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4 unusual facts about National Assembly


Assembleia Nacional

Assembleia Nacional is a Portuguese expression meaning National Assembly.

National Assembly

In Germany, a Nationalversammlung was elected following the revolutions of 1848–1849 and 1918–1919, to be replaced by a permanent parliament (Reichstag) later.

National People's Assembly

National Assembly, a legislature or house of a bicameral legislature in some countries

Zoubeir Turki

He founded and directed the Center for Living Art and the Belvedere; furthermore, on the political front, he was elected to the National Assembly in 1979 and a municipal councilor for the city of Tunis.


2013 Pakistan federal budget

The budget was formally presented on 1 June 2012 by Finance Minister Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh during a National Assembly session.

Abuja

Of note is the Presidential Complex, National Assembly, Supreme Court, the Nigerian National Mosque and the Nigerian National Christian Centre.

Albert Pahimi Padacké

Pahimi was elected to the National Assembly in the April 2002 parliamentary election as an RNDP-Le Réveil candidate in Pala constituency, in Mayo-Dallah Department.

Alexandre de Laborde

From 1818 to 1824, he served in the National Assembly, where he opposed the reinstallation of Ferdinand VII to the throne of Spain at the time of Trocadero (1823), with the eventual result that he found the leisure for a four-year tour of Italy, Greece, Turkey, Palestine and Egypt in the company of his son Léon de Laborde.

Alphonse-Mexil Etongo

Standing as a candidate of the Club 2002 – Party for the Unity of the Republic, Etongo ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the National Assembly in the June–August 2007 parliamentary election.

Citizen Chauvelin

The former ambassador to the United Kingdom (The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Elusive Pimpernel), Chauvelin is both a representative in the National Assembly and the chief agent of the Committee of Public Safety.

Coat of arms of Germany

During the 1848 revolution, a new Reich coat of arms was adopted by the National Assembly that convened in St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt.

Concerned Citizens' Movement

Led by Vance Amory, the party currently holds two of the eleven seats in the National Assembly.

Constitution of Afghanistan

The constitution provides for an elected President and National Assembly.

David Kimutai Too

He was a high school teacher and then a headmaster from Kericho in central Kenya before being elected to the National Assembly from Ainamoi Constituency from a field of 13 candidates in the December 2007 parliamentary election.

Declaration of Pillnitz

The National Assembly of France interpreted the declaration to mean that Leopold was going to declare war; radical Frenchmen who called for war, such as Jacques Pierre Brissot, used it as a pretext to gain influence and declare war on 20 April 1792, leading to the campaigns of 1792 in the French Revolutionary Wars.

Gil Montilla

Gil Montilla (born September 11, 1876; date of death unknown) was a Filipino politician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly from 1935 to 1938, and a member of the Philippine Senate

Guy Drut

The move caused great controversy, including within the majority members of Parliament: president of the National Assembly Jean-Louis Debré commented that it gave an unpleasant impression of "self-washing machine" but said it was a "courageous" move that he would not have made;

Guy Scott

He was elected as Member of Parliament for Mpika on the MMD ticket in the National Assembly during the 1991 general election and was subsequently appointed as Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries.

Hermann Burmeister

In 1848, during the revolutionary excitement, he was sent by the city of Halle as deputy to the national assembly, and subsequently by the town of Leibnitz to the first Prussian chamber.

HIMA Youth Initiative

Two prominent opposition leaders and Ter-Petrossian supporters- Nikol Pashinyan, the editor of “Haykakan Zhamanak”, Armenia’s best-selling daily newspaper, and Khachatur Sukiasyan, Member of National Assembly and a top figure in Armenia’s business circles, are on the run and wanted by the police.

Honorine Dossou Naki

In the December 2001 parliamentary election, Dossou Naki was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) in Ogooué-Maritime Province.

Isaac René Guy le Chapelier

Le Chapelier introduced a motion in the National Assembly which prohibited guilds, trade unions, and compagnonnage (as well as the right to strike).

Ituri Interim Assembly

Petronille Vaweka is the chairperson of the Assembly and represents the province in the National Assembly in Kinshasa.

James Masango

James Masango is a South African politician, and a Democratic Alliance (DA) member of Parliament's National Assembly (MP), where he serves as the Chairperson of Caucus.

