Sentence examples for session to elect from inspiring English sources

The Parliament speaker moved a parliamentary session to elect a president to Jan . 12 fromSaturday.

"The only actual remaining solution is for all deputies to go to Friday's session to elect a president," he said.

The president, Émile Lahoud, must step down on Friday, and a Parliament session to elect a successor is scheduled for Wednesday.

This raises the possibility that the Senate would have to pause from its duties during the session to elect Mr. Perry's successor.

Parliament will still convene on that date, but the session to elect a successor for President Emile Lahoud, who must step down on Nov. 24, will probably center on discussions between the ruling majority and the Hezbollah-led opposition.

Congress would meet in a joint session to elect a President, and would also appoint members of the cabinet.

And George W. Bush and his brother Jeb were preparing to have the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature convene a special session to simply elect their own pro-Bush slate of presidential electors that would overrule any court-mandated vote recount.

He called for a swift session of Parliament to elect Mr. Maliki and pledged to continue talks to include other factions, especially Mr. Allawi's, which includes almost all of the newly elected Sunni lawmakers.

According to the rules, a plenary session of parliament (needed to elect chairmen) requires the attendance of both two-thirds of all members and a majority of the factions.The coalition is in blocking mood for two reasons.

Its two houses, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, had the right to elect, in a joint session, the president of the republic for a term of seven years.

According to Iraq's constitution, the Council of Representatives was required to elect a new speaker during its opening session.