Sentence examples for directly elected from from inspiring English sources

The remaining 47 are directly elected from among candidates who are Samoan matai (chiefs).

And at the heart of the plan is a so-called "metro mayor", who will arrive without a prior referendum, have powers covering the police, planning, transport and housing, and be directly elected from 2017 onwards.

Iran's political system is structured around a president and Parliament directly elected from a group of candidates vetted by a council of jurists and Islamic experts, some by the supreme leader and others by Parliament.

Members of the legislative assembly are directly elected from territorial constituencies in the NCT.

This electoral college was abolished in 1838 and members began to be directly elected from each county and Baltimore City.

The current President of the Socialist Republic, Trương Tấn Sang, was directly elected from the provinces at the 8th Party Congress, held 1996.

Directly elected for the first time in 1979, the European Parliament has steadily gained powers from successive E.U. treaties.

It consists of ten indirectly elected members, each a directly elected councillor from one of the ten metropolitan boroughs that comprise Greater Manchester.

The majority of NLA members were directly elected; the rest were elected from closed lists to ensure proportional representation for women and various other groups.

The number of directly elected members rose from 20 in 1998 to 30 in 2004, whereas those picked by the election committee went from ten to nothing.

But while the nation's transitional period of governance has officially ended, the new government is still considered a caretaker because it was not directly elected and springs from a Constitution that needs to be ratified by public referendum.