Following the assassination in Parliament of Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and parliament Speaker Karen Demirchyan and six other officials, on 27 October 1999, a period of political instability ensued during which an opposition headed by elements of the former Armenian National Movement government attempted unsuccessfully to force Kocharyan to resign.

The Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia Mrs. Nino Burjanadze took over the position until the results were announced on January 5, 2008.

The Speaker of the House during the Long Parliament was William Lenthall.

On 26 March 2004, following the decision of the Speaker of the Parliament, Marek Borowski, to found a new dissenting party, the Social Democracy of Poland, Leszek Miller decided to resign from the position of Prime Minister on 2 May 2004, a day after Poland ’ s accession to the EU.

Legislative power is vested in the Parliament of Malta which consists of the President of Malta and the unicameral House of Representatives of Malta with the Speaker presiding officer of the legislative body.

Loku Bandara, Speaker of the Parliament ( 2005 )

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

The chairman of the Center Party, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, formed a new cabinet, and Lipponen took the position of Speaker of Parliament.

Maluleka later became the chairman of the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan City Council ( later City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality ), then was elected Speaker of the Tshwane Metro Council and in 2004 was chosen to be a member of the South African Parliament for the Soshanguve constituency.

Part of the controversial Kampala Accord's conditions, the agreement would also see the mandates of the President, the Parliament Speaker and Deputies extended until August 2012, after which point new elections are to be organized.

Speaker Mohamed Osman Jawari voting during the Federal Parliament of Somalia | Federal Parliament's inaugural speakership elections.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

Part of the controversial Kampala Accord's conditions, the agreement saw the mandates of the President, the Parliament Speaker and Deputies extended until August 2012.

Speaker Mohamed Osman Jawari voting during the Federal Parliament of Somalia | Federal Parliament's inaugural speakership elections.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

Past Sikh politicians in India have included former President Giani Zail Singh, India's first Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh, Dr. Gurdial Singh Dhillon, Speaker of the Parliament of India.

Parliament designated Deputy Speaker Bonfoh Abbass as interim president until the inauguration of the election winner.

The current Speaker of the Parliament is Cemil Çiçek.

Kekkonen was a Deputy Speaker of the Parliament 1946 – 1947, and was Speaker from 1948 to 1950.

In 2006, the President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa, 4th President of Sri Lanka Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, twice Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremasinghe and the Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka W. J. M. Lokubandara were guest speakers at a UC event.

Within a few months, however, Margaret had regained control of Henry, Parliament was dissolved, the incautious Speaker thrown in prison, and Richard of York retired to Wales for the time being.

He represented Lincolnshire in the Parliament of 1555 and 1559, and Northamptonshire in that of 1563, and he took an active part in the proceedings of the House of Commons until his elevation to the peerage ; but there seems no good evidence for the story that he was proposed as Speaker in 1563.

Kerr wrote that " nothing else of relevance " took place between the two men, but by Scholes's account, he accused Kerr of bad faith for making an appointment to receive the Speaker, and then not waiting to hear from him before dissolving Parliament.

Ayatollah Seyyed Abol-Ghasem Mostafavi Kashani () ( born 1882 in Tehran, Iran, died March 14, 1962 ) was a prominent Twelver Shi ' a Muslim cleric and former Parliament Speaker of Iran.

The Speaker of the Parliament, who by custom must be a Shi ' a Muslim, is now elected to a four-year term.

Most significantly, the three main constitutional offices ( President, Prime Minister, and National Assembly Speaker ) were assigned to a Maronite Christian, Sunni Muslim, and Shi ' a Muslim, Lebanon's three largest confessions, respectively.

Accordingly, the President was to be a Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim and the Speaker of Parliament a Shia Muslim.

Chaudhry joined the Convention Muslim League, and after the 1956 elections, he was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly.

Lebanon specifies the religious affiliation of several of its high officers, such as the President ( Maronite ), the Prime Minister ( Sunni Muslim ) and the Parliament's Speaker ( Shia Muslim ).

The five members of Congress boast a prominent, bi-partisan list of supporters who have written letters to Speaker Boehner backing the requested investigations by the Inspectors General into Muslim Brotherhood influence inside U. S. government agencies.

** Chia Shi Lu, Member of Parliament, Singapore

* November 7 – Indian Prime Minister Singh resigns over losing a confidence vote in the Parliament of India, having lost the support of Hindus who want a Muslim mosque in Ayodhya torn down to build a Hindu temple.

