The new parliament has 140 elected seats and 70 appointed by the president.

Perhaps the worst single aspect of America's broken democracy is the fact that it seems virtually impossible to fix, since our system rests on a constitution written 230-odd years ago that is insanely ...

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has expressed grave concern over Tuesday’s sitting of the House of ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has dismissed claims by the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) that parliamentary democracy is under threat, describing the claims as ...

Seven years after the pro-democracy Hirak protests, Algeria is electing a new parliament. Could the vote spark new political ...

Armenia’s parliamentary elections were held on June 7 under widespread, systematic and well-documented fraudulent conditions. These elections were not merely held to determine the representatives of ...

The 13th parliament yesterday held its inaugural sitting amid a heated atmosphere, as opposition MPs staged a walkout in protest against President Mohammed Shahabuddin speaking in the House. Formed ...

The ongoing debate in South Asia is part of a larger conversation about what type of democratic governance is best. With the notable exception of China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and a handful of ...

(Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan elected a parliamentary speaker on Friday in a bid to end upheaval and violence and move the country towards a parliamentary democracy, the first in ex-Soviet Central Asia. Here ...

Parliamentary inquiry recommends new laws to police behaviour at polling booths ...