Jeanne Dambendzet

In the May 2002 parliamentary election, Dambendzet was elected to the National Assembly as the PCT candidate in Ngoko constituency, located in Cuvette Region; she received 55.43% of the vote and won the seat in the first round.

Khalida Toumi

In 1981, she founded the Collectif féminin (Women's Grouping) not only to oppose the ministerial interdiction on Algerian women leaving the country unless accompanied by a male family member, but also to oppose state endorsement of the discriminatory Family Code, which the National Assembly eventually adopted in 1984.

Leader of the Opposition in the French National Assembly

In France, the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly is the leader of the largest opposition group in the National Assembly.

Letters Written in France

From here the letters describe figures of the Revolution; they also chart her visits to sites that include the ruins of the Bastille, the National Assembly and the Palace of Versailles.

Liberalism in Germany

In the National Assembly in the Frankfurt Paulskirche (1848/1849), the bourgeois liberal factions Casino and Württemberger Hof (the latter led by Heinrich von Gagern) were the majority.

Ljubica Jelušič

Ljubica Jelušič (born 16 June 1960 in Koper, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian politician, lecturer in the field of defense studies at University of Ljubljana, the Minister of Defence in the government of Borut Pahor (2008–2011) and currently she's member of National Assembly.

Muhammad Nawaz Khan

He was elected to the National Assembly (NA) for the third time, in 2008, from NA-22, District Batgram cum Mansehra.

Nouhak Phoumsavanh

Nouhak was subsequently the Secretary of the Lao People's Party cell in Vientiane, the capital, and was a member of the National Assembly in 1958.

Ökofeszt

Politics Can Be Different won seats in the National Assembly in the 2010 parliamentary election.

Philippe Séguin

As president of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1997, he supported the winning candidacy of Jacques Chirac at the 1995 presidential election.

Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort

In 1846 he was returned to the Chamber of Deputies for Hérault, but the revolution of 1848 drove him into private life, from which he only emerged after the downfall of the Second Empire, when in February 1871 he was returned to the National Assembly.

Pierre Mamboundou

Mamboundou was elected as Mayor of Ndendé in 1996, and he was also elected to the National Assembly in the December 1996 parliamentary election as a UPG candidate in Ngounié Province.

Rally of Congolese Ecologists – The Greens

In the 2006 general elections, a REC-LES VERTS candidate for the National Assembly, Mpaka Mawete Ruffin, gained the single-member seat of Kimvula in Bas-Congo.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Slovenia

The adoption of this law sparked a political debate in the National Assembly, with Slovenian National Party deputies opposing recognition of same-sex partners.

Rui Alberto de Figueiredo Soares

He was elected to the National Assembly from São Vicente under the Movement for Democracy in the 2006 parliamentary election.

Sheriff Mustapha Dibba

Sheriff Mustapha Dibba (10 January 1937, Salikene, Central Baddibu – 2 June 2008) was a veteran Gambian politician who served as the country's National Assembly speaker from 2002 to 2006.

The Patent and Designs Act 1911

The Patents and Designs Act, 1911 is an Act of the Bangladesh National Assembly.

Tomislav Nikolić

On 5 February 2011, in front of the National Assembly, Nikolić and his political supporters – Milanka Karić (Strength of Serbia Movement, Velimir Ilić (New Serbia), Aleksandar Vulin (Movement of Socialists) and Aleksandar Vučić organized a protest demanding early parliamentary elections.

Vingtième

The vingtièmes were finally abolished by the National Assembly in 1790, along with all the other vestiges of the taxation system of the ancien régime.

Women in South Africa

In 1994 women won election to eighty of the 400 seats in the National Assembly, the only directly elected house of parliament, and a woman, Frene Ginwala, was elected Speaker of the National Assembly.


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A.F.C. Euro Kickers

Current National Assembly president Pedro Miguel González Pinzón played for Euro Kickers in the early years of the league.

Abdullahi Issa

With the conclusion of the general election of March 1964, Issa returned to the National Assembly as an SYL deputy for Beledweyne.

Ahmadiyya in Pakistan

Mirza Nasir Ahmad, 3rd Khalīfatul Masīh, spoke himself for the Ahmadiyya community at the National Assembly of Pakistan, laid the foundation of the first mosque in Spain after 750 years.

