Member of parliament
Representative in parliament of the people who elect them.
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Caucus
Meeting of supporters or members of a specific political party or movement.
It has spread to certain Commonwealth countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, where it generally refers to a regular meeting of all members of Parliament who belong to a parliamentary party: in such a context, a party caucus can be quite powerful, as it has the ability to elect or dismiss the party's parliamentary leader.
Parliamentary system
System of democratic governance of a state where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which it is accountable.
Countries with parliamentary systems may be constitutional monarchies, where a monarch is the head of state while the head of government is almost always a member of parliament, or parliamentary republics, where a mostly ceremonial president is the head of state while the head of government is regularly from the legislature.
Parliamentary group
Group consisting of members of the same political party or electoral fusion of parties in a legislative assembly such as a parliament or a city council.
In the United Kingdom Parliament there exist associations of MPs called "all-party parliamentary groups", which bring together members of different parliamentary groups who wish to involve themselves with a particular subject.
President of Bangladesh
Head of state of Bangladesh and commander-in-chief of the Bangladesh Armed Forces.
Although presidential elections involve actual voting by MPs, they tend to vote for the candidate supported by their respective parties.
Jatiya Sangsad
Supreme legislative body of Bangladesh.
The maximum strength of the Parliament envisaged by the Constitution of Bangladesh is 350, which is made up by the general election of 300 members to represent 300 parliamentary constituencies and 50 seats reserved for women, which are apportioned on elected party position in the parliament.
Member of the Legislative Assembly
Representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly.
Members of the Legislative Assembly use the suffix MP instead of MLA in the states of New South Wales and Queensland.
Member of Provincial Parliament (Canada)
Elected member of the Legislative Assembly of the Canadian province of Ontario.
In 1938, Frederick Fraser Hunter, the Member for St. Patrick, introduced a private member's bill to designate members with the title Member of Parliament (MP), arguing that the titles of MPP or MLA were confusing, inaccurate, and undignified.
Parliament of Canada
Federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons.
Only those who sit in the House of Commons are usually called members of Parliament (MPs); the term is not usually applied to senators (except in legislation, such as the Parliament of Canada Act), even though the Senate is a part of Parliament.
Teachta Dála
Member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament).
It is the equivalent of terms such as Member of Parliament (MP) or Member of Congress used in other countries.
Member of Congress
Person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature.
The term member of parliament (MP) is an equivalent term in other, unaffiliated jurisdictions.