In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

Since September 2010, the Parliament of Catalonia has considered Aranese Occitan to be the officially preferred language for use in the Val d ' Aran.

The comarca is a commonwealth, or union, of municipalities with competences in several fields ( Law 6 / 1987 of the Parliament of Catalonia ).

Category: Presidents of the Parliament of Catalonia

In the 2004 European Parliament election IU won only 1 Member of the European Parliament from the previous 4 in 1999 ( IU was in a joint list with Initiative For Catalonia that won 2 MEPs-one for each-that joined separate groups in the European Parliament ).

In 1980 Frutos was elected a member of the Parliament of Catalonia and in 1981 General Secretary of PSUC he would remain in those positions until 1982 and 1984.

In 2003, the socialist mayor, Manuel Valls, ( born 13 August 1962, in Barcelona, Catalonia, French nationality by naturalisation in 1982 ,) and who is also the constituency deputé ( Member of Parliament ) and a qualified avocat ( barrister ), finally embarked upon a massive safeguard plan designed to entirely renovate the more defavourised areas which includes much demolition of the obsolete 1960s buildings ( especially in the " Pyramides " quarter, once the French equivalent of the Gorbals ), and the upgrading of the more recent residential structures and schools.

It consists of the Parliament, the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Government of Catalonia.

For instance, English historian of constitutionalism Charles Howard McIlwain wrote that the Parliament of Catalonia, during the 14th century, had a more defined organization and met more regularly than the parliaments of England or France.

On March 20, 1980, the first Parliament of Catalonia elections after Franco's regime were celebrated.

He was also the last President of Parliament of Catalonia at the end of Republican Catalan resistance in the Spanish Civil War, before Francisco Franco abolished the Generalitat de Catalunya.

He was elected President of the Parliament of Catalonia on 1 October 1938.

Category: Presidents of the Parliament of Catalonia

In 1626, Claris was elected as a representative of the church at the Parliament of Catalonia ( Corts catalanes ), which opened on March 28 amid a troublesome political situation after the new king of Spain, Philip IV, would not ratify the Catalan constitutions, due to tax reasons and the question if royal officers had to follow the Catalan law.

Currently, 2 out of the 12 MPs at the regional Parliament of Catalonia adscribed to the IpC-EUiA group are members of this latter party.

In 2010, it was named the third official language of the whole of Catalonia by Parliament of Catalonia.

His party finally won 62 of the 135 seats in the Catalan Parliament, thus ensuring that Mas will head the next regional government as president of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

He was also involved in political life after the end of Franco's dictatorship as member of the Parliament of Catalonia.

* 1980 Parliament of Catalonia elections: 12, 963 votes ( 0. 48 %)

* 1984 Parliament of Catalonia elections: 2, 593 votes ( 0. 09 %)

Alicante contributes with 12 deputies in the Spanish Parliament and with 36 deputies in the Corts Valencianes, the regional Parliament of the Valencian Community.

It consists of the Corts Valencianes ( or autonomous Parliament ), the President of the Generalitat, and the autonomous government itself ( or Consell ).

She is a member of the National Council of the People's Party of Spain and Representative in the Valencian regional Parliament ( Corts Valencianes ).

A few days after this Englishman appeared, Defoe reported to Oxford that Steele was expected to move in Parliament that the Duke be called over ; ;

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.

*( c ) It may be granted upon condition, cujus est dare, ejus est disponere, and this denization of an alien may come about three ways: by Parliament ; by letters patent, which was the usual manner ; and by conquest.

By 1903 the Liberals were so dominant that there was no longer an organized opposition in Parliament.

Mackenzie's faith was to link him to the increasingly influential temperance cause, particularly strong in Ontario where he lived, a constituency of which he was to represent in the Parliament of Canada.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

Finally Amadeus of Savoy, Duke of Ostia, was elected by Parliament as new King of Spain.

After Amadeus abandonment in 1873, Parliament declared the Federal Republic ( including the Cuba, Puerto Ico and he Pacific Archipelagos ), the first act of President Estanbislao Figueras was to extend the Abolition Act to Puerto Rico.

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

The Parliament of Scotland was not happy with the Act of Settlement and, in response, passed the Act of Security in 1704, through which Scotland reserved the right to choose its own successor to Queen Anne.

Stemming from this, the Parliament of England decided that, to ensure the stability and future prosperity of Great Britain, full union of the two parliaments and nations was essential before Anne's death and used a combination of exclusionary legislation ( the Alien Act of 1705 ), politics, and bribery to achieve it within three years under the Act of Union 1707.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

In 1879 he was elected a member of the Landsting ( one of two chambers of the Danish Parliament, the Rigsdagen ); but it is as a teacher at the university that he won his reputation.

She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010.

In an interview with Metro in September 2006 she stated that if Parliament were of a normal length, it was likely she would retire at the next general election .< ref >

The city was known as Afyon ( opium ), until the name was changed to Afyonkarahisar by the Turkish Parliament in 2004.

The Sakharov Prize, established in 1988 and awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, was named in his honor.

In England, an Oath of Abjuration was taken by Members of Parliament, clergy, and laymen, pledging to support the current British monarch and repudiated the right of the Stuarts and other claimants to the throne.

Accrington was first represented nationally after the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 after the 1885 general election by Accrington ( UK Parliament constituency ).

This seat was abolished in the 1983 general election and replaced with the present constituency of Hyndburn ( UK Parliament constituency ).