Akhtar Mengal

One is Mengal’s own seat from his home constituency and the other is of Hamal Kalmati, who won from the strategic Gwadar constituency.Two candidates of the BNP, Esa Noori and Raouf Mengal, won national assembly seats from the Makran coastal region and Khuzdar, respectively.

Amadou Ali Djibo

The transitional junta then held a new parliamentary election in January 2011, and Djibo was again elected to the National Assembly; he was the only UNI candidate to win a seat.

André Mouélé

The political crisis precipitated by Lissouba's dissolution of the National Assembly was resolved through the formation of an opposition-dominated power-sharing government, led by Prime Minister Claude Antoine Dacosta.

Aonach

An Aonach was an ancient Irish public national assembly called upon the death of a king, queen, notable sage or warrior as part of ancestor worship practices.

ARJEL

Jean-Louis Valentin (replaced the resigned Guy Drut) (appointed by the President of the National Assembly)

Aseff Ahmad Ali

In the recently held general elections, he was returned to the National Assembly for the fifth time after defeating his archrival, the outgoing foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri.

Assemblea Nacional Catalana

The Assemblea Nacional Catalana (Catalan National Assembly, ANC) is an organization that seeks the political independence of Catalonia from Spain through the establishment of a free and democratic State.

Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel

After the revolution of February 1848, Coquerel was elected a member of the National Assembly, where he sat as a moderate republican, subsequently becoming a member of the Legislative Assembly following the May 1849 election, won by the conservative Parti de l'Ordre.

Bekir Sami Bey

Bekir Sami Kunduh (1867-1933), foreign minister of the government of the Grand National Assembly

Benigno Aquino

Benigno Aquino, Sr. (1894–1947), cabinet member, senator, and Speaker of the National Assembly of the Philippines

Cavayé Yéguié Djibril

He served as Second Vice-President of the National Assembly for five years, departing the legislature at the end of the parliamentary term in 1988 and instead becoming Prefectoral Assistant of Diamaré.

Colwyn Philipps, 3rd Viscount St Davids

He was the only Conservative member of the Welsh National Assembly Advisory Group, and his work in relation to Welsh devolution was described by Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Welsh Assembly Presiding Officer) as "the most significant contribution of any Welsh Conservative politician to the cause of devolution; If Ron Davies was the architect of devolution, Colwyn was his enthusiastic draughtsman. His encouragement was unstinting".

Constitution of Angola

The new constitution was hailed as "a day of victory and happiness for the people of Angola" by Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, then president of the National Assembly, and Bornito de Sousa, who chaired the constitutional commission, said that the charter was "a reflection of equality, of good sense, and true representation of the electorate".

Constitutional Council of France

Claire Bazy-Malaurie, appointed by the president of the National Assembly in August 2010

Doctrine of necessity

No provision of the Nigerian constitution empowering the National Assembly to pass any such resolution, causing Senate President David Mark to assert that the Senate had been guided by the "doctrine of necessity" in arriving at its decision.

A related (although non-judicial) use of the doctrine took place when, on February 9, 2010, the Nigerian National Assembly passed a resolution making Vice President Goodluck Jonathan the Acting President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

Ellen Jones

Elin Jones (born 1966), member of the National Assembly for Wales

Estates-General of 1789

The Estates-General had ceased to exist, having become the National Assembly (and after 9 July 1789, the National Constituent Assembly).

Eusebio Leal

Eusebio Leal Spengler, (born 11 September 1942, in Havana, Cuba), is the Havana City Historian, director of the restoration program of Old Havana and its historical center, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Deputy to the National Assembly of the Popular Power in the IV, V and VI Legislature, Ambassador of Good Will of the United Nations, the University of Havana and has his masters in Latin American, Caribbean, and Cuban Studies.

Feminism in Thailand

Orapin Chaiyakan is the first woman elected to a post in the Parliament of Thailand, on June 5, 1949 Chaiyakan was elected as member of the House of Representatives of Thailand of The National Assembly of the Kingdom of Thailand.

French legislative election, 1968

On 30 May 1968, in a radio speech, President Charles de Gaulle, who had vanished for three days (he was in Baden-Baden, Germany), announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, and a new legislative election, by way of restoring order.

