However only a small minority actually had a voice ; Parliament was elected by only a few percent of the population, ( less than 3 % as late as 1780 ), and the power to call parliament was at the pleasure of the monarch ( usually when he or she needed funds ).

She therefore always worked with parliament and advisers she could trust to tell her the truth — a style of government that her Stuart successors failed to follow.

He or she is elected by and responsible to the Bundestag, Germany's parliament.

However, if the governing party selects a new leader shortly before an election is due, and that new leader is not a member of the legislature, he or she will normally await the upcoming election before running for a seat in parliament.

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.

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.

The president does not have to be a member of parliament, but he / she must be over 40 years old and hold a bachelor's degree.

In 1971 she joined the Social Democratic Party and worked as a lawyer in the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions until she was elected to parliament in 1979.

The following year, she married Derek Bryceson ( a member of Tanzania's parliament and the director of that country's national parks ); he died of cancer in October 1980.

Mary I died in 1558, and she was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth I. Walsingham returned to England, and through the support of one of his fellow former exiles, Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, he was elected to Elizabeth's first parliament as the member for Bossiney, Cornwall, in 1559

She publicly blamed her husband for forcing her to retire ; for example, in a speech commemorating her 25 years in parliament she stated that her retirement was forced on her and that it should please the men of Britain.

In 1962 she was elected the Swedish parliament and in 1962 she was sent as the Swedish delegate to the UN disarmament conference in Geneva, a role she kept until 1973.

Due to her disendorsement, she entered parliament as an independent.

By tradition, the Chancellor has been allowed to drink whatever he or she wishes whilst making the annual Budget Speech to parliament.

Her son's first parliament recognised her right to hold property independently from her husband, as if she were unmarried.

In the 1990s she was member of parliament and chairwoman of the greens in the parliament of Berlin.

During his first appearances in parliament, he talked to the government through her: he would whisper the questions he had to her, and she would ask them loud and clear.

One contemporary commentator stated that she had reputedly convinced the king to promise a pardon if the Duke would appear in the parliament in eight days.

In 2000 she had left parliament because as she claimed, she had only a few months to live before she would die of cancer.

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.