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But the 250-member upper house, or Senate, will be chosen entirely by the military.
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Japan's governing coalition must contend with an election for the upper house of Parliament this summer.
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The upper house of parliament, the Senate, approved the changes in a session late on Friday.
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Sado covered two elections in summer 5003: the Tokyo Assembly election and the upper-house election.
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Already, several upper-house independent and small-party members have declared they would vote against it.
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Plus, markets were boosted by a landslide victory for Japan's ruling coalition in upper house elections.
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A two-thirds majority is needed to move the matter to Brazil's upper house, the Senate.
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The constitution gives the junta the power to appoint all 250 members of the upper house.
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Parliament on Tuesday named Bensalah, the upper house chairman for almost 20 years, as caretaker president.
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Local elections will be held nationwide next April and an upper house poll in July 2019.
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The measure now goes to the upper house Senate for final approval before it becomes law.
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Currently, Rajoy's People's Party has a majority in the Upper House meaning the proposals should pass.
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Japan's Upper House passed a bill Friday aimed at fighting microplastic pollution, the Japan Times reports.
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After the debate in the upper house, the bill will be passed to the lower house.
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Reforms last year increased the number of seats in the upper house by three to 245.
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That would eventually help them get control of the upper house and totally control the Parliament.
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It stipulates that the upper house of Thailand's Parliament, for instance, is appointed, rather than elected.
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Since 2015, he has also served as the deputy chairman of the upper house of Parliament.
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Far-right politician Pauline Hanson also looks set to win a position in the upper house.
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The bill passed the upper house of parliament with 125 members supporting it and 105 opposing.
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In Japan's House of Councilors, or upper house, 10.13 of the 241 representatives -- 20% -- are women.
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The bill passed the lower house of parliament and lands today in the upper house. 4.
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The bill passed the upper house of parliament with 125 members supporting it and 105 opposing.
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Franz Klintsevich, a member of the upper house of parliament's security committee, also rejected the idea.
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If that isn't complicated enough, it appears as though Australia's upper house will be similarly deadlocked.
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The 70 members of parliament's upper house, known as the Dewan Negara, are appointed, not elected.
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Shehu said Buhari would likely submit cabinet nominees to the upper house of parliament in July.
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On Friday afternoon, the Upper House of the Indian Parliament engaged in a debate concerning social media.
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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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The charter calls for an appointed upper house with some seats reserved for the military and police.
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But there's some interplay between the tax delay announcement, supplementary budget and the July upper house election.
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If the motion is approved in the upper house, Rousseff could be suspended as early as May.
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The next step is for the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house, to vote on the issue next week.
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The next morning India's home minister carried a package of legislation into the upper house of parliament.
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And Mr Abe lost his coalition's two-thirds majority in the upper house in elections last month.
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Were he elevated to the upper house, Lord Farage would not be short of new, better targets.
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In the initial vote on the rescheduling, one member of the upper house appeared to vote against.
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The bill must now be passed by the upper house, which is expected to be a formality.
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Abe was speaking in the upper house of parliament in response to questions from an opposition lawmaker.
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The bills still need to be passed by Russia's upper house and signed by President Vladimir Putin.
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Scotland, a member of parliament's upper house and former government minister, will run the Commonwealth's administrative body.
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The legislation is due to pass back to the upper house later on Monday for its approval.
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The full upper house still needs to adopt the legislation, which differs from the lower house's version.
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The so-called "growth decree" was approved in the upper-house Senate by 158 votes to 104.
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India's upper house passed the biggest reform to taxes since the country's independence from Britain in 1947.
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The party fared badly at elections in July for half of the seats in the upper house.
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Half of the 242 seats in the upper house come up for re-election every three years.
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King Abdullah II appoints the prime minister, cabinet members and members of the upper house of Parliament.
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With 60 members, Congress is the single largest party in parliament's upper house, whose members total 245.
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It will now be sent to the upper house of Parliament, where it is expected to pass.
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Valentina Matviyenko, a Kremlin loyalist and speaker of the upper house of parliament, said Russia would retaliate.
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Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the upper house, hailed the victory as a moral one over the West.
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He also held a seat in the Senate, France's upper house of Parliament, from 2004 to 2017.
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Last year, FiveThirtyEight computed a "popularity above replacement senator" score for every member of the upper house.
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That exodus has left the government with only a wafer-thin majority in the upper house Senate.
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At a committee meeting of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament, on Dec.
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Passing the upper house which has a centre-right majority will also be tough, the campaigners said.
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It also recommended that the upper house notify prosecutors of the evasive answers it received from Macron's aides.
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I will be happy when there is a majority in the upper house too [for the Modi government].
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"We cannot allow them to fight the upper house election by hiding this," media quoted Edano as saying.
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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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Following the bill's passage in the lower house last year, approval is now needed in the upper 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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It will need approval in the House of Lords, the upper house of the parliament to become law.
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Abe was speaking in Japan's upper house in response to questions about his summit with Trump last week.
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The budget was given final approval by the upper house of parliament, with the ruling bloc's firm majority.
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Abdelkader Bensalah, the head of parliament's upper house, becomes interim president and must organise elections within 90 days.
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Mallya, a member of the upper house of India's parliament, has said he would comply with the law.
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However, the bills may face difficulties in the upper house of parliament, where the government lacks a majority.
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Bukola Saraki, a PDP member who was president of the upper house of parliament, lost his senatorial seat.
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Another factor supporting the case for delayed stimulus is the closely-watched Upper House parliamentary elections in July.
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The text may be modified when it goes to the upper house of parliament for approval, Valls said.
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Kuroda and Aso were both speaking at the same upper house committee in response to a opposition lawmaker.
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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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Mr. Abe must call an election this summer for the upper house of Parliament, the House of Councillors.
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A similar session is likely to be held by parliament's upper house later next week, lawmakers told Reuters.
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Because of the way members of the upper house are chosen, replacing them will not require by-elections.
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Abe's coalition and allies won two-thirds of the seats in parliament's upper house in a Sunday election.
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The bill has been tabled in the upper house and lawmakers have until May 16 to submit questions.
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Meanwhile, the Congress Party's share of seats in the Parliament's upper house, the Rajya Sabha, has been shrinking.
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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 president of the Senate, Aquilino Pimentel III, said that the upper house of Congress respected Monday's decision.
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The bills must still pass the upper house of lawmakers before President Vladimir Putin signs them into law.
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Matteo Renzi, Italy's prime minister, proposes to reduce the power of the Senate, the upper house of Parliament.
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Earlier this year, FiveThirtyEight computed a "popularity above replacement senator" score for every member of the upper house.
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The bill is expected to be approved by the rubber-stamp upper house before President Vladimir Putin signs it.
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Raab is due to speak at 1300 GMT at an EU committee in the Britain's upper house of parliament.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said last year he saw no reason to appoint people to the unelected upper house.
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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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Both chambers of parliament have approved the new law, with the Bundesrat upper house giving its backing on Friday.
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Senate leader Renan Calheiros promptly rejected his decision and said the upper house would press forward with impeachment proceedings.
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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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Upper house elections are held every three years for half the chamber's seats and members' terms run six years.
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Indirect elections to the upper house of parliament earlier this year give a sense of how the army operates.
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Another measure would expand Sisi's power over the legislative branch by creating an upper house known as a senate.
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A two-thirds vote in the upper house is needed to convict Rousseff and remove her from office permanently.
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The foreign ministry last Sunday revoked Mallya's diplomatic passport that he carried as a member of parliament's upper house.
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After a heated debate, the upper house of parliament passed the so-called Regeni amendment by 159 to 55.
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The official said no significant progress would come until after July 21 elections for Japan's upper house of parliament.
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Kuroda told the upper house financial affairs committee that the BOJ was read to fight off unhelpful market moves.
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In 2015, the vote for members of the upper house Senate was done through secret ballots of provincial lawmakers.
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Lawmakers in the Senate, the upper house of parliament, voted on Tuesday to open an investigation into the allegations.
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A third reading is still required before the legislation passes on to the upper house of parliament for approval.
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He was elected to the upper house on Sunday to represent the northern city of Bergamo - the League's heartland.
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If passed, it would normally then go to parliament's upper house for approval before Ramaphosa signs it into law.
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The measure, approved last week by Parliament's upper house, will now go to President Htin Kyaw for his signature.
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The Council of the European Union, or "upper house," consists of representatives sent by the governments of member states.
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The bill still needs to be passed by the Upper House for passage where the BJP lacks a majority.
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"We cannot allow them to fight the upper house election by hiding this," Japanese media quoted Edano as saying.
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The vote in the opposition-controlled upper house on Thursday showed the issue had met transpartisan support in France.
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Ryan is still formally committed to this agenda, but his colleagues in the upper house seems considerably more skeptical.
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But within an hour, the upper house of Spain's parliament in Madrid authorized Rajoy's government to rule Catalonia directly.
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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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The main reform on the ballot would sharply reduce the role of the Senate, the upper house of Parliament.
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The upper house of Congress also passed a separate bill banning certain munition exports to the Hong Kong police.
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All eyes will be on the upper house of parliament, where the government and its allies are a minority.
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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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There were fewer changes in the cabinet, the upper house of parliament, the Security Council and the presidential administration.
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The proposed upskirting bill will now be put to the Bundesrat — German parliament's upper house —with support from three states.
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Upper-house parliamentarians in Andhra Pradesh filed lawsuits to leave their regional party in order to side with the BJP.
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The legislation must pass a third reading, before being approved by the upper house of parliament and signed by Putin.
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If congress decides to impeach an official, then the upper house, which currently has 23 members, convenes for a trial.
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The upper house is elected by proportional representation and is now dominated by a menagerie of minor parties and independents.
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The Socialists have a majority in Spain's upper house and had expected the nomination of Iceta to be easily approved.
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The other three areas are upper-house electoral districts, the right to free education and emergency powers for the cabinet.
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Among other things, it proposes an unelected upper house Senate to include a handful of top military and police commanders.
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It will probably hold the balance of power in the upper house, forcing the state government to haggle with it.
