Tag: Parliament

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Maduro goads opposition leader Guaidó who called on Davos for an end to the “blood gold” flow out of Venezuela

  

  Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro goaded opposition leader Juan Guaido during a rally in Caracas on Thursday, taunting his rival for failing to unseat him. A year ago, parliament speaker Guaido launched a challenge to Maduro's authority by declaring himself acting president, a move backed by more than 50 countries.

• Thursday, December 19th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Queen opens Parliament and will announce the Conservative government agenda

  

  The Queen is to set out the Conservative government's agenda for the year ahead following their decisive election win last week. Legislation to take the UK out of the EU on 31 January will be among more than 20 bills announced during Thursday's State Opening of Parliament. Other measures include guarantees on extra health service funding and longer sentences for violent criminals.

• Friday, September 27th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  PM Johnson collects a seventh setback in Parliament, but insists with his Brexit strategy

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered yet another setback on Thursday after MPs rejected a request to briefly suspend business for his party's conference, highlighting the hostility he faces in parliament just weeks before Brexit. In his seventh successive defeat in parliament, MPs voted to reject his call for three days off next week to hold his Conservative party's annual conference in Manchester.

• Wednesday, September 4th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Johnson will expel 21 Tory MPs who voted with the opposition

  

  All 21 lawmakers from the ruling Conservative Party who voted against the government to back a motion to seize control of parliamentary time to try to block a no-deal Brexit will be expelled from the party, a spokesman said.

• Monday, January 14th 2019 - 00:50 UTC

  Detention of the Venezuelan Parliament President shows the “rupture” in the Maduro regime

  

  Officials of the Bolivarian Service of National Intelligence (Sebin) retained the deputy Juan Guaidó, President of the National Assembly (AN) and Venezuela’s President-in-charge, when he was going to an open Parliament hall in the north of the country. Minutes later, the parliamentarian was released and attended to the event with a wounded hand and ensuring that the Armed Forces do not want Nicolás Maduro, president considered “de facto” by the Parliament and part of the international community.

• Saturday, January 12th 2019 - 10:46 UTC

  Falkland Islands Representative in UK to retire next October

  

  The Falkland Islands Government announced on Friday that Mrs Sukey Cameron MBE, the Falkland Islands Government Representative in the UK, is to retire in October 2019.

• Monday, January 7th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Rule out a “no-deal Brexit”, 200 plus all parties MPs call on Theresa May

  

  More than 200 MPs from different political parties have signed a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May, urging her to rule out a no-deal Brexit. The MPs - including both Leave and Remain supporters - have been invited to meet the prime minister on Tuesday.

• Monday, December 13th 2010 - 03:01 UTC

  Chavez asks for decree powers ahead of new stronger parliament

  

  Venezuelan opposition leaders fear President Hugo Chavez will use special decree powers he has requested to override an electoral setback that stripped him of a super-majority in parliament.

• Monday, April 26th 2010 - 06:04 UTC

  Lib-Democrats Discard Support for PM Brown if Labour is Third in Popular Vote

  

  Britain’s Liberal Democrats said they would not back Primer Minister Gordon Brown if his party came third in the popular vote on May 6, even if the nation's electoral system gave Labour the most parliamentary seats.