Gustav Adolph Techow

He was serving with Herman von Natzmer at the Berlin arsenal when the arsenal was stormed by the citizens of Berlin who were upset over revocation of the German constitution and the dissolution National Assembly.

Guy Bisaillon

The following month, the National Assembly of Quebec approved a bill to restrict the franchise in school board elections, such that only Catholics and Protestants would be able to vote in elections for the Montreal Catholic School Commission and the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, respectively.

History of Benin

The four top-ranking contenders following the first round presidential elections were Mathieu Kérékou (incumbent) 45.4%, Nicephore Soglo (former president) 27.1%, Adrien Houngbédji (National Assembly Speaker) 12.6%, and Bruno Amoussou (Minister of State) 8.6%.

Iraqi Council

Iraqi Council for Non-Governmental Humanitarian Organisations, one of the electoral coalitions that participated in the January 30, 2005 National Assembly legislative election in Iraq

Jacques Tremblay

Jacques-Raymond Tremblay (1923–2012), former Member of Parliament of Canada and also Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the Quebec Liberal Party for Iberville electoral division

Jean Lassalle

On 3 June 2003 Lassalle stood up in the National Assembly during questions to Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy and sang the Occitan anthem Se Canto in protest at an announcement by Sarkozy concerning the housing of 23 gendarmes tasked with guarding the Somport tunnel, which links France with Spain through the Pyrenees.

Jeanne Dambendzet

In the 2007 parliamentary election, Dambendzet was again elected to the National Assembly as the PCT candidate in Ngoko; she won the seat in the first round with 67.58% of the vote.

Kajaran

Vahe Hakobyan (b. 1977), member of National Assembly of Armenia

Kang Yong-suk

He later sued South Korean comedian Choi Hyo-jong for "disrespecting the National Assembly" in a skit in Gag Concert.

Khalfan

Salim Abdallah Khalfan, Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Tanzania

Kipchumba

Boaz Kipchumba Kaino, Kenyan politician and Member of the National Assembly for the Orange Democratic Movement

Manuel Espinosa Batista

On December 16, 1924, the National Assembly of Panama, passed a law to commission a bronze bust sculpture of Manuel Espinosa Batista with the legend "Founder of the Republic", together with other busts of José Agustín Arango, Tomás Arias and Federico Boyd, members of the Provisional Government Junta and the bust of Manuel Amador Guerrero, the first President of the Republic of Panama.

National Gallery for Foreign Art

The NGFA is situated in the very centre of Sofia, at St. Alexander Nevsky Square, behind the building of the National Assembly and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

Politics of Kenya

The Deputy President is the running mate of the candidate that wins the presidential election whilst other cabinet members will be appointed, with the approval from the National Assembly, from outside Parliament.

Politics of the Gambia

On 15 November the same year, three high-ranking NADD leaders (including the Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly, Halifa Sallah) were arrested on the grounds of subversion.

Quéré

Catherine Quéré (born 1948), a member of the National Assembly of France

Ralliement créditiste du Québec

On March 19, Samson declared himself to be the leader of a new créditiste group, and demanded to be seated in the National Assembly as a member of the "Registered Ralliement créditiste du Québec"', along with two other créditiste MNAs, Aurèle Audet (Abitibi-Ouest) and Bernard Dumont (Mégantic).

Saint Kitts and Nevis general election, 2010

The PAM gained a new National Assembly member, Eugene Hamilton, while PAM deputy leader Shawn Richards retained his seat.

Sened

Senedd, the National Assembly for Wales debating chamber

SWAPO Party Youth League

Kazenambo Kazenambo, Member of the SPYL Central Committee from 1991–2002; member of the 4th National Assembly

Treaty of Brussels

Trying to avoid the need for West German rearmament, a treaty aimed at establishing a European Defence Community was signed by the six ECSC members in May 1952 but failed when it was rejected by the French National Assembly in August 1954.

Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué

In the April 2002 parliamentary election, he was re-elected to the National Assembly as an URD candidate from Sarh constituency in Barh Köh Department.

West Belarus

On October 30 the National Assembly session held in Belastok passed the decision of West Belarus joining the USSR and its unification with the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Zardari family

Hakim Zardari was also a Member of National Assembly in 70's on the ticket of Pakistan Peoples Party but came into more prominence after the marriage of Benazir Bhutto with Asif Zardari.