Under the Zogist constitution, the King of the Albanians, like the King of the Belgians, exercised Royal powers only after taking an oath before Parliament ; Zog himself swore an oath on the Bible and the Qur ' an ( the king being Muslim ) in an attempt to unify the country.

* Under the unwritten National Pact, the president must always be a Maronite Christian ; the prime minister a Sunni Muslim ; the speaker of Parliament a Shia Muslim ; and the deputy speaker Greek Orthodox.

The Iranian constitution calls for the council to be composed of six Islamic faqihs ( expert in Islamic Law ), " conscious of the present needs and the issues of the day " to be selected by the Supreme Leader of Iran, and six jurists, " specializing in different areas of law, to be elected by the Majlis ( the Iranian Parliament ) from among the Muslim jurists nominated by the Head of the Judicial Power ," ( who, in turn, is also appointed by the supreme leader ).

The President must be a Muslim not less than 45 years of age, elected by members of Parliament.

He was the first Muslim elected to the Canadian Parliament.

The PPP won the considerable victory on among all political parties, gaining a momentum of general seats 121 from all provinces in the Parliament, whilst the centre-right, Pakistan Muslim League came second in place, managing to secure 91 seats from all over the country.

The Pakistan Muslim League ( N ) ( Urdu: پاکستان مسلم لیگ ن ; acronym: PML -( N ), PMN-N, and PMLN ) is a center-right, conservative political party in Pakistan, being the largest conservative political force and second largest political party, roughly representing 19. 6 % of votes in the Parliament ( both in Senate and National Assembly ), in the latest national parliamentary elections.

The commission, compromising the seven British Members of Parliament, headed under its Chairman Sir John Simon, met briefly with Congress Party and Muslim League leaders.

In 1986, the Congress ( I ) party, which had an absolute majority in Parliament at the time, passed an act The Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Divorce ) Act 1986 that nullified the Supreme Court's judgment in the Shah Bano case.

After the 2003 elections, there were at least ten MPs from Muslim background among the 150 Members of Parliament, but as few as three among them may have been active believers, while two explicitly classified themselves as ex-Muslims.

Karim was the first British Muslim elected to the European Parliament on 4 June 2004.

Karim, who is the first British Muslim elected to the European Parliament, was elected to represent the North West England in 2004 as a Liberal Democrat.

In 2003 Louise Ellman, MP for Liverpool Riverside, mentioned in Britain's Parliament the relationship between Anwar Al-Awlaqi and the Muslim Association of Britain.

" In an article published in a somewhat edited version on June 10, 2004 in the Jerusalem Post, much of which is a rehash of his November 18, 2003 article in National Review, Taheri writes " In this month's election for a new European Parliament, voters in several European Union countries, notably France and Britain, are offered common lists of Islamist and leftist candidates ... Europe's moribund extreme Left has found a new lease on life thanks to hundreds of young Muslim militants ..."

In 1992 Moosajee Bhamjee became the first ( and to date only ) Muslim Teachta Dála ( Member of Irish Parliament ).

The report chronicled gruesome details of the events in 1953: how, by spending a meager sum of $ 1 million, the CIA " stirred up considerable unrest in Iran, giving Iranians a clear choice between instability and supporting the shah "; how it brought " the largest mobs " into the street ; how it " began disseminating ' gray propaganda ' passing out anti-Mossadegh cartoons in the streets and planting unflattering articles in local press "; how the CIA's " Iranian operatives pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim leaders with ' savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh '"; how the " house of at least one prominent Muslim was bombed by CIA agents posing as Communists "; how the CIA tried to " orchestrate a call for a holy war against Communism "; how on August 19 " a journalist who was one of the agency's most important Iranian agents led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to set fire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr. Mossadegh's foreign minister "; how American agents swung " security forces to the side of the demonstrators "; how the shah's disbanded " Imperial Guard seized trucks and drove through the street "; how by " 10: 15 there were pro-shah truckloads of military personnel at all main squares "; how the " pro-shah speakers went on the air, broadcasting the coups ' success and reading royal decrees "; how at the US embassy, " CIA officers were elated, and Mr. Roosevelt got General Zahedi out of hiding " and found him a tank that " drove him to the radio station, where he spoke to the nation "; and, finally, how " Dr. Mossadegh and other government officials were rounded up, while officers supporting General Zahedi placed ' unknown supports of TP-Ajax ' in command of all units of Tehran garrison.

In January 2000, the Parliament passed a new Personal Status Law that made it easier for a Muslim woman to obtain a divorce without her husband's consent, provided that she is willing to forgo alimony and the return of her dowry.

In 1966, Parliament passed the Administration of the Muslim Law Act ( AMLA ).