After more than ten years as chairman of the british parliament has 56-year-old John Bercow shouted his characteristic ‘order, order’ for the last time.
the Whole 14,000 times it has been in the course of the last decade, when he tried to urge members of parliament to the ro.
reports the BBC.
He stepped back to the 31. October, having guided the parliament through the dramatic and agitated debates about the brexit.
Monday, the house of Commons select who should be the parliament’s new president, and so far nine candidates signed up.
And much to suggest that there will be a new line in the house. Several of formandskandidaterne have so repeatedly taken the focus away from the conservative Bercows way to control the parliament.
In the role as the neutral president, he has mixed up too much and been biased in the case of brexit, sounds the criticism from several candidates according to the newspaper the Financial Times and the BBC.
Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, estimates that several of the candidates will raise the profile of themselves on a strong rejection of Bercow.
– However, when they learn to know the job, they will perhaps find out that it’s a bad idea to be boring. You have to have a big personality to manage it more and more recalcitrant parliament, says Tim Bale for the Financial Times.
There is no clear favorite to take over the manager position as president, whose main role initially will be to lead the parliament through brexit. However, there are four of the nine, who are excelling.
the Three of them have for many years been vice-presidents under Bercow, why they can draw on their experience. It applies to Lindsay Hoyle, Eleanor Laing and Rosie Winterton.
The last of the favorites is the Labour veteran, 69-year-old Harriet Harman.
the FACTS: How to select the Uk’s new president
the house of Commons in the Uk, Monday to find its new president after John Bercow, who has been in post since June 2009.
so Far, nine candidates signed up. In order to be formally drawn up, they shall each have filed their candidacy no later than Monday morning.
This requires that you have the support of at least 12 members, including three from a different party than their own.
learn more about the selection process here:
* When all of the candidates have officially filed their candidacy, being a list of the nominees published. Thereafter the candidates will each speak in the house on Monday afternoon.
* Next, get all the members a ballot, as they are within a half an hour must have completed and handed in.
* If a candidate gets over half the votes in the first round, they are automatically selected as the new president. Otherwise, the candidates with less than five percent of the votes or the one with the fewest votes eliminated.
* the Entire stemmeprocessen will be repeated until a candidate has over half the votes, or the other candidates has withdrawn.
* finally gets it tabled a resolution, to the relevant candidate should be president. When it has gone through, is the new president in place.
Source: BBC
FACTS: the President’s role is to keep track of the european parliament
What is the role of the president of parliament in the Uk? And why has this house need so much order?
* in Short, the president, “Speaker of the House”, responsible for everything that is going on in the house of Commons. Therefore, the progresses he entered, when the waves go high, with its hallmark “order, order”.
* Traditionally, the chairman is impartial, as it is supposed, that he only has to represent parliament’s rules and conventions.
* So when he or she is elected as the president, cease him / her to represent his party.
* the role of the President dating back to 1377, when the first president was Sir Thomas Hungerford.
* Then, it was a dangerous job. No less than seven speakers asked were beheaded between 1377 and 1535.
* The modern president, which is independent of political parties, evolved through the 18. and 19. century.
Source: BBC