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Even so, because the government lacks a majority in the upper house, the Lords will try to amend the bill.
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Together with the pro-constitutional revisionists, his coalition has gained a two-thirds majority of the 121-seat upper house.
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Various French media reported on Monday that the official worked at the Senate, the upper house of the French parliament.
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To become law, the draft must go through a further reading and win approval from the upper house of parliament.
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That it must still beg to nominate a single member of the bloated, 812-member upper house is a scandal.
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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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"From a parliamentary standpoint, the military retains the upper hand because it controls the 250-seat upper house," said Zawacki.
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The changes to the Tax Code should yet be approved by the upper house of parliament and President Vladimir Putin.
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Wakatabe, speaking in the upper house of parliament, said the BOJ would first conduct operations to mop up excess liquidity.
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A long-time Bouteflika ally, Bensalah has been re-elected as leader of the upper house since the early 2000s.
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It's seen as a drastic change to a political system that currently balances power between the parliament and upper house.
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The bill now moves to the upper house Senate for final approval which is expected to come before mid-August.
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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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The senator met with members of the Russian parliament&aposs upper house who serve on the foreign affairs committee Monday.
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The bill will need to be approved by the upper house of parliament, the House of Lords, to become law.
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To become law, the bill needs to be passed in the upper house and then signed by President Vladimir Putin.
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In response, the speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament announced that the country was ready to negotiate a deal.
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Malema, however, believes it is not necessary to refer the bill to the upper house, which could hasten its passing.
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The measures must now be approved by Spain's upper house, the Senate, where a vote is scheduled for Oct. 27.
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After an election in Japan, Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, can now pass legislation without approval from the upper house.
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Nigeria's upper house of parliament last month agreed to investigate whether MTN unlawfully repatriated $13.92 billion between 2006 and 2016.
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Following Tuesday's upper house vote it now only requires the signature of the president - considered a formality - to become law.
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The upper house Senate rejected the policy on Wednesday and Turnbull said soon after he would no longer pursue it.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won a landslide victory on Sunday in an election for parliament's Upper House.
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"Cancellation or delay of the Games would be unacceptable for the athletes," Hashimoto said before the Upper House budget committee.
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"Mueller has nothing on Flynn," said Aleksei K. Pushkov, a member of the Federation Council, the upper house of Parliament.
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In the upper house, the Senate, 31 said they supported removing the ban, 313 oppose it and 17 are undeclared.
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In 73, a lawmaker strolled into India's upper house wearing a garland of onions to protest the staple's rising price.
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Hours later, the 170-seat Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, gave its approval by 20000 votes to one.
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"Cancellation or delay of the Games would be unacceptable for the athletes," Hashimoto said before the Upper House budget committee.
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The amendment goes to the upper house on Friday for final approval, but it is not expected to face opposition.
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Under the draft law, every former president automatically becomes a member of the upper house unless he waives that right.
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In the northern state of Kachin, the NLD finished third in an Upper House race it had won in 2015.
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However, there may be some room for manoeuvre, not least because the Greens are blocking legislation in the upper house.
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The bill passed through the upper house two days later, despite impassioned objections from across the political and social spectrum.
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The others dismissed were all senators in the upper house and their seats can be assigned to party-appointed alternatives.
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Some apologists claim that he is waiting until he wins a majority in the upper house before taking on bigger reforms.
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The bill will still need to go to the upper house or senate for approval before it is enacted as law.
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He also served as a senator representing the minority, which has long had a seat in the upper house of parliament.
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It will then have to be approved by the upper house of parliament and President Vladimir Putin before passing into law.
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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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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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When it was clear the critics had enough support to prevent ratification in the upper house, Ms Bishop withdrew the bill.
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It sought to constrain governments by spreading power equally between the lower Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, the upper house.
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The upper house, the House of Lords, will now begin months of scrutiny of the bill before it can become law.
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On Sunday, Trump tweeted that he expected big moves on trade would wait until after Japan's upper house election in July.
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They must still go through the PiS-dominated upper house and be signed by the PiS-allied president to take effect.
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There will be local and upper-house elections in 2019 and in the following year Tokyo will host the Olympic games.
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The government has also revoked Mallya's diplomatic passport which he had received as a member of the upper house of parliament.
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The Moscow Times reports that during Wednesday's session of the upper house of the Russian Parliament, a senator proposed summoning Zuckerberg.
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She said the law was likely to take effect in March after a procedural reading by the upper house of parliament.
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Fractured opposition While an opposition sweep could reshape the upper house both politically and gender wise, polls suggest this is unlikely.
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The 120-to-20163 vote sent the bill to the upper house of Parliament, where it is expected to get approval.
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But some analysts say another delay could not be ruled out as Abe faces an upper house election in the summer.
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There was no immediate comment from Siri, who remains a member of the upper house Senate after losing his government role.
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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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The text will enter into force after a second reading in the upper house and its publication in the official bulletin.
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Berlusconi has some 40 senators in the 315-seat upper house and needed substantial outside backing to head off the magistrates.
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Germany's council of 16 federal states, its analogue of an upper house, must still approve the new law on July 8th.
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Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, kicked off an upper-house election campaign by touting his plans to boost the country's economy.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won a majority in the country's upper house of Parliament in elections on Sunday.
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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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"We will veto any attempt to put a ceiling on government bonds in banks' portfolios," Renzi told the upper house Senate.
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Mr. Turnbull must also woo a disparate band of independents in the upper house, the Senate, to pass bills into law.
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Driving the news: Last week, Italy's upper house of parliament voted to suspend the mandatory inoculation of schoolchildren against 10 diseases.
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A member of India's upper house of parliament, Mallya is known as the "King of Good Times" for his party lifestyle.
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"The Federation Council (the upper house of parliament) has received the results of voting in all 85 regional parliaments," said Klishas.
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Members in Russia's upper house of parliament have assailed officials for ignoring the environmental damage in Siberia and the Far East.
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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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Malaysia's Upper House passed a bill criminalizing the spread of fake news this week, the first step in it becoming law.
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On Monday, Senator Go told the upper house that the Games organizers needed to stop apologizing and start getting things fixed.
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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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Interfax cited Vladimir Dzhabarov, first deputy head of the Russian upper house of parliament's international affairs committee, as issuing the warning.
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This has effectively already been the case since March, when the coalition lost its majority in the upper house, the Senate.
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Jaroslav Kubera, the chairman of the Czech upper house of parliament, died on Monday morning, the chamber's spokeswoman said.
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Nigeria's upper house of parliament agreed last month to investigate whether the company unlawfully repatriated $13.92 billion between 2006 and 2016.
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Japan's upper house of parliament on Wednesday approved the deal, which cuts tariffs on U.S. farm goods and Japanese machine tools.
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The bill against genital cutting, introduced and debated in the upper house of Britain's Parliament, had already cleared all stages there.
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To become law, the draft must go through a further two readings and win approval from the upper house of parliament.
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The candidate would need majority support from both houses - all 250 senators in the upper house are appointed by the junta.
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He was referring to events that unfolded after his conservative LDP suffered a huge defeat in a 2007 upper house poll.
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Deighton, a Conservative member of the upper House of Lords, served as Britain's Commercial Secretary to the Treasury until last year.
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It found little sign of renewal in the cabinet, the upper house of parliament, the Security Council and the presidential administration.
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The legislation must pass a third reading, before being approved by the upper house of parliament and signed by President Vladimir Putin.
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Labour politician Peter Hain used a speech in the upper house of the British parliament, the House of Lords, to name Green.
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However, in a controversial move lambasted by the media, she refused to give up her seat in Spain's upper house of parliament.
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On Tuesday, the bill won approval in an Upper House committee after getting enough support within Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition.
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The upper house of parliament last month approved the Eurobond issue but advised the government to limit foreign borrowing and boost revenue.
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Thus, the upper house is the biggest roadblock to Modi's reform agenda, especially his plans to revamp Indian labor laws, Eurasia explained.
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"The question is how to ensure workers," Yoshio Kimura, a member of Abe's Liberal Democratic Party in parliament's upper house, told Reuters.
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If the upper house opens an impeachment trial against Rousseff, she will then be suspended from office for up to six months.
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The BJP's defenders argue that none of this is feasible, because the upper house of the national parliament is in opposition hands.
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Fifty-five of the 1743 members of the upper house voted in favor of the motion early Thursday, with 22 voting against.
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However, a hostile upper house Senate, where Turnbull's conservative coalition failed to gain a clear majority, has fought him at every turn.
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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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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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Markets were also contemplating further stimulus in Japan, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won Upper House elections by a landslide.
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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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There is also a busy electoral calendar, with voting for part of the upper house and lots of local offices next year.
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Instead, around 14,000 delegates representing different clans will pick MPs, while the various state assemblies will nominate members of the upper house.
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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 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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The upper house approved a government amendment pushing back full liberalisation of the energy retail market by one year to July 210.
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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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During a budget meeting in the parliament's Upper House that followed SMAP's announcement, Abe was questioned on his thoughts about the news.
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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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Abe was speaking at a news conference after his ruling coalition won a landslide victory on Sunday in an upper house election.
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Renzi's referendum meant to abolish the upper house as an elected body, but its failure means the two houses have different rules.
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It would then have to go to parliament's upper house, the House of Lords, where the government does not have a majority.
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The appointment would need to be approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before passing to the full upper house for confirmation.
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The Finance Bill, passed by a voice vote, will next go to the upper house, which is widely expected to pass it.
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Vox's one senator made his debut in the upper house of parliament in February by blocking a motion against homophobia in sport.
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"The choice of Tillerson is a sensation," said Alexei Pushkov, a pro-Kremlin lawmaker in the upper house of the Russian parliament.
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That would double up with Shinzo Abe's plan for fresh round of fiscal stimulus following an election win in the upper house.
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Prime Minister Theresa May faces a tough battle as her party attempts to steer flagship legislation through Britain's upper house of parliament.
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But the passage of a new goods-and-services tax (GST) in India's upper house on August 3rd is a deserved exception.
