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  • This in the country where the leader of the ruling party, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, at least three chief ministers, and a number of sports and business icons are women.

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  • These were published on the website of the lower house of parliament.

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  • In January, two Islamist parties -- the Freedom and Justice Party with 235 seats and the conservative Al Nour party with 121 seats -- won about 70% of the seats in the lower house of parliament in the first elections for an elected governing body in the post-Mubarak era.

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  • Appointed a life peer in the House of Lords, she held junior ministerial posts before becoming leader of the upper house of Parliament, a big job with cabinet status, where she earned a reputation as a shrewd political manager.

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  • The Indian government appointed him a member of the upper house of parliament in Delhi.

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  • The other is Bronislaw Komorowski, the speaker of the lower house of the Polish parliament, who has been acting president since the crash.

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  • Before his good performance in the presidential election he won a seat in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, for the city of Tula, south of Moscow.

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  • In 2005, the Brotherhood won nearly a fifth of the seats in the lower house of parliament.

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  • "It's an embarrassment, " says Mayumi Moriyama, a member of the lower house of parliament and a former education minister.

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  • That will be easier thanks to a big shift in the lower house of parliament, the Duma.

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