Mr Maduro subsequently became deputy speaker and later speaker of the national assembly until 2006.
Marek Jurek, parliamentary speaker and deputy chairman of Law and Justice, says that changing this is necessary to create the conditions for making Poland a more democratic country.
Artur Chilingarov, an adventurer and deputy speaker of Russia's parliament, led two Russian mini-submarines to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean beneath the North Pole, where he collected gravel and planted the Russian flag.
The first woman to occupy the Speaker's chair was Betty Harvie Anderson (Conservative), appointed deputy chairman of the Ways and Means committee (a deputy speaker) in July 1970, taking the chair later that day during the Queen's Speech debate when she was addressed as 'Mr Deputy Speaker'.
Iraq's deputy parliament speaker and a spokesman for al-Sadr's movement praised the agreement Monday during a joint news conference in Baghdad.
Finally, one for the insiders - the Procedure Committee (at 3.05pm) hears from former Deputy Speaker Sir Alan Haselhurst and other MPs about ways to improve the private members' bill system.
Ms Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director-General for the Natural Sciences, will be the speaker of the conference, and Mr Darge Wole, Deputy Permanente Delegate of Ethiopia to UNESCO, will be the moderator.
In the meantime, I gather, Sinn Fein and the DUP will try to appoint Mr Molloy as principal deputy speaker - a new rank at Stormont.
Similarly in Tunisia, Deputy Speaker Mehrezia Labidi pledged to lead the effort for women's rights and secular law in her nation.
Deputy House of Commons Speaker Nigel Evans should not resign after being arrested over rape and sexual assault allegations, says fellow Tory MP Andrew Mitchell.
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