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Even so, in the election for the upper house due in less than two months, the LDP is expected to do well.
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Lawmakers from the upper house of parliament had earlier asked Barclay if this was "the last chance saloon" for May's divorce deal.
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The upper house president said if no agreement were reached she may summon the full Senate on Tuesday to set a date.
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"The economy will be the biggest issue for the new House of Representatives," said Jamal Fakhro, deputy president of Bahrain's upper house.
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In March Mr Turnbull won parliamentary approval to simplify a convoluted system of proportional representation under which Australians elected the upper house.
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AS THE results of the election for the Diet's upper house rolled in on July 10th, Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, beamed.
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Mr Turnbull may need the support of small parties and independents, who are likely to hold the balance in the upper house.
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That means, in effect, that voters in Fukui get three times more representation in the upper house than their counterparts in Miyagi.
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The ratio between upper-house districts used to be as much as 6:1, says Taku Sugawara of the University of Tokyo.
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The market showed no reaction to Sunday's Japanese upper house election, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc won a solid majority.
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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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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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His appointment would need to be approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before passing to the full upper house for confirmation.
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The bill is now due to go before the upper house where the largely left-wing government coalition also has a majority.
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As the Senate takes up the topic, the conventional wisdom is that the bill as written is DOA in the upper house.
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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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The president also appoints members of the Central Bank board and selects Constitutional Court judges with the approval of Parliament's upper house.
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Ireland's upper house of parliament cannot be fully constituted until an additional selection of members are picked by a new prime minister.
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FOR A SEPTUAGENARIAN member of India's somnolent upper house, five years out of government, Palaniappan Chidambaram is a man much in demand.
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The measure still requires the approval of the upper house of Parliament and the president, and could take effect in the fall.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Kumamoto on Wednesday to kick off campaigning for an election next month for parliament's upper house.
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The upper house senate will now send the bills to President Klaus Iohannis, whose signature is required for them to take effect.
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The head of the upper house, the Senate, is the second highest public official in the European Union country after the president.
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He added that it would be "difficult and indeed unprecedented" for the unelected upper house of parliament to block such a decision.
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The party also has the backing of the 250-member Senate or upper house, whose members are all appointed by the military.
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On Thursday, the upper house and lower houses of parliament, and the military block in the legislature, will each nominate a candidate.
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Now the BJP must win support from smaller regional groups to push the bill through the upper house of parliament this week.
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German members of the upper house of parliament objected last month to the implementation of free movement in the legal services field.
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The legislation will now be discussed in the upper house of parliament, the Senate, which has been controlled by anti-PiS parties.
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Reforms last year take to 245 the number of upper house seats, from 242, and 124 will be contested in this round.
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Reforms last year will take to 245 the number of upper house seats, from 242, and 124 will be contested in this round.
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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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A member of Russia's upper house of parliament, Andrei Klimov, told RIA news agency that Moscow would expel two Greek diplomats in response.
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The queen usually rides to the House of Lords, the upper house of Parliament filled with actual lords, in a horse-drawn carriage.
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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 state elections are crucial at national level because each state nominates a proportional number of representatives to India's upper house of parliament.
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That is a feeble excuse and, in any case, will change as state assemblies, which elect the upper house, fall to the BJP.
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The legislature that sits in the state capital, Lucknow, also appoints a substantial share of members in India's upper house, the Rajya Sabha.
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Trump had previously said he did not expect major progress until July, when Abe's ruling bloc faces an election for parliament's upper house.
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A senior government source said the exact measures would be agreed on Saturday and probably voted through the upper house Senate on Oct.
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A constitution passed in a stage-managed referendum in 2016 gave the generals the right to appoint the entire upper house of parliament.
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Effectively, Oggiano explained, these reforms would result in a reduced role for the upper house Senate and limit the influence of regional government.
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Mr Xenophon announced before the court's verdict that he would leave the upper house to run for election in his home state's legislature.
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Kerimov was meeting with Valentina Matvienko, the speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament, during his three-day visit to Russia.
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The disbarring of members of the upper house will make no difference to Mr Turnbull: he already lacks a majority in the Senate.
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The law will come into force after it is approved by the upper house of the parliament and signed by President Vladimir Putin.
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Nigeria's upper house of parliament last month agreed to investigate whether Africa's biggest telecoms company unlawfully repatriated $13.92 billion between 2006 and 2016.
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The government may also face trouble in the upper house, the House of Lords, where the ruling Conservatives do not have a majority.
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The bill is yet to be approved by the parliament's upper house, which is expected to hold a similar session later this week.
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Congress took hits in state elections and in June lost the upper house votes it needed to be sure of stopping the GST.
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In the upper house the government plans to enlist the support of Peronist governors, who are also keen to tap international credit markets.
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The bill, which is also likely to be approved by Germany's upper house, allows same-sex couples to marry and jointly adopt children.
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Valentina Matvienko, a Kremlin loyalist and speaker of the upper house of Russia's parliament, met the North Korean leader in Pyongyang on Saturday.
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He sits in the upper house of Britain's parliament and has held board positions at several major companies, including chairing retailer Marks & Spencer.
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"Illegal immigrants living on every inch of this country will be deported according to the law," Shah told the upper house of parliament.
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While the Australian upper house cannot block takeovers, the government is under pressure to retain the support of independents to pass other legislation.
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The lower house and the upper house Senate, whose 250 members are appointed by the junta, will together select the next prime minister.
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Whoever wins power faces an anxious few weeks to determine the composition of the upper house Senate, where 76 seats will be contested.
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Mr. Kunz will not sever his ties with Café Gray Deluxe, his restaurant in the Upper House, a boutique hotel in Hong Kong.
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All were senators, which meant seats in the upper house of parliament could be assigned to party alternatives if they were ruled ineligible.
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In Miyagi there are almost 976,203 registered voters for every member the prefecture sends to the upper house of the Diet, or parliament.
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"I am committed to organizing elections," said Bensalah, who has been re-elected as leader of the upper house since the early 2000s.
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Lawmakers are expected to vote on Thursday and if the bill passes, it would move to the upper house, the more conservative Senate.
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The UK's upper house of parliament is asking for contributions to an enquiry into the socioeconomic and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence technology.
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Looking to broaden its slender majority in the upper house Senate, the cabinet will include Roberto Speranza, who was given the health portfolio.
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An amended version of the bill cleared Pakistan's legislative assembly late on Wednesday after being passed by the upper house earlier this year.
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But Varadkar said there was concern about the ability to pass laws after next week once elections to the upper house are completed.
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The upper house Senate voted 152-76 in favour of removing the legal protection that had shielded him as a former cabinet minister.
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Mark Malloch-Brown, a former Labour government minister and an independent member of Britain's upper house of parliament, described it as "well-managed".
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The government won its initial, obligatory vote of confidence in the upper house 169-133 thanks to the backing of some independent senators.
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And on Wednesday, they were walloped by a new worrisome development: The upper house of India's Parliament passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB).
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The entire upper house, where the ruling People's Party holds a majority, will then vote on the measures as soon as Oct. 27.
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The landmark bill is now expected to get to the full Upper House as early as Wednesday and is widely expected to get approved.
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Now, the BJP has turned its attention to a fight that could increase its strength in the upper house and deal Congress another blow.
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The bill will be voted on again next week in the country's Federal Council, the parliament's upper house, and it's expected to be passed.
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Thanks to a number of important victories this November, there will be a record 21 female senators serving in the upper house in 2017.
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Protesters also demanded Abdelkader Bensalah, head of the upper house of parliament, quit as interim president as well as interim Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui.
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Addressing the Senate, the upper house of the Italian parliament, Mr Conte said he was resigning solely because of Mr Salvini's withdrawal of support.
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Elections for the upper house remain governed by an earlier law that the same court has modified into an extreme form of proportional representation.
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And there perched on a parapet just below the glittering royal throne sat Theresa May, on a highly unusual visit to the upper house.
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Whichever party wins, the new government will have to grapple with a splintered upper house, which makes it increasingly hard to adopt controversial legislation.
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ABUJA, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sent a draft budget for 2017 to the upper house of parliament for approval.
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The established church oversees about a quarter of England's state-funded schools and, alone among religions, commands 26 episcopal seats in Parliament's upper house.
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Over the next few weeks, the upper house, the lower house and the military bloc in parliament will put forward one presidential candidate each.
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In mid-July, Scott Ludlam of the Australian Greens resigned from the upper house, having just discovered he was a citizen of New Zealand.
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For years, he served in the upper house of Russia's parliament, and since 25, he's been a deputy governor at the Russian central bank.
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Parliament's upper house was expected to vote through a bill forcing the removal of Supreme Court judges and giving parliament control over choosing replacements.
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But in a mixed outcome reflecting a deeply divided electorate, the Republicans strengthened their grip on the Senate, expanding their majority in upper house.
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Also present was Abdelkader Bensalah, chairman of the upper house of parliament, who will run the country for 90 days until elections are held.
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But as the UK's upper house prepares to vote on final amendments to the bill, engineer Gareth Llewelyn is readying his own technical countermeasures.
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But to "appoint" individuals to any of these offices, "the advice and consent of the Senate", the upper house of America's parliament, is required.
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Along with like-minded parties, the LDP bloc also has a majority in the upper house, which would be needed to revise the constitution.
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But ruling India has proved much harder than running Gujarat, and he is constrained by the lack of a majority in Parliament's upper house.
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If nominated, his appointment would need to be approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before passing to the full upper house for confirmation.
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The total number of seats will be raised by another three to 248 in three years, when the next upper house election is held.
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ABUJA, July 23 (Reuters) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari submitted his list of cabinet nominees to the upper house of parliament, the Senate, on Tuesday.
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The Upper House have nominated Henry Van Thio, an ethnic Chin, while the military have put forward an Air Force candidate, Khin Aung Myint.
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And the Speaker of the upper house of the Russian Parliament suggested that parliamentary committees should look into banning children from unsanctioned protests altogether.
