Sentences with phrase «directly elected body»
The London Assembly was established as a directly elected body by separate legislation and is part of the Greater London Authority.
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Interestingly the comments from Chuka Umunna are not about devolving to LEPs (unelected, undemocratic bodies) but about the creation of combined authorities and directly elected metro mayors — a much better solution than some of the original suggestions to give power and resource to the LEPs.
On April 6, the king of Morocco formally appointed the elected and pro-forma members of the Supreme Judicial Council, a new government body whose creation and composition was mandated by the 2011 constitution to manage the courts and judicial affairs directly in place of the Ministry of Justice.
The legislative process of the EU may be generally simplified in this way: the European Commission, i.e. a body of supposedly independent experts appointed by the European Council (see, the 28, soon 27, heads of State or government of its Member States) and approved by the European Parliament (the only institutions directly elected by EU citizens), has the initiative to table legislation.
Some participants prefer that the national body deal directly with regions and that a regional elected member (s) be the interface between local communities, and the national representative body.