The Secretary-General of the Congress ( i. e. the principal organiser ) was Dr Harold Frith who was not only one of the hardliners of the ‘ scientists ’ faction of the pre-reform RAOU, but had also threatened to start a competing group with its own journal if the reforms had not proceeded.

Areas often retain the designations they held under pre-reform legislation, though these titles no longer indicate a legal status.

The letter is called back yer in the pre-reform Russian orthography, in Old Russian, and in Old Church Slavonic.

Printing houses set up by the emigrants from Russia kept using the pre-reform orthography for some time, however gradually they adopted the new spelling.

Fisheries and agriculture were particularly visible failures ; PescaPeru aggressively overfished the anchoveta, a fish used primarily as material for fishmeal production and a key element in the Peruvian sea ecosystem, which resulted in record production for a couple of years but combined with an El Niño event in 1972 led to an absolute collapse that would take over a decade to partially recover, while the badly mismanaged agrarian reform resulted in the creation of thousands of capital-poor and mostly uneducated small farmers whose production and distribution capacity fell substantially short of the pre-reform production.

* Spelling reforms render pre-reform writings more difficult to understand and read correctly in their original form, often necessitating translation and republication.

Not all Atlassers became members, but many did, and most of them were not interested in subscribing to the Emu but were happy to receive the RAOU Newsletter that contained all the informal in-house news that the pre-reform Emu had carried.

After the Legislative Yuan rejected Chu, Li was obliged to choose Yan Xishan instead.

Under the pretext that new elections could not be held in Communist-occupied constituencies, the National Assembly, Legislative Yuan, and Control Yuan members held their posts indefinitely.

As more and more of its demands were met during the 1990s – such as the direct popular election of Taiwan's president and all representatives in its Legislative Yuan, and open discussion of Taiwan's repressive past as represented in the 2-28 Incident and its long martial law aftermath – a greater variety of views could be advocated in the more liberal political atmosphere.

Once the DPP had representation in the Legislative Yuan ( LY, Congress ), the party used the legislature as a forum to challenge the government.

Fears that the DPP would one day take control of the legislature led then-President Lee Teng-hui to push through a series of amendments to strengthen presidential power ( for example, Taiwan's premier would no longer have to be confirmed by the Legislative Yuan ).

The DPP became the largest party having reached a plurality in the Legislative Yuan for the first time in 2002 following the 2001 legislative election.

In the national elections held in early months of 2008 the DPP won less than 25 % of the seats ( 38. 2 % vote share ) in the new Legislative Yuan while its presidential candidate, former Kaohsiung mayor Frank Hsieh, lost to KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou by a wide margin ( 41. 55 % vs. 58. 45 %).

* 1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.

She was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1930 to 1932 and Secretary-General of the Chinese Aeronautical Affairs Commission from 1936 to 1938.

* May 18 – The first Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.

In 1991 the Legislative Yuan and National Assembly elected in 1947 were forced to resign.

The constitution was further amended in 2005, creating a two-vote electoral system, with single member plurality seats and proportional representative seats, and abolishing the National Assembly, transferring most of its former powers to the Legislative Yuan, and leaving further amendment voting to public referendums.

Recent allegations about corruption inside the First Family had led to three recall motions votes in the Legislative Yuan aimed at ousting President Chen Shui-bian.

The KMT also retained control of the legislature in the Legislative Yuan elections in January 2008.

Ma was re-elected, and the KMT retained its majority in the Legislative Yuan, in combined elections in January 2012.

Aborigines are currently represented by eight members out of 225 seats in the Legislative Yuan.

(" Legislative Yuan " 2004 ) The tendency of Taiwanese aborigines to vote for members of the pan-blue coalition, has been cited as having the potential to change the balance of the legislature.

Moreover, during this time, the power of the premier to approve the president's appointments and the power of the Legislative Yuan to confirm the president's choice of premier was removed establishing the president as the more powerful position of the two.

After the 2000 election of Chen Shui-bian as president, the presidency and the Legislative Yuan were controlled by different parties which brought forth a number of latent constitutional issues such as the role of the legislature in appointing and dismissing a premier, the right of the president to call a special session of the legislature, and who has the power to call a referendum.

In the 2001 Legislative Yuan election, the party only won 1 seat in Kinmen.

In the 2008 and 2012 Legislative Yuan elections, the party didn't win any seats.

Li Ao was a candidate for the 2006 Taipei Mayoral election, and is currently a candidate for the 2012 Legislative Yuan elections, campaigning in Taipei City District 8 under the People First Party ( PFP ) banner.

On October 24, 2006, Li sprayed tear gas and wielded a stun gun during a Legislative Yuan National Defense Committee meeting, forcing several members of parliament to flee.

Category: Members of the 6th Legislative Yuan

Mackenzie was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a supporter of George Brown in 1861.

Astoria was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 20, 1876.

The Atlantic Baptist University Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 2008.

A new constitution was adopted in 2007 ( the Virgin Islands Constitution Order, 2007 ) and came into force when the Legislative Council was dissolved for the 2007 general election.

Before then, the government was a Crown colony consisting of either colonial administration solely ( such as the Executive Council ), or a mixture of colonial rule and a partially elected assembly, such as the Legislative Council.

However, in November 1992 elections were held for an enlarged Legislative Assembly and the Government was soundly defeated, casting doubt on constitutional reform.

In particular, an attempt by the Legislative Assembly to approve a law that opened up the electricity and telecommunication markets ( controlled by a monopoly of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity-ICE ) to market competition, known as the " Combo " law, was met with strong social opposition.

The CLP dominated the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from its establishment in 1978 to 2001, but lost Government in 2001 and was reduced to four parliamentary members in 2005.

After the 1974 federal election and subsequent Joint Sitting of parliament, legislation was passed to create a unicameral Legislative Assembly, as well as members with full voting rights at a federal level.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to send away the Swiss guards, he refused, and was arrested for treason to the nation and sent to Orléans to be tried.

* The Legislative Council: essentially the rubber-stamp Parliament, it was made up of People Commissioners ( known elsewhere as MPs ), who were sometimes elected, as individual members of the party, and always on the party platform.

Until 2009, when the new constitution came into force and created the Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the islands was the Legislative Council, which had existed since the 19th century.

* 1950-Gibraltar's first Legislative Council was opened.

In 1960 another constitutional evolution established the post of Chief Minister, making the leader of the majority party in the Legislative Council, which at that time was Herbert Blaize, effective head of government.

The early colonial governors held an almost autocratic power due to the distance from and poor communications with Great Britain, until 1824 when the New South Wales Legislative Council, Australia's first legislative body, was appointed to advise the governor.

In 1792, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax was sent to the colony by the French Legislative Assembly as part of the Revolutionary Commission.

The Imperial Legislative Council was enlarged from 25 to 60 members and separate communal representation for Muslims was established in a dramatic step towards representative and responsible government.

The European settlers were allowed to elect representatives to the Legislative Council in 1920, when the colony was established.

Though in jail, Nkrumah's CPP was elected by a landslide taking 34 out of 38 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly.

Under the amended constitution, the country's unicameral parliament, the Legislative Assembly, was renamed the National Assembly.