All 18 Members of Parliament from Al Wefaq, the only opposition political party represented in Parliament, submitted their resignations.
This kind of dramatic action cannot absolve you of your all-around incompetence and corruption," said Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, a spokesperson of the B.J.P. On Thursday, Sushma Swaraj, a senior B.J.P. leader and the leader of opposition in the lower house of the parliament, submitted a memorandum opposing the ordinance to the President of India.
All 18 MPs from Al Wefaq, the only opposition political party represented in parliament, submitted their resignations.
In the coming days, Parliament will submit a list of names from which the king has pledged to chose the prime minister.
"Upon the formation of the new parliament, Senator McGrath submitted a new register of interests, which, by mistake, did not include his directorship of the Sir Paul Hasluck Foundation".
The country's reformist president rejected talks with the United States and called on Parliament to submit to policies decided by the country's supreme religious leader.
The office of the president is unique in that it has the authority to bypass the parliament by submitting referenda directly to the people and even to dissolve the parliament altogether.
Also on Wednesday, Iraq's Commission of Integrity, which monitors government corruption, said only 34 members of Iraq's 275-member Parliament had submitted their mandatory financial disclosure forms.
When he was asked last year to contribute to a cookbook of favorite recipes by members of parliament, he submitted a receipt for "farcidure grillée du pays d'Egletons," a potato-based peasant dish that looks like a latke crossed with a Spanish omelet.
The BBC will lay its annual report and accounts before the Scottish Parliament and submit reports to, and appear before, committees of the Scottish Parliament in relation to matters relating to Scotland in the same way as it does in the UK Parliament.