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It could have coincided with one that will be held for half of the seats in the upper house of parliament on July 10th.
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The ruling bloc took the rare step of skipping a vote in committee and going directly to a full session of parliament's upper house.
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FOR a country that votes as often and noisily as India, elections to the Rajya Sabha, its upper house of parliament, are oddly staid.
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Article 155's effects would not be felt for several days due to it requiring approval from the upper house of parliament, the Senate.
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Major General Tauk Tun is the most senior military lawmaker selected for the lower house and major general Than Soe for the upper house.
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The election's strongest newcomer was a party founded by Nick Xenophon, a centrist who had entered the Senate, the upper house, eight years ago.
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The upper house also voted to give Parliament a big say on any final Brexit deal, rather than leaving it to the government alone.
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The opposition and the protesters want to postpone the upper house vote until a new president is elected in a national election on Dec.
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On Friday, however, the Senate rejected the bill, with votes from the opposition Pakistan People's Party, which has a majority in the upper house.
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The government and its coalition partner have strengthened their mandate following the recent election, notably gaining a two-thirds majority in the upper house.
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The 2016 budget became law in May after being delayed by several months by wrangling between the government and the upper house of parliament.
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It will add to a busy political calendar in Japan, with elections for the upper house of the national Parliament set for July 10.
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Activists and members of India's transgender community said they hoped the bill would be rejected in the upper house, where Modi's party lacks members.
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A report published by a committee of lawmakers from Britain's upper house of parliament also stressed the importance of phasing in any immigration controls.
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Britain's upper house of parliament was holding a second day of debate over launching the Brexit process and various pressure points were showing elsewhere.
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The constitutional reform proposes drastically diminishing the powers of the upper house Senate, leaving most decision-making in the hands of the lower house.
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Her election to the upper house of Parliament is being hailed as a landmark moment for the country's generally oppressed religious minorities, especially Hindus.
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If anything, the trip could improve his standing at home as the country heads into elections for the upper house of Parliament next month.
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The bill is expected to go before the upper house of Parliament for final passage before the current legislative session ends in mid-June.
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And on August 13th, a hastily reconvened upper house rejected the League's demand for a confidence debate to be held the very next day.
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The chairman of the Czech Republic's upper house of parliament, Kubera was the second-most senior official in the country after President Milos Zeman.
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The protests first broke out on Wednesday, after the controversial bill was passed by the upper house of India's Parliament, and quickly turned violent.
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Parliament's upper house must sign off on the legislation but the lower house vote showed there was enough support to override any potential veto.
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That would give it around three weeks to pass through the upper house, the House of Lords, where the government does not control scheduling.
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It will now go to the House of Lords (Parliament's upper house, whose members are not directly elected), where another battle will play out.
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Women now hold 20113 of the 130 seats in the lower house (53 percent) and 17 of 36 in the upper house (47 percent).
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"Government has taken comprehensive measures to curb the incidence of fraud in banks," Nirmala Sitharaman, India's finance minister told the upper house of parliament.
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Should Turnbull be returned as prime minister, the verdict clears the path after several years of key policies being rejected by the upper house.
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Adding to the government's problems, 5-Star recently expelled two senators from the party last month, weakening its fragile majority in the upper house.
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That would give it around three weeks to pass through the upper house, the House of Lords, where the government does not control scheduling.
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Under the constitution, the chairman of parliament's upper house, Abdelkader Bensalah, would serve as caretaker president for at least 45 days after Bouteflika's departure.
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Women now hold 69 of the 130 seats in the lower house (53 percent) and 17 of 36 in the upper house (47 percent).
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The case to ban the NPD is being brought on behalf of the Bundesrat, parliament's upper house, which represents Germany's 16 regional state governments.
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Separately, Franz Klintsevich, a member of the upper house of parliament's security committee, said there was no proof to underpin the accusations against Moscow.
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The lower house and the upper house, the Senate - which is appointed entirely by the ruling junta - will together select the next prime minister.
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S. alliance, said on Twitter on Sunday that he expected big moves on trade would wait until after Japan's upper house election in July.
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Asahi reckons that the upper house elections "will be an opportunity for Japanese voters to make choices that help restore health to this nation's democracy".
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India's BJP, which has a majority in the national lower house, has long been seeking to expand its numbers in the upper house as well.
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In June 230, the upper house of the NSW parliament established a broad inquiry into museums and galleries, which is due for publication in October.
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Authorities have postponed a presidential election initially planned for Thursday, extending a transition period led by Bensalah as upper house head according to the constitution.
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However, even with the landslide win in Uttar Pradesh, Modi will still fall short of enough support in the parliament's upper house, says Eurasia's Kumar.
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BJP President Amit Shah and another Modi loyalist are running for re-election to the upper house from Gujarat, the prime minister's western home state.
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The petition to impeach him for "acts of misbehavior" and misuse of authority was signed by 64 serving members of the upper house of parliament.
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But after the G7 leaders' summit in western Japan Friday, Abe told reporters a decision would be reached before July upper house elections, Reuters reported.
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Wolfson, a prominent "Leave" supporter and Conservative peer in the upper house of Britain's parliament, said political uncertainty over Brexit was not stopping consumers spending.
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The prospect of even a minority of Lords voting against the result of the referendum will highlight the arbitrary character of the unelected upper house.
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The government nominee looks certain to be approved by the upper house on Wednesday, given the ruling coalition's solid majority in both chambers of parliament.
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He is expected to compile an economic stimulus package later this year after his ruling bloc won a landslide victory in Sunday's upper house election.
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On July 15, the speaker of the upper house of the Russian Parliament gave a speech denouncing gay adoptions as the potential end of mankind.
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"The encouraging thing is the government is now seriously preparing for no deal," Wolfson, a Conservative member of Britain's upper house of parliament, told Reuters.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's upper house of parliament will investigate anomalies in the renewal of oil leases by the ministry of petroleum, it said on Wednesday.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni won a confidence vote in the upper house Senate on Wednesday, allowing his coalition government to take office.
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The law authorising a national ID was positioned as a "financial" legislation involving welfare payments, enabling the government to bypass the Indian parliament's upper house.
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The upper house of parliament voted in December 2017 to investigate SARS and, in the same month, Idris announced that the unit would be reorganized.
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Earlier, May's trade minister, Liam Fox, accused the unelected peers in the upper house of "trying to block the democratic will of the British people".
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The number of upper house seats will increase by three to 245 after Sunday's election, when 124 of the seats will be up for grabs.
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The announcement underscored 5-Star's determination to instill discipline in its ranks, even if it means weakening its fragile majority in the upper house Senate.
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His case is back in the news because DNA chief Kovesi tried -- and failed -- to persuade the nation's upper house to waive Oprea's parliamentary immunity.
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Bouteflika's resignation will put Abdelkader Bensalah, chairman of the upper house of parliament, in charge as caretaker president for 90 days until elections are held.
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It must be approved by the upper house of parliament before it is signed into law by President Putin, something that is normally a formality.
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Under the constitution, the chairman of parliaments upper house, Abdelkader Bensalah, would serve as caretaker president for at least 45 days if Bouteflika stepped down.
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For the draft legislation to become law, it needs to be approved by the upper house of parliament and signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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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.
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Under the constitution, the chairman of parliament's upper house, Abdelkader Bensalah, would serve as caretaker president for at least 45 days if Bouteflika stepped down.
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Congress and other opposition parties have used the upper house to thwart legislation passed by the lower house, where the BJP holds a big majority.
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His diplomatic passport—a handy perk of sitting in India's upper house of parliament, as he has done for over a decade—has been suspended.
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The "no" campaign won the referendum with around 60 percent of the vote, a rejection of a proposal to weaken the upper house of parliament.
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The effects of Article 155 are not likely to be felt for several days due to it requiring approval from the upper house of parliament.
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Rajoy would have to submit a list to the Upper House detailing the specific actions that the government is planning to take under Article 155.
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The bill moved to the upper house on Thursday and Ivana Bacik, a Labour Party lawmaker, told the newspaper that she expects it to pass.
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The Liberal Democratic Party of Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan, scored a sweeping victory in elections to the upper house of the Diet.
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Under Algeria's constitution, Abdelkader Bensalah, chairman of the upper house of parliament, would take over as caretaker president for 90 days until elections are held.
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The governing Liberal Democratic Party and its smaller ally, Komeito, face an election for the upper house of Parliament next month, adding to the pressure.
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In the upper house, Johnson turned to Michigan's Phil Hart, the liberal "conscience of the Senate," who had forged an unlikely friendship with Senator Eastland.
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The amendment was approved by Italy's upper house of parliament on Friday by 22013 to 22013 votes and still has to pass the lower house.
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"That is the way forward for the global financial system," Carney told a committee in the House of Lords, the upper house of Britain's parliament.
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The party's defection last month greatly increased the likelihood that the Chamber of Deputies would send her impeachment to the Federal Senate, the upper house.
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At least that was the conclusion of a report on Brexit released by the House of Lords, the upper house of Britain's Parliament: Oh my!
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"I would like to report to parliament after strictly investigating whether this was a cover-up," Onodera told an upper house parliamentary committee on Thursday.
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To become law, the upper house Senate must also pass what is known as a counterpart bill but it has yet to begin drafting one.
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The data also raises the pressure on Abe's government before upper house elections next month and the announcement of an economic stimulus package this autumn.
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Meanwhile in Poland, the populist Law and Justice (PiS) party secured a second term in power following Sunday's parliamentary election, but lost the upper house.
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The upper house of Congress approved the budget with 79 votes in favor and 10 against and sent it to the executive branch for signing.
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But in a sign of the volatile public mood, a lawmaker in India's upper house suggested that rapists should be strung up before a mob.
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Kaczynski ordered a meeting between the speaker of the upper house of parliament and about a dozen media representatives at short notice late on Saturday.
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The second initiative is a proposed amendment to California's Constitution that would change the method for dividing districts of the Legislature's upper house, the Senate.
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Still, these are essentially the sorts of fundraising numbers Democrats should hope to see in their uphill battle to regain control of Congress's upper house.
