Parliament

A blackout interrupted President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe in the middle of his State of the Nation address on Tuesday, forcing him to deliver part of the speech by torchlight.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan is preparing for a special election in October to replace outgoing Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, who announced his resignation after less than a year in office on Sunday.

A British lawmaker’s decision to launch an AI version of himself to interact with constituents has ignited backlash and controversy about technology’s role in government.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru said on Sunday evening that he intends to remain in office as prime minister, even though his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered an anticipated defeat in Sunday’s elections and lost control of the upper house of the National Diet.

A Lebanese legislator lodged a protest vote in his country’s presidential election on Thursday by choosing American Jewish socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, on Friday demolished Jagmeet Singh of the left-wing New Democrat Party (NDP) for pretending to criticize embattled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau while dancing away from votes that could have removed Trudeau from office.

South Korean Yoon Suk-yeol stunned the world on Tuesday morning by declaring a state of “emergency martial law” because “subversive, anti-state elements” among the opposition are blocking his agenda.

Ukraine war shows need to involve “whole of society” in defence, but public are deeply averse to notion of conscription a report finds.

Formality makes Nigel Farage, Member of Parliament a reality after he won his Clacton seat in last week’s General Election. 

Farage didn’t come in peace to Britain’s Parliament for his first ever speech this week, and was even booed by some members.

Nigel Farage made history on Tuesday as he entered Parliament as head of the group of five newly elected members of Reform UK.

The legislature of Georgia approved a controversial “foreign agent” law despite massive protests in the streets and fistfights in parliament.

Voting begins on Friday in India’s massive election for the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the national Parliament.

A member of Parliament in Georgia triggered a large altercation on Monday after interrupting a fellow lawmaker’s speech by punching him in the face.

Speaker says he had to break convention to protect Members of Parliament from attacks by terrorists if they didn’t vote for a Gaza ceasefire.

Palestine protesters used powerful lasers to write the words of an infamous antisemitic message on Big Ben’s clock tower.

The Indian parliament suspended 79 lawmakers from opposition parties on Monday for disrupting a session, followed by another 48 on Tuesday. 14 others were suspended last week, bringing the total to 141 since December 14 – a remarkably high number of suspensions for even the rowdy Indian legislature.

An intruder penetrated security at the Indian parliament Wednesday, leaping into the lawmakers’ area and detonating a smoke bomb.

Albanian opposition MPs tried to block a vote on the budget by creating chair blockades, setting off smoke bombs, and lighting a small fire.

British left leader sees eight members of his cabinet walk out and dozens more rebel as hardline elements demand immediate Gaza ceasefire. 

In his first opening of Parliament address as reigning Monarch, King Charles III laid out the priorities of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government.

The chairwoman of the UK Parliament’s Culture, Media, and Sports Committee has formally written to streaming platform Rumble asking whether it intends to demonetize comedian/commentator Russell Brand’s channel in the wake of rape and sexual assault allegations.

A researcher in Parliament was arrested earlier this year on suspicion of spying for the Chinese Communist Party, the Sunday Times reported.

The House of Commons declared that Taiwan is an “independent country” as Foreign Secretary Cleverly met with communist leaders in Beijing.

Anger in London over Labour mayor Khan’s push for radical anti-car measures upset the apple cart in a by-election result overnight. 

The Italian Parliament has come out in support of a popular Iranian opposition group seeking a free and democratic Iran, prompting the outrage of Tehran.     

The Kosovo parliament erupted in a melee on Thursday after a lawmaker from the opposition party approached the podium and threw water on Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who was giving a speech about reducing tensions between Serbs and Albanians.

Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox has thrown his hat in the ring for the parliamentary by-election to replace Boris Johnson in Uxbridge.

The upper house of Japan’s parliament, the Diet, dissolved into chaos on Thursday as furious left-wing lawmakers used physical violence in a last-ditch effort to block an immigration bill they opposed.

The newly elected Turkish Parliament will feature 16 different political parties, reports say, including a radical Islamist party accused of ties to the Turkish terror organization Hizballah.

British lawmakers critical of Communist China have claimed to have been targeted by Beijing as a part of an intimidation campaign. 

Zelensky addressed Parliament, praising ‘the coalition of NLAW’ and thanking the United Kingdom “in advance” for the gift of its warplanes.

Haiti reached an unfortunate milestone on Tuesday morning, as the last ten senators in its parliament departed from their offices, leaving the country with no elected officials whatsoever. (Prime Minister Ariel Henry is still there, but he was not elected – he became “acting” leader of the government after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021.)

A Member of Parliament (MP) for Britain’s governing Conservative (Tory) Party plans to put forward a bill that will allow Parliament to strip Prince Harry and wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, of their titles, in response to their politically-charged Netflix series. 

King Charles III has asked Parliament to effectively sideline his woke son Harry and disgraced brother Andrew by amending the Regency Act.

Iraq’s year-long political stalemate ended with a literal bang on Thursday, as Parliament elected former water resources minister Abdul Latif Rashid as president just hours after a barrage of rockets hit Baghdad’s secure Green Zone, where central government offices are located.