A parliamentary system may be either bicameral, with two chambers of parliament (or houses) or unicameral, with just one parliamentary chamber.A bicameral parliament usually consists of a directly elected lower house with the power to determine the executive government, and an upper house which may be appointed or elected through a different mechanism from the lower …

The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London.It alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all other political bodies in the UK and the overseas territories. Parliament is bicameral but …

The Parliament of Pakistan (Urdu: مجلسِ شوریٰ پاکستان, Majlis-e-Shūrā Pākistān, lit. "Pakistan Advisory Council" or "Pakistan Consultative Assembly") is the federal and supreme legislative body of Pakistan.It is a bicameral federal legislature that consists of the Senate as the upper house and the National Assembly as the lower house.

In 1918 the first Georgian National Parliament was established in the newly independent Democratic Republic of Georgia.In 1921 the Parliament adopted the first Georgian Constitution.However, shortly after the adoption of the Constitution, Georgia was occupied by the Bolshevik Red Army.This was followed by a 69-year-long absence of independent …

The politics of Belgium take place in the framework of a federal, representative democratic, constitutional monarchy.The King of the Belgians is the head of state, and the prime minister of Belgium is the head of government, in a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Federal legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers …

The Italian Parliament (Italian: Parlamento italiano) is the national parliament of the Italian Republic.It is the representative body of Italian citizens and is the successor to the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1943), the transitional National Council (1945–1946) and the Constituent Assembly (1946–1948). It is a bicameral legislature with 600 elected members …

The Federal Parliamentary Assembly (Amharic: የፌዴራል ፓርላማ ምክር ቤት, romanized: Ye-Fēdēralawī Parilama Mikir Bēt) is Ethiopia's federal legislature.It consists of two chambers: The House of Federation (upper chamber); The House of Peoples' Representatives (lower chamber); Created with the adoption of the Ethiopian Constitution of 1995, the Parliament replaced the ...

The Parliament of India (IAST: Bhāratīya Sansad) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India.It is a bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People). The president in his role as head of the legislature has full powers to summon and prorogue either house of …

The Federal Parliament is the bicameral parliament of Belgium.It consists of the Chamber of Representatives (Dutch: Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers (help · info), French: Chambre des Représentants, German: Abgeordnetenkammer) and the Senate (Dutch: Senaat (help · info), French: Sénat, German: Senat).It sits in the Palace of the Nation (French: Palais de la Nation, …

Nearly every country in the world has some form of parliament. Parliamentary systems fall into two categories: bicameral and unicameral. Out of 190 parliaments in the world, 79 are bicameral (158 chambers) and 111 are unicameral, making a total of 269 chambers of parliament with some 44,000 members of parliament.