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The unelected upper house of parliament, the House of Lords, will also debate the deal, but will only be asked to "take note" of it.
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Lately, I've been building a wall (in the studio), and fixing a fixer-upper house, so there are lots of materials that feel like that.
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On July 228st Japan will go to the polls to vote for 213 of 221 seats in the upper house, where members sit for six years.
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The bill Putin submitted Thursday comes into force as soon as it passes the upper house of parliament and is officially published in a state newspaper.
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"Flynn, unlike many other high-ranking Americans, was at least open to dialogue," said Konstantin Kosachev, head of the upper house of parliament's foreign affairs committee.
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One was to reduce the powers of the Senate, the powerful upper house, by turning it into an indirectly elected assembly of regional and municipal appointees.
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In his resignation letter, Mr Mallya declared that the allegations aired by the upper house of parliament's ethics committee last week were "blatantly false and baseless".
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Some analysts speculate that Abe could delay the tax hike again if the economy worsens further, as he faces an upper house election in the summer.
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Half the Senate is up for election at each national poll, except in rare cases when parliament is deadlocked and the entire upper house is dissolved.
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Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the international affairs committee in Russia's upper house of parliament, called the sanctions unfriendly and baseless, the state-run Interfax agency reported.
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"ETA has not achieved anything by stopping the killing and will get nothing for its dissolution announcement," the minister said in the upper house of parliament.
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Based on Article 52 of the Algerian constitution, the chairman of parliament's upper house, Abdelkader Bensalah, would serve as caretaker president for at least 45 days.
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Tokyo (CNN)Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared victory in Sunday's election, with his ruling coalition winning a majority of seats in Japan's upper house.
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He's going to come out of this election with a healthy majority in the upper house, whether or not he gets to the two-thirds line.
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Having been debated by both the lower house of parliament, the Commons, and the unelected upper house, the Lords, the bill is in its final stages.
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The leader of the opposition is also tasked with nominating two of the 21 senators in the upper house, and must be consulted on judicial appointments.
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Dean Smith, an openly gay Liberal member of the Senate (the upper house), introduced a bill to allow gay marriage within hours of the survey result.
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All the most ambitious attempts to right the fiscal ship have been sunk by the ruling coalition government's lack of power in the upper house Senate.
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"Kiev has gone from sabotaging the Minsk agreements to burying them," said Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the foreign-affairs committee in the Russian parliament's upper house.
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Lawmakers must approve the draft in three readings before it is sent it to the upper house of parliament and then President Vladimir Putin for signature.
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The bill still has to be passed by the upper house of the Polish parliament, the Senate, and signed into effect by Polish President Andrzej Duda.
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The Kremlin said on Tuesday Babich will move to another job and will be replaced by Dmitry Mezentsev, a lawmaker from the upper house of parliament.
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Hanson's One Nation briefly enjoyed the balance of power in Australia's upper house Senate in 2016 though the party split with the resignation of several lawmakers.
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The bill had previously passed the lower house by a narrow margin, and pro-choice activists were initially hopeful it would also pass the upper house.
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Proceeding with the politically unpopular hike could be risky as Abe's ruling party faces national elections for the upper house in the summer, some analysts say.
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The agreement would be reactivated with immediate effect, Viktor Ozerov, the head of the Russian upper house of parliament's defense committee told the RIA news agency.
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Doreen Massey, a peer in the upper House of Lords chamber, said people inside the parliament building were not immediately aware of what was going on.
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"Other countries in which there is hate crime legislation in place have major problems, but we do not," Stanton told members of Ireland's parliamentary upper house.
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Anti-government protests now seek the resignation of interim president Abdelkader Bensalah, a former head of the upper house of parliament, and Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui.
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The spokesman said the bill, being debated on Thursday in the upper house of parliament, could in fact raise the risk of a no-deal Brexit.
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The legislation, which is Russia's response to a new round of U.S. sanctions, must pass a third reading, before passing to the upper house of parliament.
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A committee of various states' finance ministers helped convince regional parties in the upper house, which Mr Modi's government does not control, to clear the blockage.
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Western Europe's first anti-establishment government, which faces its first confidence vote in the upper house Senate on Tuesday, seems determined to hit the ground running.
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However, with seats in the upper house to be reallocated soon to reflect gains by Modi in state elections, the government hopes to break the deadlock.
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With its junior partner, Komeito, the LDP won 70 out of the 121 seats up for grabs (half the upper house), admittedly on a low turnout.
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Key decisions on Brexit are looming after Parliament's upper house -- the House of Lords -- inflicted a series of damaging defeats, which ministers have vowed to overturn.
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It may, however, encounter more problems in the Bundesrat upper house if the Greens, many of whom oppose the reform, vote against it in mid-October.
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Kirby will still be responsible for answering questions from lawmakers in the House of Commons while Neville-Rolfe will lead in the upper House of Lords.
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The Rosatellum law will be voted on in the Upper House this week and is expected to pass and then pave the way for early elections.
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"You only need a few votes to make the coalition wobble in the Senate," said Luigi Zanda, the head of the PD in the upper house.
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Privert has strong support in the upper house, and legislators have failed to meet at all lately, making it unlikely they will vote to remove him.
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs put it at just under 55 percent, only slightly higher than results three years ago in the last upper house election.
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If successful, Turnbull's high-risk election strategy will also clear out parliament's upper house, the Senate, potentially giving the coalition a clearer passageway for favored bills.
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"The executive arm is working hard to get the list to the senate," said Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan on the floor of the upper house of parliament.
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The plan calls for the abolition of an elected upper house and its replacement with a chamber of regional representatives which will have much reduced powers.
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Members of the upper house, which represents Germany's 16 federal states, voted unanimously in favor of an application to the constitutional court to stop the financing.
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Konstantin Kosachyov, who heads the foreign relations committee in Russia's upper house of parliament, called on Moscow to devise a "painful" response to the U.S. move.
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He has said he wants debate on the topic to be a focal point in a July 21 upper-house election, but constitutional revision is controversial.
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"Vladimir Vladimirovich must have the right to run in new competitive nationwide elections," said Valentina Matviyenko, the speaker of the upper house, calling the amendment timely.
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The upper house of Parliament, the Federation Council, must approve the version of the plan passed Wednesday by the Duma, and Mr. Putin must sign it.
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Valentina Matvienko, speaker of the upper house Federation Council, said parliament would approve the amendments before the end of its spring session, Interfax news agency reported.
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The president would remain a major player, retaining the power to appoint leaders of the armed forces and law enforcement, after consulting the parliament's upper house.
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ABUJA, April 27 (Reuters) - Nigeria's upper house of parliament aims to pass the government's 2017 spending plan next week, Senate leader Ahmed Lawan said on Thursday.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's upper house of parliament plans to investigate an alleged $3.5 billion fuel subsidy fund at state-oil firm NNPC, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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The state news agency PAP quoted the speaker of the upper house, the Senate, as saying there might be an additional sitting of parliament next week.
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While the BJP has a clear majority in the lower house, it is underrepresented in the upper house, which has stymied some of its reform proposals.
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The bill passed the upper house of India's parliament with 125 members supporting it and 105 opposing on Wednesday, a day after clearing the lower house.
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Experts said Mr. Modi's win in Uttar Pradesh meant his party would be able to take control of the upper house of India's Parliament next year.
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Even if passed this week the tax could still be changed in the upper house, where the law should be re-examined in May or June.
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In a vote televised live on NHK public television, the upper house of parliament passed the bill with a handful of lawmakers sitting out the vote.
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After Rajoy announces the direct control measures on Saturday, Spain's upper house will have to approve them in a session which could take place on Oct.
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He has practiced as a lawyer in the Supreme Court and served as a B.J.P. member of the upper house of Parliament from 1994 to 2006.
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The senator who ushered the bill through the upper house is the father of the Minister of Energy, who championed the program from the executive branch.
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The legislation will now have to pass through several other congressional committees before being put to vote in the floor of the lower and upper house.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish opposition parties have joined forces to try to win a majority in the upper house of parliament, the Senate, in parliamentary elections on Oct.
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They ultimately decided to miniaturize the circular pinhole-style venting pattern of the One S, but with the perforations only along the sides of the upper house.
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Christian Croat and Muslim Bosniak political parties are currently deadlocked over amendments to the law on voting for the upper house of parliament of their joint Federation.
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Russian lawmaker Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the international affairs committee of Russia's upper house of parliament, described the action as baseless and unfriendly, Interfax news agency reported.
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The bill to remove Burundi from the court's jurisdiction still must be approved by the upper house of the legislature and then be signed by the president.
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Following a declaration of independence in Catalonia the upper house of Spain's parliament authorized the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to rule Catalonia directly from Madrid.
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The upper house of parliament also voted on Tuesday in favour of an amendment whereby Britain would continue to participate in EU agencies after leaving the bloc.
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Moody's Investors Service on Monday joined Standard and Poor's in expressing concern that a splintered upper house Senate would stymie agreement on fiscal consolidation and macroeconomic policy.
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The 221-year-old sitting congressman was ranked in the 24th to 14th position for 12 vacant seats in the upper house of Congress in a Feb.
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Even before Maranhao changed tacks, his counterpart in the upper house, Renan Calheiros, had dismissed the motion and said that the proceedings would carry on as planned.
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Britain's Brexit bill, which will permit the government to negotiate the country's departure from the EU, was debated by the House of Lords, Parliament's unelected upper house.
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The bill, which passed parliament's upper house on Saturday, also criminalises other forms of gender violence such as forced marriage, trafficking for sexual slavery and sexual harassment.
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Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the foreign-affairs committee of the upper house of parliament, said that the administration appeared to have "copied the Kremlin's phone book".
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Speculation has simmered that Abe might dissolve parliament's lower house and call an election on the same day as an upper house poll is due in July.
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The first bill was passed by the lower house of Congress in May; the upper house is expected to follow suit by the end of the year.
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The simplest solution is to extend the rules for the lower house - a double ballot system that hands power to a single party - to the upper house.
