Sentences with phrase «upper house of parliament»

The proposal to appoint 80 % of a reformed upper House of Parliament is being considered by No 10 in the event of a «no» result in the upcoming referendum on electoral reform, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

On October 16, 2008, the speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament did not preclude Russia asking for a resumption of a naval presence in Yemen.

Rwanda's upper house of parliament debated Thursday a constitutional amendment enabling President Paul Kagame to run for a third consecutive term in 2017 and potentially paving the way for the strongman to remain in power till 2034.

The Lords, as its referred to, is the upper house of Parliament in the British system.

While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

«At least four parties will be required to achieve a majority in both the lower and upper house of parliament.

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

But striking a more conciliatory tone, PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski moved to organise a meeting between the speaker of the upper house of parliament and the media late on Saturday night to discuss the new plan for journalists» access.

Russian lawmaker Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the international affairs committee of Russia's upper house of parliament, described the action as baseless and unfriendly, Interfax news agency reported.

Muto was the government's first choice as BOJ Governor in 2008 but his nomination was rejected by the upper house of parliament who saw Muto as a threat to the central bank's independence since he had spent much of his career at Japan's finance ministry.

The Narendra Modi government lacks the requisite numbers in the upper house of parliament to get the legislation through.

A new law on houses of worship is under discussion in the Shura Council - the upper house of parliament, which recently has taken over legislation until the new People's Assembly, or lower house, is elected next month.

The question of whether the upper house of the parliament should be abolished is gaining traction, with some people calling for a directly elected senate to address what they see as cronyism.

But the Japanese accident led the government to announce a 1 - year moratorium on its nuclear program, and yesterday the upper house of parliament approved a measure to delay the setting up of new plants indefinitely.

Because the law doesn't directly affect state policy, it does not need the approval of the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house of parliament, which is controlled by the opposition Christian Democratic Party.

Treatments in Germany involving adult stem cells will be more closely regulated after revision of Germany's medical products law received final approval by the Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament.

She sits in the House of Lords (the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, comparable to the US Senate) as a Conservative.

+ Art dealers and collectors in Germany are up in arms after the upper house of parliament passed The Cultural Property Protection Law on Friday.

Legislation for it is stuck in the Senate, the upper house of parliament, where Labor lacks a majority.

Not only has he had one of his more popular climate change debunking presentations itself thoroughly debunked, but now the UK House of Lords has had the audacity to remind him, that despite his claims to the contrary, he is in no way a member of the upper house of Parliament.

The Supreme Court is a wholly independent court of appeal which further separates the powers exercised by the judiciary and the upper house of parliament in the UK.