Piqued by an attempt by lawmakers to almost double their salaries, a cross-party group of legislators launched an independent candidate for president of the lower house.
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The pope's response to this and other cases is attracting criticism, including from prominent laymen such as Wolfgang Thierse, a former Social Democrat president of Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag.
On current trends, only around 70 unconditional supporters of the president are likely to win seats in the lower house, and perhaps 30 followers of Mr Duhalde.
Later during her trip, she is due to the country's remote capital, Naypyitaw, to meet President Thein Sein, the speaker of the lower house Thura Shwe Mann and Railways Minister Aung Min.
The other is Bronislaw Komorowski, the speaker of the lower house of the Polish parliament, who has been acting president since the crash.
Now, as part of the negotiations between both houses, the lower house has proposed a compromise that could give the president even less of a tax cut.
The move thrust Munoz into the senior ranks of the White House, though she continues to maintain a lower profile than many of the president's top advisers.
Where once the Duma the lower house of parliament furiously tried to impeach the president, and the Kremlin sacked prime ministers on a whim, the worries now are about missed growth and inflation targets or the slow progress of useful bits of legislation.
David Fleischer, a political scientist at Brasilia University, reckons that a President Lula could win over 309 deputies in the 513-seat lower house and 48 of 81 senators.
President Thein Sein, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the speaker of parliament's lower house on Sunday issued a joint declaration in the face of the deadly communal violence.
Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma, endorsed Sergei Kiriyenko , a nominee of President Boris Yeltsin, as prime minister.
The president went on to cut a deal with Mr Magalhaes and the heads of the Supreme Court and the lower house of Congress on a compromise figure of 11, 500 reais a month for the civil-service salary cap.
It was the assessment at the White House that because of the situation in Lower Manhattan, it would not be appropriate for the President, for the very resource allocation issue, to visit New York at this time.
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