Example sentences of "elect by the national " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voting members were elected by the national parliaments ; ministers who attended did not vote . |
| 2 | A new electoral law , passed by the National Assembly on April 18 , 1989 , and signed by Ortega on April 22 , provided for elections to be overseen by a new Supreme Electoral Council comprising five members elected by the National Assembly from among candidates proposed by the President , including two from opposition parties . |
| 3 | Under a new Constitution approved in a national referendum on Sept. 30 , 1987 [ see p. 35758 ] , ultimate authority now rests in theory with a 51-member National Assembly , elected for a five-year term ; executive authority rests with the President , elected by the National Assembly ( currently Ramsewak Shankar who , elected on Jan. 12 , 1988 , took office on Jan. 25 — see p. 35759 ) , as head of state , head of government , head of the armed forces , and Chair of the Council of State ( the successor of the Supreme Council ) and of the Security Council ( which was to assume all government functions in the event of " war , state of siege or exceptional circumstances to be determined by law " ) . |
| 4 | On July 19 , 1989 , Wojciech Jaruzelski , the outgoing Chairman of the State Council ( head of state ) was elected by the National Assembly to the new office of executive state President , for a six-year term . |
| 5 | On Aug. 1 Zhelyu Zhelev , leader of the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF — the main opposition coalition ) was elected by the National Assembly to replace Mladenov as President . |
| 6 | President : Johan Kraag ( elected by the National Assembly on December 30 , 1990 ) . |
| 7 | Vice-President : Jules Wijdenbosch , also Prime Minister and Minister for Finance ( elected by the National Assembly on December 30 , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | One proposal was for a new head of state to be elected by the National Assembly , but under an alternative plan the National Assembly would elect a Presidium , the chair of which would also assume the post of head of state . |
| 9 | In the first attempt soldiers entered the radio station and ordered a journalist to read a communiqué demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister , Koukou Koffigoh , who had been elected by the national conference on Aug. 27 [ ibid. ] , and the dissolution of his transitional government , known as the High Council of the Republic [ for which see p. 38425 ] . |
| 10 | Having survived the challenge in March he was elected by the National Assembly for a six-year term [ see p. 37318 ] . |