How is elected the speaker of House in your country ?
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In Ireland the Majority Party in the Dail,The Irish Parliament, take\nnominations from Individual Party members and if agreed is\nelected it is very loose arrangement.  The Oldest Member is \nUsually Picked.
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They are voted in by the majority party of the House.\nIf the Dems take the house. Pelosi will be the speaker of the House.
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its like the U.S. in the fact that its a democracy but the president (who is voted into office) is only Head of State (does partys/makes the country look good). The prime minister is the Head of Government and is the leader of the majority in the Legislature.
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The President is elected by Parliament from the candidates which have been nominated by the government. Our current president is APJ Abdul Kalam and the next presidential elections are due in 2007
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Leadership\n\nThe floor leaders and whips of each party are elected by a majority vote of all the Senators of their party assembled in a conference or, as it sometimes is called, a caucus. The practice has been to choose the leader for a two-year term at the beginning of each Congress. The majority and minority leaders are the elected spokespersons on the Senate floor for their respective political parties.\n  \nFloor Leadership\n\nThe positions of the majority and the minority leader, as we know them today, are of recent development in the history of the Senate, although individual Senators since 1789 assumed leading roles in determining the Senate schedule.\n\nFloor leaders - The Majority Leader and Minority Leader are elected by their respective party conferences to serve as the chief Senate spokesmen for their parties and to manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate. By custom, the Presiding Officer gives the floor leaders priority in obtaining recognition to speak on the floor of the Senate. \n\nCurrent Leadership of the Senate:\n\nPresident of the Senate - Richard Cheney\nU.S. Vice President  President Pro Tempore\nTed Stevens - Republican, Alaska \nMajority Leader - Bill Frist Republican, Tennessee  Assistant Majority Leader \n(Republican Whip) Mitch McConnell Republican, Kentucky  \nMinority Leader Harry Reid Democrat, Nevada \n\nhttp://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Leadership_vrd.htm
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Because our government is set up along a "winner take all" system.  Only the top two contenders in any race will ever be taken seriously, that's why we only have two parties.\n\nThe other countries that have multiple parties are one with parlimentary goverments.  With the parlimentary system, in the election you vote for a PARTY instead of a candidate.  Then each party get a number of MP's (Members of Parliament) based on their percentage of the vote and then the new MP's choose the prime minister.  Since your vote won't be "wasted" voting for a 3rd, 4th, or 5th party, people feel fine doing so in a parliamentary government.
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The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the lower house of Congress, the House of Representatives. The current Speaker is Dennis Hastert, a Republican Congressman from Illinois, whose term will expire at the end of the 109th Congress on January 3, 2007. Owing to the recent victory of the Democratic Party in the 2006 midterm elections, Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, is likely to be elected Speaker of the House for the 110th Congress.\nThe office of Speaker was created by the Constitution of the United States. The Speaker is elected by the House of Representatives, and is its highest-ranking officer. Although the text of the Constitution does not require the Speaker to also be a member of the House, in fact the Speaker has always been a Representative. The Speaker is always a member of the majority party, and is that party's leader, outranking the House Majority Leader.\nThe "Speaker of the House," as the officer is colloquially known, does not normally personally preside over debates, instead delegating the duty to other members of Congress. Aside from duties relating to heading the House and his or her political party, the Speaker also performs administrative and procedural functions, and remains the Representative of his or her congressional district.\nIn the Presidential Line of Succession, the Speaker is second in the line, after the Vice President of the United States and before the President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate.
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People always elected the house. Stage legislatures used to elect senate but now people do
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They use a parallel electoral system. Out of the 450 members in the Duma, half are elected in SMDs using the Plurality system and the other half are elected by regional lists using PR. A party needs a threshold of 5% to qualify. The results are very disproportional.
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Actually, in the USA, we are supposed to elect representatives, not leaders.  \n\nThe main problem with voters today is that they think they are supposed to choose a leader.
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A prime minister is elected from parliament to be the head of the government.  A president is completely separate from the legislative body.  A vice president is usually pretty powerless - fulfilling the duties the president can't or doesn't want to do.
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It is a parliament without a senat. The laws are passed directly. They form a select-comittee, it drafts up a bill, they represent it before the parliament and the whole parliament votes. If it has the votes needed (that number is usually set in the constitution of each country) the law is passed. Again acording to the constitution, but in most parliamentary countries with unicameral parliament it is so, the president, if he is not to "like" the law, has the right of a veto. Which means he can make them rewrite ot change it and vote again. But there is no senat.\nSuch parliaments have the countries who are reformed and did not really have aristocracy or are not fedarations.
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It is called Parliament.
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If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the House of Representatives elects the President from the 3 Presidential candidates who received the most electoral votes. Each State delegation has one vote. The Senate would elect the Vice President from the 2 Vice Presidential candidates with the most electoral votes. Each Senator would cast one vote for Vice President. If the House of Representatives fails to elect a President by Inauguration Day, the Vice-President Elect serves as acting President until the deadlock is resolved in the House.
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There was a time when Speakers of the House were all powerful. Those days are long gone. Nevertheless, Speakers still possess a few formidable powers worth noting:\n\n1. The Speaker is the chair of the steering committee that chooses all committee chairs.\n\n2. The Speaker directs all bills to their respective committees. (This is a HUGE power -- as if the Speaker hates the bill he can send it to a committee he knows will kill it -- or vice versa).\n\n3. The Speaker is personally responsible for elevating members to the all powerful (and never to be messed with) "Rules Committee".\n\n4. The Speaker is responsible for organizing floor debates, ruling on the acceptability of floor motions, and recognizing members who wish to address the House.\n\n5. In any dealings with the Senate, the Speaker appoints all members of conference committees.\n\n6. Because of all of these things, the Speaker is the agenda setter of the House. What bills are heard? What bills simply get thrown away? What policies do we wish to impact, and how? These are all questions that only the Speaker gets to answer.\n\nAs I said, there was a time when Speakers could singlehandedly destroy members. Those days have passed; but still the Speaker is the primary person for creating the rhythm and flow of the House. And that's not bad.\n\nHope this answer helps. Cheers, mate.
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The upper house is the House of Lords, or in the USA it is the Senate. The lower house is the House of Commons, in the USA the House of Representatives.
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They also have a House of Lords whose members inherit the\nseat rather than being elected. They rubber-stamp the legislation that Parliament passes.\n Their Prime Minister has more power in the Legislative branch of their government than the U.S. President may have\n in\nthe American Legislature. This is because he doesn't have to\ndeal with potential problems like,for example,a Congress or\nSenate with the majority of members belonging to the opposing party.\n As well,the British have a three-party system. These parties are the Conservatives,the Liberals and the Labor Party. The Conservative and Labor parties are the two main\nones,with the Liberals taking a relatively small percentage of the votes in elections.