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Some analysts speculate Abe may postpone the tax hike again, especially if he deemed it too politically risky ahead of an upper house election around mid-2019.
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Italy's upper house Senate on Saturday gave parliament's final approval to the government's 2018 budget, clearing the way for national elections expected to be held in March.
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The new law — which passed through Japan's lower house of Parliament in April, and the upper house today — also proposes the government consider several other royal reforms.
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The prime minister's ruling coalition won a majority in Japan's upper house, but slack turnout denied him enough seats to scrap the country's constitutional commitment to pacifism.
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Polish media have reported that PiS, which also holds 48 upper house seats, has made overtures to opposition senators in an attempt to establish a working majority.
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"The free trade system based on free and fair common rules is the source of growth for the world economy," Abe told parliament's upper house on Wednesday.
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Berlusconi, 82, a flamboyant media mogul and scandal-prone center-right politician, was expelled from the upper house Senate and barred from office after his graft conviction.
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Speaking at the Federation Council, Russia's upper house of parliament, Vagit Alekperov said prices would stay in an "acceptable range" thanks to coordination between leading global producers.
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Oliveira, who was elected head of Brazil's upper house of Congress in February and is one of 24 senators under investigation for corruption, was in stable condition.
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The Senate, Nigeria's upper house of parliament, voted in favor of the ban, saying the cough syrup trade profited Islamist insurgency Boko Haram in the country's northeast.
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Renzi has promised to resign if Italians reject his plan to drastically reduce the role of the upper house Senate and claw back powers from regional authorities.
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Abe called for fiscal stimulus, expected to reach about 2 percent of GDP, following an upper house election victory that strengthened his grip on power on Sunday.
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This year, for the first time, he is fielding candidates for all of South Australia's lower house seats, and for the upper house in all six states.
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But Minami, a high-schooler from Tokyo, does not plan to vote in an election for the upper house of the Diet, or parliament, on July 10th.
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Michael Cucek of Temple University says that the upper house is the last place where Japan can plausibly claim still to have a real two-party system.
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Germany has allowed same-sex civil partnerships since 2001, and Germany's upper house of Parliament, the Bundesrat, approved a bill in favor of gay marriage last fall.
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THE ELECTION in July for the upper house of Japan's parliament was "remarkably unfair", Kazuhiko Tomita, a judge on the northerly island of Hokkaido, ruled in October.
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But a Conservative member of the upper house of parliament and former government polling adviser, Andrew Cooper, accused Johnson of "moral emptiness" and populism over the remarks.
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A bill to teach sex education and provide access to contraceptives in schools was introduced into Kenya's upper house of parliament in 2014, provoking a national outcry.
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Abe timed the initial flare-up to coincide with Japan's Upper House elections, with regional tensions helping the prime minister's party cling on to a slim majority.
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Shah proposed revoking Article 370 amid an uproar in India's upper house of Parliament, and was expected to address the lower house on the issue later Monday.
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Thais will be voting for the 500-seat lower house of parliament, while the 250-member upper house, or Senate, will be chosen entirely by the military.
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"I think Trump shared the view that our monetary policy is not for currency manipulation but for ending deflation," Abe said in the upper house of parliament.
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Any ruling that he is not fit to rule would have to be ratified by members of parliament's lower and upper house by a two-thirds majority.
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Under Article 102 of the constitution, the chairman of parliament's upper house, Abdelkader Bensalah, would serve as caretaker president for at least 45 days after Bouteflika's departure.
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But, even here, the constitutional crisis caused by the upper house denying the will of both a referendum and the Commons would severely undermine the chamber's legitimacy.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's far-right party Vox debuted in the upper house of parliament by blocking a motion calling for an official stance against homophobia in sport.
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Because his Democratic Party does not have a majority in the 315-seat upper house Senate, it needs Verdini's 20153 senators to get any justice reforms approved.
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If the amendment to the penal code passes the upper house of the Asian nation's parliament, 29 countries will remain worldwide where same-sex relations are illegal.
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After final approval in the lower house, the bill will move to the upper-house Senate and must be turned into law by the end of June.
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Ms. Soundararajan said that such speech on Indian Facebook pages started to increase in early 2018 when the country held elections for the upper house of Parliament.
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Bouteflika has been replaced by Abdelkader Bensalah, head of the upper house of parliament, as interim president for 90 days until a presidential election on July 4.
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The Russian foreign ministry has demanded Norway lift "the absurd charges" and release Bochkaryov, whom it identified as a staff member of the Russian parliament's upper house.
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The GST Bill, which has been listed for discussion by the upper house of parliament on Wednesday, would be the most far-reaching tax reform in India.
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It cleared the Rajya Sabha, India's upper house of parliament where the BJP lacks a clear majority, on Wednesday with 125 votes in favor and 105 against.
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The prime minister is hoping to win that state to gain control over the upper house of Parliament, demonstrating strength in advance of national elections in 2000.
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German lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the legalization of same-sex marriage in a vote Friday, which stands to likely pass the upper house vote next week, CNN reports.
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So far, M5S has opposed the center-right's choice of Paolo Romani for speaker of the upper house, however, meaning Friday's vote is far from clear cut.
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Modi's national victory gave him control of the lower house of Parliament, but he does not control the upper house, which is largely elected by state legislatures.
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Thais will be voting for the 500-seat lower house of parliament, while the 20163-member upper house, or Senate, will be chosen entirely by the military.
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He will not run for the U.S. Senate, despite encouragement from party leaders to do so and help Democrats wrest control of Congress' upper house from Republicans.
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Support for One Nation peaked at 11 percent of the primary vote two years ago, when it held the balance of power in the upper house Senate.
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If Mr. Modi can win here, he will control the upper house of Parliament, which has successfully stymied his economic agenda since his landslide victory in 2014.
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In comments to an upper house financial committee meeting on Thursday, Kuroda dismissed wider criticism that the policy was a failure amid a surge in the yen.
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The draft law faced opposition from politicians including members of a small centrist group which supports Gentiloni's Democratic Party's (PD) slim majority in the upper house Senate.
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The island's 40-member Consultative Council, the upper house of the Bahrain Parliament appointed by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, voted for the measure on Sunday.
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A raft of smaller parties, it seems, will ascend to the upper house — and will have plenty of leeway to hold up, block, or change government legislation.
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That's why the company is offering Japanese teens heavily discounted matcha soft-serve in return for casting a vote during the Upper House election early next month.
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Rajoy, who acted with backing from the main opposition party in Madrid and King Felipe, needs the authorization of Spain's upper house of parliament to impose direct rule.
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An effort to repeal a law on "fake news", which allows the government to criminalise unfriendly reporting, was stymied in the upper house last year by the opposition.
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ABUJA, July 24 (Reuters) - The president of Nigeria's upper house of parliament on Tuesday said his chances of leaving President Muhammadu Buhari's ruling party are "very, very high".
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The reform reduces the role of the upper house Senate and claws back powers from regional authorities — measures that the government says will bring political stability to Italy.
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State MPs vote in indirect elections for both the Rajya Sabha, India's upper house of parliament, and for India's presidency, a position that will fall vacant in July.
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Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, a former senior minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government who also chairs the upper house, must now decide whether the petition merits debate.
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The levy, part of a wider biodiversity bill expected to be adopted on Friday, still needs to be reviewed in the upper house, likely in May or June.
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ABUJA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Nigeria's 7.753 budget moved a step closer on Thursday to becoming law, as it passed its second reading in the upper house of parliament.
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However, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said last week that the administration realised Abe faced an upper house election in July that could make an early deal tough.
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MOSCOW, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The Russian central bank is concerned by regions' debt to banks, central bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina told the upper house of parliament on Wednesday.
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The channel is also owned by Subhash Chandra, the nominee from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party for the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of India's parliament.
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Yet barely eight months on, this national hero is facing expulsion from the movement's group in the upper house, having twice put his conscience ahead of his party.
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About 25 million Italians are eligible to vote on Renzi's plan to drastically reduce the role of the upper house Senate and claw back powers from regional authorities.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's upper house of parliament approved on Wednesday a government request to borrow up to 20 billion euros ($20.8 billion) to underwrite the country's troubled banks.
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Image 2 of 2 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan&aposs upper house of parliament has passed a bill giving equal rights to 5 million people in the restive northwestern tribal region.
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Many transgender people oppose the bill, which has yet to pass through the upper house, because it denies them the right to self-certify in their new gender.
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The lackluster data also ramps up pressure on Abe's government before elections to the upper house this Sunday and the announcement of an economic stimulus package this autumn.
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Wolfson, a Conservative Party member of Britain's upper house of parliament and prominent supporter of the UK leaving the European Union was speaking after Next updated on trading.
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His appointment has been approved by the Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, and is now due to be ratified by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Bundesbank said.
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Aso told reporters after a cabinet meeting that the election gave the ruling coalition a stable political footing by giving it a solid majority in the upper house.
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"At this time, it's difficult for Mir to compete with Visa and Mastercard," Valentina Matviyenko, the speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament, said this month.
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The legislation needs approval from the upper house of parliament, which is likely to happen next week, and the signature of President Vladimir Putin before it becomes law.
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Abenomics will be put to the test in Japan's upper house election on July 21, with opposition parties focusing on what they call a threat to voters' finances.
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Italian magistrates placed the interior minister under investigation for kidnapping, but the upper house Senate blocked the probe in February, ruling that Salvini should benefit from parliamentary immunity.
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Brushing off concerns - even from within Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition - over gambling addiction and other social ills, lawmakers in an upper house committee approved the bill.
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The Dutch upper House of parliament on Tuesday passed a law banning the wearing of face-covering veils in public buildings, such as schools, government offices and hospitals.
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Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says his plan to curb the roles of the upper house Senate and regional governments will bring greater stability to Italy and accelerate lawmaking.
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The upper house of Parliament, controlled by the country's ruling party -- the Law and Justice party, or PiS -- continued to debate the proposal on Friday as protests grew.
