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2 unusual facts about National People's Assembly


National People's Assembly

National People's Assembly of Thailand, an citizens' assembly in Thailand concerned with electing members of the Constitution Drafting Assembly

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


Bath People's Assembly

In February 2012, the Bath People's Assembly launched a petition to Bath and North East Somerset Council calling for them to switch their bank account from NatWest to an ethical bank, as part of the wider Move Your Money campaign.

Carlos Gomes Júnior

He was a delegate to PAIGC's Fifth Congress in December 1991, and in the first multiparty elections, held in 1994, he was elected to the National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau from the 26th Electoral District.

Constitution of Somalia

A new Constitution was promulgated in 1979 under which elections for a People's Assembly were held.

Coventryville Historic District

Coventryville's origins lie in the iron forge founded in 1717 by Englishman Samuel Nutt, an early American industrialist and member of Pennsylvania's Assembly in 1723–26.

Cui Tiankai

On March 6, 2013, Cui Tiankai was interviewed by reporters from China Youth Daily when he attended the National People's Congress.

East Germany–Israel relations

This was bolstered by the National People's Army, which published a lengthy article in August 1982 likening Israeli aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese people to the crimes of German Nazism in World War II and those of American imperialism against Vietnam.

Elections in Egypt

Before the 2005 election, the President of Egypt was nominated by a two-thirds majority of the rubber-stamp People's Assembly and approved under a referendum process that resembles a show election in authoritarian countries.

Gamal Mubarak

Since remaining serious candidates would be disqualified by the NDP-controlled People's Assembly leaving only the less popular candidates, the inheritance of power would be accomplished through a "democratic" process.

House of Representatives

In the 2012 draft for a new Constitution of Egypt, the People's Assembly is called "House of Representatives".

Human rights in China

According to the Der Spiegel magazine, despite the National People's Congress enacting a law in 2007 to protect private property with the exception of land, local Chinese authorities have used brutal means to expropriate property, in a bid to profit from the construction boom.

Luftsturmregiment 40

The Luftsturmregiment 40 (LStR-40) "Willi Sänger" (English: Air Assault Regiment 40) was a unit of the German Democratic Republic's National People's Army.

Macao Special Administrative Region passport

According to the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China and the Explanations of some questions by the Standing Committee of the PRC National People's Congress concerning the implementation of the Nationality Law in the Macau SAR, any Macau SAR permanent resident holding Chinese nationality can apply for the Macau SAR passport.

National People's Action

Headquartered in Chicago, NPA was founded in 1972 by Austin neighborhood activist Gale Cincotta and professional organizer Shel Trapp.

NVA

National People's Army, or Nationale Volksarmee, the army of former German Democratic Republic

Panagis Tsaldaris

After these dramatic events, the People's Party split and Ioannis Theotokis formed the National People's Party.

Politics of Albania

The People's Assembly must give final approval of the composition of the Council.

Rolf Herricht

Herricht starred in several other popular DEFA comedies during the 1960s and the 1970s: among others, he played the erratic National People's Army reserve soldier Ralf Horricht in the 1965 Der Reserveheld and the last-minute-travel-guide Hurtig in the 1967 Meine Freundin Sybille.

Rules for Radicals

The methods and teachings of Rules for Radicals have also been linked to the Mid America Institute, the National People's Action, the National Training and Information Center, the Pacific Institute for Community Organizations, and the Community Service Organization.

Shengao

In June 1995, when Jiang Chunyun, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress (NPC) visited Shengao, he pointed out Shengao is an example of modern agriculture, and the experience of developing of agriculture is very convincing and has a say in the national wide.

Special Mission

Of the 500 feature films created by DEFA from 1956, the year in which the National People's Army was fouded, until its dismantlement during 1990, only five had their plot dealing explicitly with the East German armed forces - although many pictures were set in historical military formations, like the Wehrmacht, and DEFA produced many documentaries and news bulletins about the NVA.

Strausberg–Strausberg Nord railway

The headquarters of the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (the militarised unit of the East German police, which was transformed in 1956 into the National People's Army) was moved in June 1954 from Berlin-Adlershof to Strausberg, because Berlin had been declared a demilitarised zone by the four occupying powers.

Summer Palace Dialogue

Wu Xiaoling: Member of The National People’s Congress Standing Committee; Deputy Chairman of Financial and Economic Committee, National People's Congress; Former Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China.

Waffenfarbe

East German (DDR) Nationale Volksarmee uniforms initially wore the waffenfarbe as worn by the Wehrmacht, i.e. as base and filling of the collar and sleeve patches and as a piping around the shoulder boards/shoulder straps.

Wang Xiankui

In March 2013 he was promoted to Communist Party Chief of Heilongjiang, succeeding Ji Bingxuan, who became a Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress.

Werner E. Ablaß

Together with minister Rainer Eppelmann, Secretary of State in the Ministerium für Abrüstung und Verteidigung (MfAuV), Ablaß played a major role in the closure of the National People's Army (NVA) during the German reunification.

Wolfgang Thonke

Wolfgang Thonke (born December 28, 1938), is a journalist, promoted military scientist, major general (ret.), and was the last Deputy Commanding General (A3) of the National People's Army Air Force in the former German Democratic Republic.

Yang Hyong-sop

He was elected Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly in 1983, after having been a vice-chairman since 1962; in this capacity, he assumed the functions of de facto head of State after Kim Il-sung's death in 1994, as the post of President of the DPRK was never re-assigned; he was however under the actual leadership of the new leader Kim Jong-il.

Yorckscher Marsch

It is the traditional March of the Wachbataillon, the German Bundeswehr's elite drill unit, it is also played at the first march at the Grand Tattoo and it was the traditional March of the East German armed forces.

Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County

Former NPC(National People's Congress) chairman and member of the Standing Committee of the political Bureau(Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China), Li Peng, danced Baishou Dance at Taohuayuan Square with his Youyang folks during his visit in 2001, Dec.


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