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A member of Parliament is a member of either of the two chambers of the Parliament of Austria (Österreichisches Parlament). The members of the Nationalrat are called Abgeordnete zum Nationalrat. The members of the Bundesrat, elected by the provincial diets of the nine federal States of Austria, are known as Mitglieder des Bundesrats.
Indirect party-list proportional (by members of the states-provincial and the Caribbean Electoral colleges for the Senate) 75 223,066 New Zealand: Parliament (Pāremata) [note 2] House of Representatives (Whare o ngā Māngai) Unicameral 3 Closed list mixed-member proportional representation with a 5% threshold 120 33,566 Nicaragua
Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope; Parliament of the Central African Republic; Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria; Parliament of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Parliament of the Republic of the Congo; Croatian Parliament; National Assembly of People's Power; House of Representatives (Cyprus) Parliament of the Czech Republic
This is a list of the offices of heads of state, heads of government, cabinet, and legislature, of sovereign states. Date of Origin refers to most recent fundamental change in form of government, for example independence, change from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy, revolution, new constitution.
In semi-presidential and parliamentary systems, the head of government (i.e. executive) role is fulfilled by the listed head of government and the head of state. In one-party states , the ruling party 's leader (e.g. the General Secretary ) is usually the de facto top leader of the state, though sometimes this leader also holds the presidency ...
The federal government of Canada has a bicameral parliament, and each of Canada's 10 provinces has a unicameral parliament. National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China; Løgtingið (Faroe Islands) Parliament of Fiji; Parliament of Ghana; States of Deliberation of Guernsey; Althing (Parliament of Iceland) - Oldest surviving ...
Country Legislature Type Lower house [1] Upper house [1] Lower house to upper house ratio Total Population [2] Population/ Lower house seats Population/ Total seats People's Republic of China
Countries with parliamentary systems may be constitutional monarchies, where a monarch is the head of state while the head of government is almost always a member of parliament, or parliamentary republics, where a mostly ceremonial president is the head of state while the head of government is from the legislature. In a few countries, the head ...