Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post of President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed to merge the party into The People of Freedom ( PdL ).

In the 2006 general election, the final election to which the party participated with its own list, AN won 12. 3 % of the vote, securing 71 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 41 in the Senate.

Legislative power is vested upon the National Congress, a two-chamber legislature comprising the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.

" The members of the CDN are the president, the vice president, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, the president of the Senate, the minister of justice, military ministers, the minister of foreign affairs, and the minister of planning.

On 14 July 1879, another feast took place, with a semi-official aspect ; the events of the day included a reception in the Chamber of Deputies, organised and presided over by Léon Gambetta, a military review in Longchamp, and a Republican Feast in the Pré Catelan.

In its " Agreement ", on August 22, 1973, the Chamber of Deputies of Chile asserted that Chilean democracy had broken down and called for " redirecting government activity ", to restore constitutional rule.

The bicameral National Congress ( Congreso Nacional ) consists of the Senate ( Senado ) and the Chamber of Deputies ( Cámara de Diputados ).

The Chamber of Deputies has 120 members, who are elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms.

The current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

The Legislature is bicameral, with the Chamber of Deputies ( Poslanecká sněmovna ) and the Senate ( Senát ).

At the time of the Lisbon Treaty ratification, they were actively campaigning against it, unlike the governing Civic Democratic Party, who endorsed it in the Chamber of Deputies.

As of 2010 the bill has not yet been passed by the Chamber of Deputies.

Verdi was elected as a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1861 following a request of Prime Minister Cavour but in 1865 he resigned from the office.

In January 1999, Préval dismissed legislators whose terms had expired – the entire Chamber of Deputies and all but nine members of the Senate, and Préval then ruled by decree.

In May 2000 the Haitian legislative election, 2000 for the Chamber of Deputies and two-thirds of the Senate took place.

On becoming king, Louis issued a constitution known as the Charter which preserved many of the liberties won during the French Revolution and provided for a parliament composed of an elected Chamber of Deputies and a Chamber of Peers that was nominated by the king.

However the right to vote in elections to the Chamber of Deputies was restricted to only the wealthiest men.

The elections of deputies to the 16 May 1830 had gone very badly for King Charles X. Charles X reacted by proroguing the Chamber of Deputies and sending them all packing, and then unilaterally changed the electional laws in an attempt to create a new Chamber of Deputies more favorable to him, and muzzled the press.

The new constitution provided for universal male suffrage and called for a bi-cameral legislature, consisting of a Senate and a Chamber of Deputies.

However, 75 of the monarchists elected to the new Chamber of Deputies were Bonapartists.

He was too conservative for the Chamber of Deputies and Simon was forced to resign on 16 May 1877, setting the stage for the " Crisis of the Sixteenth of May.

Edmund Morris, in his biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, describes a young Roosevelt, newly elected to the State Assembly, walking into the House Chamber for the first time in this trendy, affected gait, somewhat to the amusement of the older and more rural Members who were present.

A bicameral parliament was also created, in which an elected lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies ( with one deputy for every 12, 000 people in Albania and one for the Albanian community in the United States ), appointed members of its own ranks to an upper chamber, the Senate.

His title gave him a seat in the Upper Chamber of the Diet of Japan, and in 1933, he was elected President of the House of Peers.

Legislative power is vested in the Chamber of Deputies, elected directly to five-year terms.

Earl Browder, head of the Communist Party USA, stated that " there is as much chance of agreement as of Earl Browder being elected president of the Chamber of Commerce.

In 1921 he abandoned the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ) and adhered to the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ), with which he was elected in the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1924.

He was elected as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies for the first time and appointed as Prime Minister following the March 1994 parliamentary elections, when Forza Italia gained a relative majority a mere three months after having been officially launched.

The Sejm now comprised two chambers: the ' Senat ' ( Senate ) of 81 bishops and other dignitaries, and the Chamber of Envoys, made up of 54 envoys elected by small Sejms ( local assemblies of landed nobility ) in each of the Kingdom's provinces.

The Chamber of Envoys, despite its name, consisted not only of 77 envoys ( sent by local assemblies ) from the hereditary nobility, but also of 51 deputies, elected by the non-noble population.

In 1937, he was elected president of the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) and at that year's biennial congress in Berlin stated the conference keynote to be " World Peace Through World Trade ".

