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Encyclopedia > Chamber of Deputies of Argentina
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President 2003 Orginally from the CIA World Factbook. ... Politics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. ... Argentina is a country in southern South America, situated between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east. ... Government After years of post-World War II instability, Argentina is today a fully functioning democracy. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections. ... Politics of Argentina Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Argentina ... Argentina held a presidential election on Sunday, April 27, 2003. ...

The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the National Congress, Argentina's parliament. It has 257 seats and one-half of the members are elected every two years to serve four-year terms by the people of each district (23 provinces and the Federal Capital) using proportional representation, D'Hondt formula with a 3% of the district registered voters threshold, and the following distribution: The National Congress ( Spanish: Congreso de la Nación Argentina) is the legislative branch of the government of Argentina. ... Argentina is a country in southern South America, situated between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east. ... Argentina consists of 23 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia), and 1 federal district (distrito federal), marked by a *: Categories: Geography of Argentina | Lists of subnational entities ... The dHondt method is a method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. ...

  • Buenos Aires: 70 deputies
  • Capital Federal: 25 deputies
  • Catamarca: 5 deputies
  • Chaco: 7 deputies
  • Chubut: 5 deputies
  • Córdoba: 18 deputies
  • Corrientes: 7 deputies
  • Entre Ríos: 9 deputies
  • Formosa: 5 deputies
  • Jujuy: 6 deputies
  • La Pampa: 5 deputies
  • La Rioja: 5 deputies
  • Mendoza: 10 deputies
  • Misiones: 7 deputies
  • Neuquén: 5 deputies
  • Río Negro: 5 deputies
  • Salta: 7 deputies
  • San Juan: 6 deputies
  • San Luis: 5 deputies
  • Santa Cruz: 5 deputies
  • Santa Fe: 19 deputies
  • Santiago del Estero: 7 deputies
  • Tucumán: 9 deputies
  • Tierra del Fuego: 5 deputies

This Chamber holds exclusive rights to create taxes, to draft troops, and to accuse the president, the ministers and the members of the Supreme Court before the Senate. The Argentine Senate is the upper house of parliament in Argentina. ...

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Chamber of Deputies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (348 words)
Chamber of Deputies is the name given to a legislative body, be it the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or the name of a unicameral legislature.
Historically, the "Chamber of Deputies" was the lower house of parliament in the French Third Republic; the name is still informally used for the National Assembly under the nation's current Fifth Republic.
The term "Chamber of Deputies" is not widely used by English-speaking countries, the more popular equivalent being House of Representatives, although it was used as the name of the lower house of parliament in Burma, a former British colony.
National Congress of Bolivia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (521 words)
The National Congress is bicameral, consisting of a lower house (the Chamber of Deputies or Cámara de Diputados) and an upper house (the Senate, or Cámara de Senadores).
The Chamber of Deputies comprises 130 seats: 68 deputies are directly elected to represent single-member electoral districts, and an additional 62 are elected by proportional representation from party lists on a national basis.
Deputies also serve five-year terms, and must be aged at least 25 on the day of the election.
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