This royal charter will only be changed with a two thirds majority of MPs and peers.
At a previous meeting in 2010, similar restrictions fell just short of the required-two thirds majority.
Even though the vote was 92 to 42 in favour, it barely reached the two thirds majority needed to become part of Cites regulations.
The speaker's election required a two-thirds majority for the first two rounds and a simple majority in the voting reaches a third round, said analyst Macharia Munene, an international relations professor at Nairobi's United States International University.
Californians also voted to let their state legislature pass budgets with a simple majority, instead of a two-thirds majority, while keeping a two-thirds requirement for any tax increase.
Among its nine initiatives, California offered a proposition that could reduce government gridlock by lowering the minimum needed for the legislature to approve a state budget, making it a simple majority instead of a two-thirds majority.
He could revive a proposal the king firmly rejected some weeks ago: to form a new government based on an absolute majority instead of the required two-thirds majority.
Most crucially, it has still not been decided whether the two-thirds majority required for a conviction means two-thirds of the 24 Senate seats (two of which are vacant), or two-thirds of the 22 sitting senators, a distinction that could be critical.
Her four-party alliance, which has a two-thirds majority in the new parliament, contains two hardline Islamic parties, a fact that has made the Americans sit up and take notice.
In the October 15th referendum, three provinces, had they voted against the constitution by a two-thirds majority, could have rejected it, but according to what are now official results, only two majority Sunni provinces did that.
To do so, they must win either a majority of votes overall or take a two-thirds majority in three out of the 18 provinces.
The amendment received the support of a majority, though it fell short of the two-thirds majority required for constitutional changes.
Mr. Najib replaced former leader Mr. Badawi in 2009 after the opposition broke the National Front's comfortable two-thirds majority in the 2008 polls, turning Malaysia into a genuine two-party system for the first time in its history.
Mr. Najib himself replaced former leader Abdullah Badawi in 2009 after the opposition broke the National Front's comfortable two-thirds majority in the 2008 polls, turning Malaysia into a genuine two-party system for the first time in its history.
The referendum was held only because, under pressure from the League, Mr Berlusconi rammed the reform through parliament by a simple majority, rather than strike a deal with the opposition to secure a two-thirds majority in each parliamentary chamber.
It won majority support but did not pass because it was brought up under special rules requiring a two-thirds majority.
The bill fell one vote shy of the two-thirds majority an amendment to the Constitution requires.
The National Front lost its two-thirds majority for the first time in the 2008 elections.
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The cardinals will vote four times daily until a single candidate garners a two-thirds majority.
It would take a two-thirds majority in each house of Congress to do so.
Guatemala consistently came out on top, but it hasn't won the two-thirds majority needed.
Sri Lanka's system of proportional representation makes the magical two-thirds majority hard to reach.
Congress would vote on each increase, but a two-thirds majority would be required to block them.
The plan now goes to the legislature where it needs a two-thirds majority to pass.
Such appointments require a two-thirds majority, and thus would have involved an agreement with the opposition.
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PML-N under Sharif received a huge public mandate in 1997 and formed a government with two-thirds majority.
The two main parties discussed this inconclusively when they had the two-thirds majority needed for constitutional change.
When voting fails to produce the two-thirds majority required for a new pontiff, the smoke is black.
Because the bill requires changes to California tax law, its passage requires a two-thirds majority vote .
His party does not have the necessary two-thirds majority in the assembly to rule on its own.
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