Piano Voting

	Piano Voting Piano voting also known as ghost voting is the practice of a legislator voting for an absent one, either with or without their consent. Piano voting is illegal in many countries. In other countries it's legal for two legislators from opposing parties to agree to vote for the other one if one must be absent. By country Ukraine Piano voting is a common occurrence in Ukraine, even at the parliamentary level in the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian national parliament). The Ukrainian government has attempted to curtail the practice, through disincentives like fines and the installation of sensor technology that makes it more difficult to vote for multiple people. Nonetheless, piano voting remains a serious issue at both the national level and the local level. Armenia There have been several votes in which members of the Parliament of Armenia The National Assembly of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության Ազգային ժողով, ''Hayastani Hanrapetyut'yan Azg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the Wikt:Unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada is composed of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies, who are presided over by a Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, chairman (speaker). The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovna Rada building in Ukraine's capital Kyiv. The deputies elected in the 21 July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election were inaugurated on 29 August 2019. The Verkhovna Rada developed out of the systems of the republican representative body known in the Soviet Union as Supreme Soviet (Supreme Council) that was first established 26 June 1938 as a type of legislature of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR after the dissolution of the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets, Congress of Soviet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	National Assembly (Armenia) The National Assembly of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության Ազգային ժողով, ''Hayastani Hanrapetyut'yan Azgayin zhoghov'' or simply Ազգային ժողով, ԱԺ ''Azgayin Zhoghov'', ''AZh''), also informally referred to as the Parliament of Armenia (խորհրդարան, ''khorhrdaran'') is the legislative branch of the government of Armenia. Overview The National Assembly was originally established in 1918 as the Khorhurd ( hy, Խորհուրդ) by the Armenian National Council following their declaration of independence. Acting as the nation's provisional legislative body, the Armenian National Council tripled its membership, forming an interim coalition government composed of Dashnaks and Populists. Following the Armenian parliamentary elections of 1919, the National Assembly's membership increased again up to 80 deputies including several minority representatives. The Khorhurd continued to function with an overwhelming Dashnak maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Republican Party Of Armenia The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA, hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետական Կուսակցություն, ՀՀԿ; ''Hayastani Hanrapetakan Kusaktsutyun'', ''HHK'') is a national-conservative political party in Armenia led by the third president of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan. It was the first political party in independent Armenia to be founded (April 2, 1990) and registered (May 14, 1991). It is the largest party of the right-wing in Armenia, and claims to have had 140,000 members at its heyday. It was the ruling party of Armenia from 1999 to 2018. After the latest parliamentary elections in June 2021, the party entered parliament as a part of the opposition I Have Honor Alliance. ''The Economist'' magazine has described the RPA as a "typical post-Soviet 'party of power' mainly comprising senior government officials, civil servants, and wealthy business people dependent on government connections." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]