The other is Bronislaw Komorowski, the speaker of the lower house of the Polish parliament, who has been acting president since the crash.

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"I will seek the permission of the speaker of the lower house to raise the issue, " he said.

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Other supporters of the prime minister are calling for Mr Fini, the principal cause of Mr Berlusconi's weakening grip on office, to resign as speaker of the lower house.

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His government's use of procedural devices to cut short parliamentary debate has even been criticised by his ally, Gianfranco Fini, former leader of the National Alliance and now speaker of the lower-house Chamber of Deputies.

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Laura Boldrini, the speaker of Italy's lower house of parliament, is attending privately.

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President Thein Sein, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the speaker of parliament's lower house on Sunday issued a joint declaration in the face of the deadly communal violence.

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Shortly afterwards, Labor MP Harry Jenkins was re-elected unopposed as speaker of the 150-seat lower house.

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Mr Komorowski is also speaker of the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament.

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The mission to check on the American detainees was proposed earlier this month by Vladimir Ryzhkov, deputy speaker of the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.

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