Sentences with phrase «represent as a member of parliament»

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Although the Council's stance on this element of the incoming data protection regulation won't become official until member states agree on the whole thing — an event that will trigger negotiations with the European Parliament — it does represent a major step forward, as the nature of the one - stop - shop mechanism has been the major sticking point in reaching overall agreement.

However, with respect to the first of those issues, I find fascinating the British idea of «virtual representation,» which meant that so long as Parliament was a mixed deliberative body of persons that represented a variety of interests and opinions, then representation was real and valid even though citizens could not vote for members of Parliament.

I mean it should be one of the biggest honours that we have in this country is to actually become a member of parliament and represent constituents of all types and push an agenda that actually helps people as a whole and benefit them,» he says.

It is because I object to the new - fangled idea that an early election would result from a motion, perhaps proposed by the Opposition, any MP or even the Government themselves, that requires — this is contrary to all constitutional precedent and history since our Parliament first sat representing the electors of this country — the support of two - thirds or more of those eligible to vote as Members of Parliament.

Other leaders to represent the minority side include Mohammed Muntaka, who will maintain his position as the Chief Whip, with the Member of Parliament for Banda Ahmed Ibrahim, and the Member of Parliament for Pusiga, Hon. Laadi Ayii Ayamba serving as deputy chief whips.

She was elected as a regional member of the Scottish Parliament to represent Central Scotland at the 1999 election.

Businessman and Sports Administrator, Herbert Mensah has described the slain Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, J.B. Danquah variously as a «beacon for hope», a «bridge» between generations and a «brother» whose sad passing represents a great loss.

Bibby was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2011 to represent the West of Scotland region, as the Labour Party returned three members from the list.

Enfranchised as a parliamentary borough in 1615 and first represented in 1621, it elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the first past the post system of election until 1885.

Eleanor Fulton Laing (née Pritchard; born 1 February 1958) is a British Conservative politician who has represented Epping Forest as the constituency's Member of Parliament since the 1997 general election.

21 - year - old Ross Greer has been elected as the youngest - ever Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), representing the Green Party.

Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Baron Maude of Horsham PC (born 4 July 1953) is a British Conservative politician, who served over 25 years on the front bench in the House of Commons, [1] including posts as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster - General, as well as Member of Parliament representing Horsham in Sussex, and then as Baron Maude of Horsham as Minister of State for Trade and Investment until April 2016.

The reform is not sealed, as the Parliament must now negotiate with the Council of Ministers, which represents the bloc's 28 member states.

This status would enable those «who feel and wish to be part of the European project but are nationals of a former Member State... the rights of freedom of movement and to reside on its territory as well as being represented in the Parliament through a vote in the European elections».

If there are countervailing concerns raised by permitting Canadians living abroad to vote as electors in the last Canadian riding they lived in, alternative solutions exist: e.g. the Italian approach of having members of parliament specifically representing expatriates.

He served as Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Opposition Leader, and a Member of Provincial Parliament, representing the people of Niagara for 21 years.