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A packed chamber hangs on the minister's every word.
Despite an electoral law favoring it, Tudjman's mammoth organization has been reduced to a mere 40 seats in the 151-seat lower chamber of the Sabor (parliament).
What on earth could India’s fractious and rumbustious Lok Sabha, with its impassioned debates and disruptions, have in common with China’s decorous NPC, a rigorously controlled echo chamber for Communist Party decisions?
On a visit to the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong famously refused to use the flush toilet adjoining his room, and instead used a chamber pot he had brought from China.
This must be done in a ultra-high vacuum in a large chamber.
His efforts to thwart Ukraine’s European future will continue, as will his efforts to hollow out our democracy and replace it with a Kremlin echo chamber, unless the world imposes such a high price for his imperial ambitions that the Russian people refuse to bear it.
The latter chamber will also have the authority to investigate past electoral complaints, effectively empowering the government to overturn court decisions dating back 20 years.
Both parties want to strengthen their hold on as many state-level offices as possible, because the party that controls a state’s governorship and at least one of its legislative chamber gets to oversee how congressional districts are drawn (which happens every ten years).
The final lesson relates to the danger of the ideological echo chamber.
If the EU is a fortress, Moria camp is its torture chamber, with nightmarish conditions that have been well documented.
Moreover, he would not even be able to veto hostile legislation, because he would be the first president in Mexico’s modern history not to have the one-third of seats in at least one chamber of the legislature necessary to sustain a presidential veto.
Moreover, information that is filtered through networks of friends can result in an echo chamber of news that reinforces one’s own biases (though there is considerable uncertainty about how serious a problem this represents).
The Federation Council (the upper chamber of the Duma), too, was generally loyal to the president, as were regional governors, while remaining independent.
Legislators in one chamber would be selected on the basis of merit and competency, and in the others on the basis of elections of some kind.
One elected chamber might be reserved only for Communist Party members, the other for representatives elected by ordinary Chinese.
The Democrats must net at least 30 House seats and four Senate seats to retake control of each chamber, respectively.
The Yingluck government had refused to accept the Constitutional Court’s ruling against a bill to change the senate from a half-appointed to a fully elected chamber.
Indeed, at the close of nomination on August 4, eleven functional candidates were chosen without opposition, including those representing banks and the Chinese chamber of commerce.
Powell had no equivalent of Twitter to spread the word, and there was no Fox News or Breitbart to create an ideological echo chamber.
More broadly, the CCP connived to create a sloping playing field – just ask any foreign chamber of commerce in Beijing.
Most observers believe that Bersani will carry the day, thanks to the much-criticized electoral law, which will give him control of the lower chamber if he wins a majority – regardless of how many people vote or how slim the margin.
A possibility here is to establish a second chamber of the European Parliament with members not elected by direct ballot, but by the parliaments of member States from among their ranks.
Thus, the EU’s first chamber - ie, its present Parliament - would mirror the size of individual member States; its second chamber, with the same number of representatives from every State, would enhance equality.
Instead, world leaders must leave their echo chamber, take ordinary people’s concerns seriously, diversify their views, and think about why so many have lost faith in the system.
In such a chamber small and big states would have equal voting power, the Constitution defining each body's areas of competence.
The interests and opinions of individual countries should be sufficiently represented in the Council of Europe and any second chamber to the European Parliament.
We plan to quickly call a Parliamentary election, which will take place one year ahead of schedule, in order to replace Rajapaksa’s echo chamber with a fully functioning assembly, one that holds the government to account.
According to the European Union’s electoral observers, there was a “serious loss” in the election’s democratic quality, while Nicaragua’s own election monitors, its chamber of commerce, and the Episcopal Conference of the Catholic Church called the voting “not transparent” and demanded the resignation of the entire Supreme Electoral Council.
And it’s not as though Congressional Republicans think they owe enough to Simpson for him to swing a single vote in either chamber of the legislature.
The school’s assembly hall, filled with students sitting attentively in their chairs, was transformed into a death chamber – blood, broken eyeglasses, scattered textbooks, torn jackets, and lifeless young bodies.
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