The next election to the House of Councillors (the upper house) is due in mid-2010.
下一届参议院（上议院）的选举定于2010年中期。
Mrs Merkel's coalition might lose control of the state legislature and Germany's upper house.
默克尔夫人的联盟可能失去对州议会和德国上议院的控制。
Moreover, in 2010 voters will return to the ballot box for the Diet’s less powerful upper house.
另外，2010年将进行权力稍小的国会上议院的选举。
The defeat means that Mrs Merkel will also lose her majority in the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house.
这次失败意味着默克尔将在德国联邦上院失去多数地位。
Moreover, in 2010 voters will return to the ballot box for the Diet's less powerful upper house.
而且，2010年，选民将重新选举不够强势的上议院。
Months ago, gaining a majority in the upper house to add to its lower-house one was considered a safe bet.
数月之前，通过取得上议院主要席位来增加下议院席位被视为一种保守的赌注。
The election will leave the Greens with the balance of power in the Senate, the upper house, from mid-2011.
本次选举将使绿党从2011年中期开始在参院和上院的权力制衡体系中占有一席之地。
Countries as diverse as Australia and Switzerland function smoothly enough with an elected upper house.
在澳大利亚和瑞士这样的多元化国家，参院由选举产生，运转良好。
This means postponing scheduled elections for half the seats in the Diet's upper house by a week, to July 29th.
这意味着国会上院半数席位选举将被推迟一周，于7月29号举行。
Kazakhstan has a bicameral Parliament, comprised of the lower house (the Mazhilis) and upper house (the Senate).
哈萨克斯坦实行双议会制，由下议院（the Mazhilis）和上议院（参议院）构成。
In last summer's election for the upper house, its 500,000-odd voters sent one representative to the Diet (parliament).
在去年夏天的上议院选举中，50多万选民只派送了一名代表前往议会。
In last summer's election for the upper house, its 500, 000-odd voters sent one representative to the Diet (parliament).
在去年夏天的上议院选举中，50多万选民只派送了一名代表前往议会。
In Australia the 507, 600 people of Tasmania have the same weight in the upper house as the 7m who live in New South Wales.
在澳大利亚，塔斯马尼亚的507,600人在上院拥有和新南威尔士7百万人相同的权重。
The reason is the loss by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in summer elections of the upper house of the Diet (parliament).
原因就是自民党在上议院夏季选举中失利。
Whoever wins the lower house at the next general election, due by 2013, is unlikely to hold a majority in the upper house.
在2013年下轮大选中，无论哪一方在众议院获胜，都不可能在参议院中占多数席位。
To placate them, Mr Turnbull committed his coalition to voting against the bill when it came before the upper house, on August 13th.
为了安抚反对者，特恩布尔保证将在法案8月13日提交到上议院时将带领联盟投反对票。
The French parliament's upper house yesterday backed a proposal to raise the minimum age at which women may marry from 15 to 18.
法国国会参议院日前通过了一项有关提高该国女性法定婚龄的提案。该提案认为，女性法定婚龄应由目前的15岁提高到18岁。
Politicians in Japan's lower house approved the bill in the early hours of Thursday. It had already been passed in the upper house.
经上议院批准后，日本下议院在上周四早些时候也通过了赌场合法化法案。
The budget, already approved by the Swiss upper house of parliament, was passed by the lower chamber on Tuesday, news agencies reported.
新闻社报道，这个预算已经在瑞士议会上院获得批准，周二会移交至下议院。
With a tally of 11 out of 242 seats in the upper house and five out of 480 in the lower house, it is hardly a direct threat to the two main parties.
“众人之党”在上议院242个位置中拥有11个，下议院480个中拥有5个，这样的比例真的很难对现存的两个主要党派造成直接威胁。
Japan's new prime minister, Naoto Kan, has pushed a debate about raising the consumption tax to the top of the campaign for the upper house of parliament.
日本的新任首相菅直人推动了在上议院竞选活动中关于提高消费税率的讨论。
With others hoping to be sent to the House of Lords, there is pressure to ditch a coalition pledge to Lib Dems to create a mostly elected upper house.
由于另一些人希望可以因此进入上议院，迫于压力他可能会违背诺言，不再与自民党一起推行民选上议院制度。
The elections due on July 29th are for half of the 242 seats in the upper house of the Diet (parliament), for which the campaign officially began this week.
以竞选242个国会上院席位中的半数为目的的大选将于7月29号举行，为此，选举办公室于本周开始投入运作。
The defeat in NRW also strips Mrs Merkel's government of its majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the legislature, which represents the states.
北威州选举失利同时剥夺了默克尔联邦参议院多数席位的优势，而联邦参议院的议员是各州的代表，是最高的立法机构。
The defeat in NRW also strips Mrs Merkel's government of its majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the legislature, which represents the states.
北威州选举失利同时剥夺了默克尔联邦参议院多数席位的优势，而联邦参议院的议员是各州的代表，是最高的立法机构。
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