REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland has elected a female-majority parliament, a landmark for gender equality in the North Atlantic island nation, in a vote that saw centrist parties make the biggest gains. After all votes were counted Sunday, female candidates held 33 seats in Iceland’s 6...
Newly elected parliament speaker Urska Klakocar Zupancic poses for photos after the first session of the new Slovenian parliament in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on May 13, 2022. A new Slovenian parliament, elected at the general election on April 24, held its first session on Friday and for the firs...
First elected parliament in 30 years convenes in Afghanistan
Portugal's parliament has returned to business after its election - with three black women now among the lawmakers, a first for the country. Helder Amaral, the first and only other black representative to have served in Portugal's parliament, was elected in 1974. The three wo...
Her father was an athletic coach and her mother was the first black woman to be elected to the Selm a City Council. Both parents held careers in the Selm a publi school system. Sewell was the first black student to have the highest grades of Selm a High Scholl.Her mother's family ...
She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1976, and in 1986, she became the first woman elected to the United States Senate from Maryland.From the death of Senator Daniel Inouye in December 2012 until 2015, Mikulski chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee. She was the first woman...
It was "a difficult decision reached in the interest of Serbia and its citizens," said Vucic, a former extremist-turned-reformist who has promised to boost gay rights as part of efforts to move closer to European Union membership. "If elected in parliament, I will run the government w...
President Janos Ader opened the new parliament for the third and last time, as his mandate will expire in a few days and he will be replaced by Katalin Novak, Hungary's first female president. Ader asked the recently elected deputies to re-elect Viktor Orban for the position of prime minis...
The first plenary session of the newly-elected European Parliament is held in Strasbourg, France, July 16, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhao Dingzhe) The first plenary session of the newly-elected European Parliament is held in Strasbourg, France, July 16, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhao Dingzhe)...
UAE parliament elects first female speaker Amal Abdullah Juma Karam Al-Qubaisi is elected as speaker of the United Arab mirates (UAE) Federal National Council, the first woman to hold such a top post in the country or any other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, in Abu Dhabi, ...