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If Article 155 is triggered Thursday its effects would not be felt for several days due to it requiring approval from the upper house of parliament, the Senate.
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Rajoy, who acted with backing from the main opposition party in Madrid and King Felipe, needs the authorisation of Spain's upper house of parliament to impose direct rule.
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It is the state assemblies that elect members of the upper house of parliament, where Modi's ruling coalition does not have the majority necessary to pass contentious legislation.
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Modi's party, which lacks a majority in parliament's upper house, had reached out to Congress to end its opposition to the GST bill, stalled in parliament for years.
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The bill, which was passed in the lower house of parliament earlier this month, is expected to face resistance from the opposition Congress party in the upper house.
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They called on the upper house to review the bill to ensure it reflected the Supreme Court's ruling, which included self-identification and quotas in jobs and schools.
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Palmer will also make an announcement about his party's Western Australia Senate team, prompting media speculation that he may seek a seat in the upper house of parliament.
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Experts said relabelling could be a strategic mistake, especially since voters will have little time to grow accustomed to the new name by a July upper house election.
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Berlusconi was convicted of tax fraud in 2013, triggering his expulsion from the upper house of parliament and a bar on holding any elected position for six years.
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ALGIERS, April 9 (Reuters) - Thousands of students protested in downtown Algiers after parliament appointed upper house chairman Abdelkader Bensalah as interim president on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said.
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The new standoff, raw and unpredictable, has been likened to a "fight without rules" by Konstantin Kosachev, head of the upper house of Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee.
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The government does not hold a majority in the upper house Senate and Morrison will probably need the support of several independents to pass his signature tax cuts.
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Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who won the obligatory vote of confidence in the lower house on Monday, faces another such motion in the upper house Senate on Tuesday.
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To become law, the measure still requires approval by the upper house of Parliament and the signature of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier; neither appeared to be in doubt.
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Hammond told lawmakers in Britain's upper house that the timing of the budget had been complicated by the prospect of a special European Union council meeting in November.
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Japan's upper house of parliament is also due for elections next year and making too many concessions with the U.S. may hurt his political support base, analysts said.
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The measure now moves to the upper house, the Rajya Sabha, where Mr. Modi seems to have enough allies that most analysts predict it will soon become law.
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Right-wing parties called it a threat to national culture and security, and senators clashed in the upper house of parliament when the bill was discussed in June.
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If the changes are adopted, it will goes to the national assembly for vote, then to the upper house and finally to the president to sign into law.
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ABUJA, March 14 (Reuters) - Nigerian lawmakers aim to pass the 2017 budget by the end of March, the president of the upper house of parliament said on Tuesday.
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Peter Hain, a former Northern Ireland minister and Labour lawmaker in the House of Lords, Britain's unelected upper house, accused Corbyn of carrying out of a "Stalinist purge".
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"We will investigate this — you can be sure," Lindsay McCain, a fiery Republican member of the upper house of America's legislature, told reporters outside the opulent capitol building.
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However, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said last week that the administration realized Abe faced an upper house election in July that could make an early deal tough.
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Translation: Under Mayer, Yahoo has a number of potentially costly and problematic issues, kind of akin to finding out that a fixer-upper house has extensive plumbing problems.
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Protesters are now seeking the resignation of Bensalah, a former head of the upper house of parliament, and Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui, whom they regard as close to Bouteflika.
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The lower house of parliament backed the package, which controversially links tax reforms to extra funding for the state pension system, after the upper house approved a similar version.
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Most states follow an impeachment process modeled on that of the federal government: a majority vote of the lower House and a two-thirds vote of the upper House.
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On Monday, a committee from the National Assembly and the upper house Senate jointly agreed amendments to the text of the law, making passage of it all but certain.
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The chairman of the international affairs committee of Russia's upper house of parliament, Konstantin Kosachev, described the air strikes as a groundless attack on a sovereign government, Interfax said.
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But his nationalist coalition still lacks a majority in the upper house that represents India's 29 states and has proven to be a stumbling block for its legislative agenda.
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The Asahi also reported that Abe would forgo calling a snap election of the lower house of parliament, instead focusing on an upper house election already scheduled in July.
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The leader of Australia's conservative coalition prompted Saturday's election by dissolving both houses of parliament in May, blaming intransigent independents in the upper house Senate for blocking his agenda.
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The upper house of Somalia's parliament in January approved the petroleum law aimed at providing a regulatory framework that will help attract investment in exploration by major oil companies.
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They wanted it to represent places, not people, and there is a case for that; other constitutions, such as Germany's, look to ensure regional representation in their upper house.
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Stephen Parry, who is president of Australia&aposs upper house, says he has contacted UK authorities to check if he holds dual citizenship because of his British-born father.
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Bouteflika has been replaced by Abdelkader Bensalah, head of the upper house of parliament, as interim president for 90 days until a presidential election is held on July 4.
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Despite losing that battle, Irani was rewarded with a cabinet post and a nominated seat in the upper house of the Parliament when Modi became Prime Minister in 2014.
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After Thursday&aposs approval in the National Assembly, the bill will to go to the upper house of parliament, or Senate, for endorsement there before it can become law.
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Godfrey Cromwell, a member of Britain's upper House of Lords, was appointed this month to lead Banking Competition Remedies, the body that will hand out the grants to banks.
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It can also be held up by so-called 'ping pong', whereby a bill goes back and forth between the lower and upper house being amended and voted on.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Tuesday that the government won voters' confidence in a planned sales tax hike in October through Sunday's upper house election.
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Had Abe's coalition won two-thirds of the upper house, his administration might have turned to pushing through a controversial constitutional amendment releasing the Japanese army from pacifist constraints.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's upper house of parliament on Tuesday inflicted another defeat on Prime Minister Theresa May's government, voting in favour of staying in the European Union's single market.
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Members of the upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, are chosen by politicians in Russia's more than 80 regions who, in most cases, are loyal to United Russia.
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All were senators, which meant seats in the upper house of parliament could be assigned to party alternatives if they were ruled ineligible, rather than hold more by-elections.
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Pro-EU campaigners, buoyed by government defeats in the upper House of Lords, are stepping up their calls for Britain to keep as close as possible to the bloc.
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But the amendment - also barring civil courts from hearing disputes related to enemy property - was passed late on Friday by the upper house, despite a walkout by opposition members.
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On the surface, political parties including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) are targeting youth, especially teens, ahead of the July 10 election for parliament's upper house.
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Legislation was rushed into the national parliament's upper house Senate late on Wednesday, even as colorful celebrations in the major cities continued and congratulations rolled in from international supporters.
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Following the U.S. attack, the head of Russia's upper house of Parliament's defense committee said Moscow would call for an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting, Reuters reported citing RIA.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's High Court on Friday said nationalist politician and senator Malcolm Roberts was a citizen of Britain at the time of his nomination to parliament's upper house.
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Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior partner, the Komeito party, were assured 71 of the 124 seats being contested in parliament's 245-seat upper house, NHK showed.
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Parliament is highly fragmented and it was not immediately clear whether Gentiloni could win a necessary confidence vote in the upper house Senate later this week without Verdini's support.
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LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney appeared on Tuesday before the Economic Affairs Committee in the upper house of Britain's parliament, the House of Lords.
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As expected, this year's election produced a slight increase in upper-house seats for the BJP and a slight loss to Congress, with the balance held by regional parties.
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The reform needs a two-thirds majority to amend the constitution and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist coalition lacks the votes it needs in the upper house of parliament.
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The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, Italy's second largest party, dismissed his comments and said it would present its no confidence motion in the upper house Senate next week.
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NHK public television said shortly after midnight that Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner Komeito had won 69 seats in the upper house, with nine seats remaining.
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The upper house agreed that its committee on banking, insurance and other financial institutions would "carry out a holistic investigation into the matter and report back to the Senate".
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When Japan goes to the polls to elect members to its upper house of Parliament on Sunday, the nation's newly enfranchised teenagers are expected to make a lackluster showing.
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However, on Tuesday Britain's upper house of parliament inflicted another embarrassing defeat on Prime Minister Theresa May's government, challenging her plan to leave the EU's single market after Brexit.
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Many Britons would, for example, be glad to see the royal prerogative increased in certain fields, like the distribution of titles and seats in the upper house of Parliament.
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Pacquiao, who has courted controversy with comments against gays and same-sex marriage, is running for one of 12 vacant seats in the Senate, the upper house of parliament.
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Valentina Matvienko, speaker of Russia's upper house, has accused America of launching a "government propaganda machine" that has "begun to persecute Russian media," according to Russian news agency Interfax.
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Japan's export curbs came just ahead of a July 21 upper-house election that Abe needs to win big to keep alive his hopes of revising the pacifist constitution.
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The export curbs come weeks ahead of a July 21 upper house election that Abe's Liberal Democrats and their junior partner are expected to win with a solid majority.
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"The less American interference, the fewer American soldiers, the better for everyone," said Andrei A. Klimov, deputy head of the foreign affairs committee of Russia's upper house of Parliament.
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Neale Richmond, a member of Ireland's governing Fine Gael party and chairman of the upper house of parliament's Brexit committee, said the Good Friday Agreement cannot be renegotiated lightly.
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Ultimately, the house approved the bill just before midnight Wednesday by a vote of 90 to 15, with 12 abstentions, and it moved on Thursday to the upper house.
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The constitution stipulates that the prime minister needs at least 376 votes - a majority of the House of Representatives' 500 seats and the upper house Senate's 250 seats combined.
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But what to do now that, as Oleg Morozov, a member of the foreign affairs committee of Russia's upper house of Parliament, declared this week, "The enemy is dead"?
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The estimates came a month after July's upper house polls, raising some speculation that the government may have delayed the release until the elections were out of the way.
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Earlier this year, the upper house of India's Parliament failed to pass a bill that would have enacted many of the same provisions in the ordinance approved on Wednesday.
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Lawmakers can now suggest amendments to the law, which will then be sent on to the upper house, where the Socialists and their allies have a majority, for confirmation.
