X-Nico

unusual facts about deputy speaker



M. Sivasithamparam

Murugesu Sivasithamparam (20 July 1923 – 5 June 2002) was a leading Sri Lankan Tamil politician, Member of Parliament and Deputy Speaker.

Swraj Paul, Baron Paul

In December 2008 he was appointed deputy speaker of the Lords; in October 2009 he was appointed to the Privy Council.


see also

2009 Iran poll protests trial

Among them were former Vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi, former government spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, former Deputy Speaker of the Parliament and Industry Minister Behzad Nabavi, reformist lawmaker Ali Tajernia, Shahaboddin Tabatabaei, journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi, and others.

Dainis Īvāns

After the win of Popular Front in the 1990 election, he became the deputy speaker of the Supreme Soviet, the transitional parliament of Latvia.

Frederick Tutu Goodwin

Goodwin's sister-in-law is MP and Deputy Speaker of the Cook Islands Parliament Cassey Eggelton.

Gerry Wood

Once the new Assembly began sitting, new ALP Chief Minister Clare Martin offered Wood the position of Deputy Speaker under fellow independent Loraine Braham, and Wood soon accepted.

Humanitarian Law Center

In May 2008, HLC filed criminal charges against Božidar Delić, a retired Major General of the Yugoslav Army, current deputy speaker of the Serbian National Assembly and senior official of the Serbian Radical Party, and another ten members of the Yugoslav Army relating to the massacre at Trnje/Termje, Kosovo, on 25 March 1999, in which members of the 549th Motorised Brigade under Delić’s command killed 42 Albanian civilians, including children, women, and elderly people.

Ikpe Umoh Imeh

Ikpe Umoh Imeh (or Obong (Chief) Ikpe Umoh Imeh) (April 22, 1906 – September 29, 2004) was a Member of Parliament from Akwa Ibom State and Deputy Speaker of Parliament for the Eastern Region, Nigeria during the Nigerian First Republic.

Jack Stokes

William Davis's Progressive Conservatives were reduced to a minority government in this election, and Stokes served as Deputy Speaker in the parliament that followed.

Jama Garad Ali

The event brought together, for the first time after the collapse of Somali Government in 1991, a large number of politically diverse politicians such as former Somali Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galaydh, the President and the Vice-President of Puntland, and the 2nd Deputy Speaker of the Somaliland House of Representatives.

Job Tausinga

On 6 December 2011, he was elected unopposed to the position of deputy Speaker of Parliament, following Namson Tran's resignation from that position.

Margaret Herbison

She was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for North Lanarkshire at the 1945 general election, defeating the Conservative incumbent, future Deputy Speaker of the House William Anstruther-Gray.

Mark Tedeschi

He also won convictions against Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Rakuita Vakalalabure, Ratu Viliame Volavola, Peceli Rinakama, and Viliame Savu for the same offence.

Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard

The other running candidate for the post of deputy speaker was Mohammad-Reza Bahonar, a representative from Kerman who became first deputy speaker with 188 votes.

Rifat Rastoder

He was chosen as representative in the Parliament four times, and deputy speaker of the Parliament for three mandates of which he served under Svetozar Marović, Filip Vujanović and current speaker of parliament, Ranko Krivokapić.

San Remo conference

Panel participants included Deputy Speaker of the Knesset MK Danny Danon, Italian MP Fiamma Nirenstein and international legal expert Jacques Gauthier of Toronto.

Shahid Ali

Shahed Ali Patwary (Bengali শহীদ আলী পাটোয়ারী; 1899-1958) Deputy Speaker of East Pakistan Assembly

Sohibul Iman

He succeeded Anis Matta as Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian People's Representative Council when Anis was appointed President of the Prosperous Justice Party by its Syura Assembly.

Viliami Veasi‘i Veikune

On 2 July 2012, following Lord Tuʻiʻafitu's resignation from the position of Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly to become Minister for Health, Lord Tu‘iha‘teiho became Deputy Speaker in his place.

Ziyafat Asgarov

Asgarov was again re-elected to the National Assembly from 76th Lankaran-Astara electoral district in November 2010 parliamentary elections and remains the First Deputy Speaker of Azerbaijani Parliament.