Each house may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of
two-thirds, expel a Member.
If you march thirty LI with the same object,
two-thirds of your army will arrive.
Balloons, then, are usually only
two-thirds filled.
He ran to his room overhead and brought down a bottle which was
two-thirds full.
The saga of the
two-thirds gender rules in the courts of Kenya is not yet over.
During Question Time at the Dewan Rakyat today, Kubang Kerian MP Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (PAS) and Pontian MP Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan (BN) said they would provide the government the
two-thirds majority it needs to make the constitutional amendment.
figure By MARY NJERI KINYANJUI As I walked towards the University Health Clinic, I was reflecting on the reasons why the
two-thirds gender rule should generate so much acrimony.My train of thought was disrupted by a female student who was squatting along the path, tying her male colleague's shoe laces.
According to article 239 (1) 'A Bill to amend the Constitution may originate in either House and, when the Bill has been passed by the votes of not less than
two-thirds of the total membership of the House, it shall be transmitted to the other House.
A previous attempt to amend the Constitution had failed, owing to lack of a
two-thirds clear majority in the previously dissolved parliament in 2017.
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However, the 141-84 vote in favor of the proposal came up just shy of the
two-thirds (66.7%) majority required to pass a bylaw amendment.
Dissanayake said approval of
two-thirds majority in parliament would be required if that is to be changed under the Samurdhi Authority of Sri Lanka Act.