Sentences with phrase «rubber stamp parliament»

Quoting the relevant portions of Justice Kolawole's judgment, Falana said by acknowledging that the National Assembly was not a rubber stamp parliament, the court recognised the duty of the legislature «to debate and make its informed inputs» into the President's budget proposals.

China unveils its defense budget for the year at this weekend's opening of the annual meeting of its largely rubber stamp parliament.

Not exact matches

The state council eventually passed them, leaving Nuinsco in need of what traditionally has been a simple rubber stamp by the local parliament.

March is when the country's rubber - stamp parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), holds its annual session.

The 12 - day meeting of China's rubber - stamp parliament does not do much legislative business and rarely produces surprises.

He blamed such acts to ignorance on the part of the aspirants who know little or nothing about parliamentary duties in the country indicating that they also account for the reason parliament has now become a rubber stamp.

«By a Large extent, parliament is a rubber stamp where the sitting government always uses its way to pass a bill or agreements that turn out to be saddled with corrupt practices or improprieties.

The use of proxies to cloak law - making is something that does not fit the conventional picture of «rubber stamp» parliaments — a label that has been used frequently for the Russian Federal Assembly in recent years.

Far from ending «Labour's» scheme, the chancellor has rubber - stamped new expenditure of # 750m this Parliament on the HS2 project, much of it being spent on consultants and the PR roadshow accompanying the government's consultation.

A cronyism row which saw an SNP cabinet secretary rubber - stamp a # 150,000 grant to the organisers of the T in the Park music festival after a meeting brokered by a former party adviser may have caused First Minister Nicola Sturgeon the inconvenience of having to answer some awkward questions in the Scottish Parliament but it has done her party no discernible harm.

China's rubber - stamp parliament unanimously handed President Xi Jinping a second term Saturday and elevated his right - hand man to the vice presidency, giving him a strong ally to consolidate power and handle US trade threats.

Real power and policy decision making in China and Vietnam reside mostly in the Communist party and then the parliament, whose members are all members of the Communist party, rubber stamp the party's decisions.

There have been several signs over the past few months that the Government are adopting the policy of always knowing right and of assuming that Parliament is there only to rubber - stamp their decisions.

It is PDP's 15 years of impunity and the creation of a (near) one - party state that has made the parliament to become a rubber stamp.

The new budget plan, which is expected to be rubber - stamped later this month by the Parliament, boosts federal spending by 5 % for three of Germany's major research and granting institutions: the Max Planck Society; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany's basic research granting agency; and a bit more for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft applied science agency.

The rubber - stamping follows that of the EU Parliament and paves the way for the bills to be made law by summer.

Parliamentary scrutiny does make a difference to the final shape of an Act, research shows — contradicting the widely - held view that Parliament merely acts as a «rubber stamp» for government legislation.