Since 1999, the German parliament has again assembled in Berlin in its original Reichstag building, which dates from the 1890s and underwent a significant renovation under the lead of British architect Sir Norman Foster.

The walkway provides views of the interior of the building, and is intended to symbolise transparency ; a similar device was used by Foster in his design for the rebuilt Reichstag ( parliament ) in Germany.

Foster was returned to the united parliament as a member for County Louth, and in 1804 became Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer under Pitt.

South Australia became a self-governing colony in 1856 with the ratification of a new constitution by the British parliament.

To prevent this bill from passing into law, Charles had dissolved parliament in July 1679, and in the following October had prorogued its successor, which became known as the Exclusion Bill Parliament, without allowing it to meet.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

In 1462, Bordeaux obtained a parliament, but regained importance only in the 16th century when it became the center of the distribution of sugar and slaves from the West Indies along with the traditional wine.

In 1972, a constitution was adopted, a parliament elected, and Lon Nol became president.

In March 2006, the parliament overturned a veto by President Václav Klaus, and the Czech Republic became the first former communist country in Europe to grant legal recognition to same-sex partnerships.

Although both it and Leinster House were intended to be temporary, they became the permanent homes of parliament from then on.

Ronald later became a member of parliament, during World War II became a link between the British and United States governments, and lent his country house, Ditchley Park near Oxford, to Churchill for weekend visits when the official residences were considered unsafe.

" Elizabeth's reign became idealised as a time when crown, church and parliament had worked in constitutional balance.

Finns enjoy individual and political freedoms, and suffrage is universal at 18 ; Finnish women became the first in the world to have unrestricted rights both to vote and to stand for parliament.

The liberals and the leftist minority in parliament walked out in protest in what became known as the Aventine Secession.

From 1925 to 1929, Fascism steadily became entrenched in power: opposition deputies were denied access to parliament, censorship was introduced, and a December 1925 decree made Mussolini solely responsible to the King.

According to the Italian Constitution, after his resignation from the office of President, Cossiga became lifetime senator, joining his predecessors in the upper house of parliament, with whom he also shared the title of President Emeritus of the Italian Republic.

In October 1999, the Indonesian parliament ( MPR ) revoked the decree that annexed East Timor, and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor ( UNTAET ) assumed responsibility for governing East Timor until it officially became an independent state in May 2002.

On April 15, 2009, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper became the first Canadian head of government to address the Jamaican parliament.

In the 1920 elections the Communists won 59 seats in the parliament and became the third strongest party.

New Era Party with 26 seats out of 100 became the largest party in the parliament.

In 1806, the city became the capital of the new Kingdom of Bavaria, with the state's parliament ( the Landtag ) and the new archdiocese of Munich and Freising being located in the city.

In 1994, in what became known as the cash-for-questions affair, Fayed revealed the names of MPs he had paid to ask questions in parliament on his behalf, but who had failed to declare their fees.

In April 2000, René Harris, former chairman of the Nauru Phosphate Corporation, became president as he briefly assembled support in parliament.

In late June 2004, Nauru's former parliament speaker Ludwig Scotty became the country's new president.

On 21 November 1945, Tchicaya became one of the first African leaders elected to the French parliament, giving him great prestige in his native country.

After the collapse of the USSR, Khasbulatov consolidated his control over the Russian parliament and became the second most powerful man in Russia after Yeltsin himself.

In Greece, in the general election on 17 June 2012, Coalition of the Radical Left ( Syriza ) won 26. 89 % of the votes and became the second largest party in parliament.

After Prime Minister Harper convinced the Governor General to prorogue parliament on December 4, 2008, and with Dion pressured to resign immediately as party leader, Rae took on the role of coalition spokesman.

In 1991 he was elected deputy to the regional parliament of Asturias, where he was spokesman for Izquierda Unida's group.

The media regarded him as the leading spokesman of the party, although he had no official position outside of parliament.

He is the justice spokesman for the SSP, and has campaigned for the abolition of prescription charges, including putting a Bill to that effect before parliament.

At the time of his death Buesa was the leader of the PSE-EE in Álava and the PSE-EE spokesman in the parliament of the Basque Country.

Bebel's great organizing talent and oratorical power quickly made him one of the leaders of the socialists and their chief spokesman in parliament.

US military spokesman Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell reinforced this account on February 14, but a member of Iraq's parliament and an aide to al-Sadr have denied the claims.

After unsuccessfully contesting the constituency of North Kensington in 1966 and 1970, he was elected to parliament in the general election of February 1974 for Cleveland and Whitby, and became an opposition spokesman in 1976.

In parliament Davey was given a job immediately by Paddy ( now Lord ) Ashdown and became the party's spokesman on Treasury Affairs, adding the post of Whip in 1998, and a third job to hold as the spokesman on London from 2000.

On election to parliament, Laws became a member of the Treasury Committee, and in November 2001 he was appointed the party's deputy Defence spokesman.

With the creation of the Liberal-Conservative Coalition as a result of the election of a hung parliament in 2010, the post which he had shadowed ( Minister for the Armed Forces ) was allocated to the Liberal Democrat Defence spokesman, Nick Harvey MP.

In parliament, he was made a frontbench spokesman on Health in 1997 by Paddy Ashdown.

Monarchist José Calvo Sotelo replaced Gil Robles as the right's leading spokesman in parliament.

Once in parliament, Power became his party's spokesman on Labour, Industrial Relations, and Youth Affairs.

He rapidly became the party's Economic Affairs spokesman in parliament, respected for the intellect of his views if not the often partisan nature of his comments.

In November 2009 he stepped down as the Conservative party's spokesman on employment in the European parliament because he thought the Conservatives ' new policy on not supporting a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty was " confused " and " essentially cosmetic ".

The SNS has refused to vote in favor of the new Montenegrin Constitution adopted in October 2007, with even one of its parliamentarians, spokesman Dobrilo Dedeić publicly tearing the document in parliament, and vowing to fight against the state-sponsored policy of discrimination to the very end.

In the same year, he returned also to parliament for Cambridge University, and became a prominent spokesman of the " country " opposition, but in 1697 he switched to the court party.

As his rhetorical qualities were famous, in parliament he acted as the defence spokesman of the PvdA.

After severe disagreements with her former political mentor Haider in Summer 2002 ( the so-called Knittelfeld Putsch ), she resigned from all of her posts, as did finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser and the party spokesman in parliament, Peter Westenthaler.

During his time in parliament he was appointed spokesman for the Conservative People's Party on business affairs and on agricultural affairs.

The president-delegate of the PRCF is Leon Landini, the president of the National Political Committee ( CPN ) is Jean-Pierre Hemmen, the national, directing spokesman political of Communist Initiative, is George Gastaud, and George Hage, a member of parliament for the Nord ( departement ) and senior of the National Assembly, is the honorary president.

The reaction of a Muslim Brotherhood spokesman to the election was: " We lost seats and a much deserved representation in the parliament.