The Speaker
A speaker is elected among the Members. The speaker will chair the meetings of the Majlis, is responsible for maintaining order in the chamber and has to supervise the administrative affairs of the Majlis. The speaker is next in line, to be the acting president in case of a vacancy in the president’s position, until a new council to govern the state is elected. Till date eleven individuals have filled the speakers post in the Majlis.
A deputy speaker is also chosen to assist the speaker of the Majlis, and to overtake and run the Majlis, when the Speaker is absent or is not fit to fulfill the responsibilities of the Speaker.
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“English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
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—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)