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Turnbull does not control the Senate, and Parry's departure will not change the dynamics of the upper house where seats are assigned to party alternatives when an incumbent resigns.
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But during his first two years after winning national election, Mr. Modi, whose party did not control the upper house of Parliament, struggled to achieve a significant economic overhaul.
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Mr. Rizvi came from a prominent real estate family based in Mumbai; his father, Akhtar Hasan Rizvi, is a former member of the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
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Berlusconi was convicted of tax fraud in 2013, triggering his expulsion from the upper house of parliament and an automatic bar on holding any elected position for six years.
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Defections have cost the ruling APC its majority in the Senate, parliament's upper house, presenting a challenge to Buhari's re-election bid by closing access to key patronage networks.
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Franz Klintsevich, a member of the upper house of the Russian Parliament's security committee, said Kiev would consider arms supplies as support of its actions, Interfax news agency reported.
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Franz Klintsevich, a member of the upper house of the Russian parliament's security committee, said Kiev would consider arms supplies as support of its actions, Interfax news agency reported.
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That stance has widened divisions within the party and raised the prospect of a defeat in parliament's upper House of Lords, where the Conservatives do not command a majority.
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His Liberal Democratic Party suffered a massive defeat in a 2007 upper house election during his first stint as premier partly because of voter outrage over misplaced pension records.
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Abe's ruling bloc is unlikely to lose its upper house majority but the fuss has trimmed his support and a weak performance would hamper efforts to cement his legacy.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's upper house of parliament on Tuesday inflicted another defeat on Prime Minister Theresa May's government, voting in favor of staying in the European Union's single market.
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The legislation is not expected to be blocked by lords, but the government could be forced into making concessions as it does not have a majority in the upper house.
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Voters will also choose all members of the upper house for the first time since 1987 after the government dissolved both houses of parliament after the Senate repeatedly blocked legislation.
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James noted that a majority of Conservative and opposition Labour lawmakers had backed staying in the EU before the referendum, along with most members of the upper House of Lords.
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A bill to legalize casinos in Japan cleared an important parliamentary panel on Truesday, and is expected to be approved by the full chamber of the upper house on Wednesday.
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Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, speaker of the upper house of parliament, will take over as Kazakhstan's acting president for the remainder of his term in line with the constitution, Nazarbayev said.
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The bills - which now require only President Vladimir Putin's signature before becoming law - received broad support in the upper house, days after thousands rallied to protest at tightening Internet restrictions.
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Russia's human rights council and a group of over a hundred writers, poets, journalists and rights activists called on the upper house of parliament on Tuesday to reject the law.
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The government does not have a majority in the upper house, meaning that when peers from opposition parties and politically neutral members join forces, they are almost guaranteed to win.
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Jaitley's meeting with state ministers was aimed at putting pressure on Congress, which, with its 60 members in the 245-member upper house, holds the key to the bill's fate.
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"There's never been anything like this before, it's 100% organized telephone terrorism," Russian lawmaker Frants Klintsevich, deputy head of the Defense Committee in the upper house of parliament, told Bloomberg.
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Scrapping Sections 213 and 214 of the code, criminalising "unnatural sex" - widely read as homosexuality - still needs to be ratified by Bhutan's upper house, the National Council, to become law.
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Renzi has said he will retire from politics if Italians reject his proposals to wrest decision-making autonomy from the regions and reduce the powers of the upper house senate.
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Abe is counting on the plan - a centerpiece of a mid-year raft of policy announcements - to boost flagging consumption and win votes ahead of a July upper house election.
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" Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of upper house of parliament's foreign affairs committee, to Interfax news agency: "... Last respects have been paid to al-Baghdadi at least five times in the past.
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Their ire was warranted: the government had promised that this particular bill, which the Upper House had already blocked both on the floor and in committee, would not be tabled.
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But after an election in July, Mr Turnbull clings to power with a majority of just one in the lower house of parliament and a minority in the upper house.
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Late last year, the upper house Senate rejected a government proposal on the matter, with opponents saying they believed it was best dealt with by a free vote in parliament.
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In their meeting with the Federation Council, parliament's upper house, the group listened as Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Konstantin Kosachev complained about the latest round of sanctions against Russian individuals.
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Iwata also said the BOJ is not relying on a weak yen to meet its 2 percent inflation target, in comments before the upper house fiscal and monetary policy committee.
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Women's groups said they were encouraged that parliament's more conservative upper house, known as the House of Elders, had approved the bill with 35 out of 50 votes in favor.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's ruling bloc enacted a law targeting conspiracies to commit terrorism and other serious crimes on Thursday, pushing it through parliament's upper house despite concerns over civil liberties.
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The Senate, parliament's upper house, has agreed to investigate the allegations made by one of its members against MTN, which has suffered a series of setbacks in its biggest market.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Upper House of parliament on Tuesday passed a law banning the wearing of face-covering veils in public buildings, such as schools, government offices and hospitals.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signalled a fresh round of fiscal stimulus after a victory for his ruling coalition in upper house elections, sending the yen lower and stocks higher.
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Since taking office in 2015, Trudeau has appointed a range of non-partisan community leaders to the upper house, giving him less leverage to pressure them to support his agenda.
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If Mr Abe clings to power as his popularity ebbs, Mr Koizumi warned, his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could suffer in next year's election for the upper house of parliament.
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Abes coalition is expected to win a solid majority in an upper house election on Sunday but ruling bloc lawmakers have avoided discussing the possible maritime mission during the campaign.
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The system's most striking feature is the upper house of clan elders, known as the "Guurti", which ensures broadly representative government and underpins much of the country's consensual political culture.
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If he is suspended, an ally of Rousseff, Senator Jorge Viana, would become the acting president of the Senate in the middle of her impeachment trial in the upper house.
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The upper house of Nigeria's parliament agreed on Tuesday to investigate whether Africa's biggest telecoms company illegally transferred the money out of the West African country between 2006 and 2016.
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Opposition parties say Prayuth's candidacy, combined with electoral laws allowing the junta to appoint the 250-seat upper house Senate, could result in an elected government that extends military influence.
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Voting is underway in Japan's general election, where a record number of women are running for office to fill 22012 of the 22017 seats in the upper House of Councilors.
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However, 5-Star leader Luigi Di Maio hinted at a possible solution after talks with the head of the upper house, who is acting as a mediator between the parties.
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Last week, 16 lawmakers in the upper house left the APC, as did 32 in the lower house and this month an APC faction said it no longer backed Buhari.
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As the largest party in the upper house that represents the states, it had blocked the GST and derailed Modi's land acquisition bill which critics branded as being "anti-farmer".
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Bensalah, who has been re-elected upper house chairman repeatedly for almost 20 years, then said he would organise free elections that are expected to be held within 90 days.
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NPD is currently embroiled in a fight with the upper house of Germany's parliament, which argues that the party is racist and antisemitic, and is seeking to have it banned.
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The betting is that he would fix the election for the same time as a scheduled poll in June or July for half of the seats in the upper house.
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Mr Abe might pick up seats in the upper house, and also be able to rely on the help of a small right-wing party called Osaka Ishin no Kai.
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Given the Abe coalition's strong majority in the upper house, the bill is almost certain to be approved by the full chamber on Wednesday, the last day of this session.
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Harding, who has been a consistent thorn in the side of BT, said she would focus on public service, including her role in the upper house of the British parliament.
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Before becoming law, they would have to be approved by the lower house three times and then by the upper house before being signed into law by President Vladimir Putin.
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Abe's coalition is expected to win a solid majority in an upper house election on Sunday but ruling bloc lawmakers have avoided discussing the possible maritime mission during the campaign.
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Thirty-five years later, Kimura, now 54, found herself addressing thousands of cheering, boisterous supporters from her wheelchair at a campaign event ahead of Japan's July 21 upper house election.
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The proposal will only become law if it is backed in three votes by the lower house of parliament and then approved by the upper house and President Vladimir Putin.
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The previous legislation was passed in December by India's lower house of parliament - where the ruling party holds a majority - but lapsed after it did not clear the upper house.
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Kuroda, speaking in the upper house of parliament, also said he felt the BOJ would be able to manage its exit smoothly, including reducing the size of its balance sheet.
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The amendment is likely to clear the upper house after the opposition Congress party, which originally proposed the GST while in power, wrung concessions from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
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Under Myanmar's indirect system for electing a president, three candidates are nominated - one by the lower house, one by the upper house, and one by the military bloc in parliament.
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Speculation has swirled that Abe may call a poll for the lower house of parliament to coincide with an election for the upper house that must be held this summer.
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With the help of like-minded parties, that may be thinkable if the LDP does well in both the upper-house election and a snap poll for the lower house.
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ROME, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Italy's upper house of parliament approved on Wednesday a government request to borrow up to 20 billion euros ($20.8 billion) to underwrite the country's troubled banks.
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The GPIF, which normally publishes its annual results in early July, has postponed them until the end of the month, after an election for the upper house of the Diet.
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The law, which was passed by Japan's upper house on Friday, will allow home-owners to let out their property to paying guests for up to 180 days per year.
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Russia plans to station the bombers at the Gvardeyskoye air base in Crimea, Viktor Bondarev, head of the upper house of parliament's defense and security committee, was quoted as saying.
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Until last year, India was trying to tweak its archaic Drugs and Cosmetics Act of 1940, and an amendment bill was introduced in the upper house of parliament in 2013.
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The seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party in Assam will not significantly change the power equation in the upper house of Parliament, whose members are elected by state legislators.
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"We are all very angry over the terror attack in Kashmir and the deaths of our soldiers," tweeted Swapan Dasgupta, a BJP-backed member of India's upper house of parliament.
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PiS won elections in October but lost the majority in the upper house of parliament, the Senate, that has a power to delay new bills and appoint a senior figures.
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Putin announced his intention to run for another term last week and on Friday the upper house of the Russian parliament agreed on March 18 for of next year's election.
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Rajoy's announcement over the weekend, which coincided with nearly half a million people protesting in Barcelona, Catalonia's biggest city, still requires the approval of the upper house of the Senate.
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