The legislative power is constituted by the General Assembly, composed of two chambers: the Chamber of Deputies of 99 members representing the 19 departments, elected based on proportional representation ; and the Chamber of Senators consisting of 31 members, 30 of whom are elected for a five year term by proportional representation and the Vice-president, who presides over the chamber.

The Chamber of Deputies ( Cámara de Diputados ) has 99 members, elected for a five year term by proportional representation.

The Chamber of Senators ( Cámara de Senadores ) has 31 members ; 30 members are elected for a five year term by proportional representation and the Vice-president who presides over it.

That same year he ran for and was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies representing the Third Federal District in León, Guanajuato.

* September 29 – The Chamber of Deputies of Brazil votes to impeach President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello, the country's first democratically elected leader in 29 years.

The Tweede Kamer ( Second Chamber or House of Representatives or House of Commons ) was elected by the Provincial States, which were in turn chosen by census suffrage.

In 1846 he sought election to the Chamber of Deputies as an official candidate of the Guizot ministry.

James Marie-Antoine Monjaret de Kerjégu ( 27 February 1846 – 23 December 1908 ), French diplomat and politician, was born in Trévarez-Saint-Goazec ( Finistère ) to an ancient Breton family ; his father, François-Marie Jacques de Kerjégu, was a member of the Chamber of Deputies and later a senator ; two of his uncles had also been members of parliament.

In 1846 he was returned to the Chamber of Deputies for Hérault, but the revolution of 1848 drove him into private life, from which he only emerged after the downfall of the Second Empire, when in February 1871 he was returned to the National Assembly.

But when former Gov. Marvin Griffin and Lt. Gov. Byrd accepted the invitations of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce to join the tour next November, the situation was aggravated.

The plan was supported by Frederick P. Fish, counsel for the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce.

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

The " Jerusalem Chamber ” is a replica of the room in Westminster Abbey in which work on the King James Version of the Bible was conducted, and it displays a collection of rare Bibles.

Since 1964, following clashes between the two communities, the Turkish Cypriot seats in the House remained vacant, while the Greek Cypriot Communal Chamber was abolished.

It was intended for " the Upper Columns in the Gallery of the Entrance of the Chamber of the Senate " ( United States Capitol exhibit ).

In its original permanent dispositions, it gave the President of the Republic a large amount of power ; however, some of these dispositions, such as the power of dissolving the Lower Chamber of Congress and serving eight year terms with possibility of reelection, were modified or eliminated after 1990, when the country regained its democracy and the Congress was reestablished.

The new WIC had a capital that was slightly more than 6 million guilders around 1679, which was largely supplied by the Amsterdam Chamber.

At the time, he was working on the " Reading of the Declaration of Independence Mural " which was later installed in the House Chamber.

Catherine Champernowne, better known by her later, married name of Catherine " Kat " Ashley, was appointed as Elizabeth's governess in 1537, and she remained Elizabeth's friend until her death in 1565, when Blanche Parry succeeded her as Chief Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber.

Historian Mark Stoyle suggests that she was probably taught Cornish by William Killigrew, Groom of the Privy Chamber and later Chamberlain of the Exchequer.

In 1589, he received the valuable appointment of reversion to the Clerkship of the Star Chamber, although he did not formally take office until 1608 – a post which was worth £ 16, 000 a year.

He became a full professor at Maryland in 1959, and was chosen that year by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of the country's ten outstanding young men.

Some Egyptologists suggest this Lower Chamber was intended to be the original burial chamber, but Pharaoh Khufu later changed his mind and wanted it to be higher up in the pyramid.

The horizontal distance was cut in 1872 by a British engineer, Waynman Dixon, who believed on the analogy of the King's Chamber that such shafts must exist.

He was proved right, but because the shafts are not connected to the outer faces of the pyramid or the Queen's Chamber, their purpose is unknown.

The sarcophagus is slightly larger than the Ascending Passage, which indicates that it must have been placed in the Chamber before the roof was put in place.

The galliard was a favourite dance of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and although it is a relatively vigorous dance, in 1589 when the Queen was aged in her mid fifties, John Stanhope of the Privy Chamber reported, " the Queen is so well as I assure you, six or seven galliards in a morning, besides music and singing, is her ordinary exercise.