Which Country's Parliament is the Folketing?
"an effort to motivate young people to take part in the election, the Folketing published a video on YouTube featuring a muscle-bound cartoon figure called ""Voteman"" who had once failed to vote and later regretted his resulting loss of influence, so he decided to force everyone to vote in elections. He is seen in the video engaging in group sex, and dispensing violence including decapitation, described as ""grindhouse""-style by ""The Guardian"" Lars Eriksen. The video was controversial in Denmark and abroad, being criticised for being misogynist and featuring violence while being praised as humorous by others. The Folketing pulled the"
"subject to a motion of no confidence. If a vote of no confidence is successfully passed against the Prime Minister, the government must resign or call a snap election. The Folketing is the legislative branch of Denmark, and is located at Christiansborg. It consists of 179 members, of which 2 members are elected in Greenland, and 2 in the Faroe Islands. General elections is nominally held every 4 years, but the Prime Minister can at any point call a snap election. All Danish citizens over the age of 18 years who are living permanently within Denmark is eligible to vote,"
"the requirements in the Constitution. Among those, the required quorum of 90 members of the Folketing, and the rule that every proposed law requires three readings in the Folketing, before it can be passed into law. The Folketing also have the responsibility of holding the government accountable for the governance. The members of the Folketing does this by submitting questing to the ministers and convene them to explanatory hearings. In addition, the Folketing elect a number of ""State Auditors"" (), who has the responsibility to look through the public accounts, and check that everything is okay, and that the government"
"Løgting Løgting (pronounced (Faroese: ""Føroya Løgting"" or just ""Løgtingið"", Danish: ""Færøernes Lagting/Lagtinget"", both meaning ""The løgting of the Faroes"") is the unicameral parliament of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous country within the Danish Realm. The name literally means """"Law Thing""""—that is, a law assembly—and derives from Old Norse ""lǫgþing"", which was a name given to ancient assemblies. A ""ting"" or ""þing"" has existed on the Faroe Islands for over a millennium and the Løgting was the highest authority on the islands in the Viking era. From 1274 to 1816 it functioned primarily as a judicial body, whereas the modern Løgting"
"power with the reigning monarch. In practice, however, the monarch's role is limited to signing laws passed by the legislature; this must be done within 30 days of adoption. The Folketing consists of 179 representatives; including 2 from Greenland and a further 2 from the Faroe Islands. General elections must be held every four years, but it is within the powers of the Prime Minister to ask the monarch to call for an election before the term has elapsed. On a vote of no confidence, the Folketing may force a single Minister or the entire government to resign. Members are"
"is also responsible for adopting the state's budgets, approving the state's accounts, appointing and exercising control of the Government, and taking part in international co-operation. Bills may be initiated by the Government or by members of parliament. All bills passed must be presented before the Council of State to receive Royal Assent within thirty days in order to become law. Denmark is a representative democracy with universal suffrage. Membership of the Folketing is based on proportional representation of political parties, with a 2% electoral threshold. Danes elect 175 members to the Folketing, with Greenland and the Faroe Islands electing an"
"Folketing. It is their job to check if it follows the financial laws. Once they have made their statement, the Folketing vote for its approval. § 48 The Folketing make their own rules of procedure. § 49 The meetings are open to the public, however can be closed for the public. This has not been done since 1924. § 50 The quorum for the Folketing is 90 members (out of 179) § 51 The Folketing can establish commissions to investigate important cases. The consists of members of the Folketing, and can demand information from citizens and public agencies. § 52"
"reputed to be the oldest working parliament in the world. In Denmark, Iceland and Sweden elections are held at least once every four years. Finland, Åland and Norway have fixed four-year election periods. Elections in the Faroe Islands and Greenland follow the Danish system of elections. The Danish Folketing has 179 seats, including two seats each for the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The Finnish Eduskunta has 200 seats, including one seat for Åland. The Icelandic Althing has 63 seats, the Norwegian Storting 169 seats and the Swedish Riksdag 349 seats. The Faroese Løgting has 32 seats, Greenland's Inatsisartut 31 seats"
"material, which is thus at the very heart of the Faroese identity and sense of history right from the landnam period to the present time. Løgting Løgting (pronounced (Faroese: ""Føroya Løgting"" or just ""Løgtingið"", Danish: ""Færøernes Lagting/Lagtinget"", both meaning ""The løgting of the Faroes"") is the unicameral parliament of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous country within the Danish Realm. The name literally means """"Law Thing""""—that is, a law assembly—and derives from Old Norse ""lǫgþing"", which was a name given to ancient assemblies. A ""ting"" or ""þing"" has existed on the Faroe Islands for over a millennium and the Løgting was"
"democratically elected by proportional representation: 135 by the D'Hondt method and 40 by the Sainte-Laguë method. The Danish political system has traditionally generated coalitions. Most post-war governments have been minority coalitions ruling with the support of non-government parties. The most recent general election took place on 18 June 2015 and the Folketing reconvened on 6 October. The first sitting of the house was attended by Queen Margrethe II. From 1849 to 1953 the ""Folketing"" was one of the two houses in the bicameral parliament known as the ""Rigsdag""; the other house was known as ""Landstinget"". Since both houses, in principle,"
"foreign policy are outside the scope of Home Rule. The Danish Folketing has legislative power in all areas except those which have been taken over by the Løgting. The Faroese have two seats in the Danish Folketing. Within the framework of Home Rule the Løgting provides for constitutional affairs and for the order of business. According to the Faroese Home Rule Act the organization of internal affairs is solely within the province of the Faroese Parliament. An act concerning this matter was passed on 26 July 1994. According to section No. 1. of this act the division of legal power"
"speak in the Folketing, but cannot vote (unless they are also members of the Folketing). § 41 Every member of the Folketing can suggest laws or decisions. All laws needs to be brought up in 3 times, before they can be approved. 2/5 of the Folketing can required that there is at least 12 working days between second and third session. Exceptions are laws about budgets, loans, taxes, expropriation, citizenship, and laws that are urgent to get passed. At the end of a business year, all pending laws or decisions is dropped. § 42 This paragraph concerns referendums, and is"
"the Folketing. The SF has always been represented in the European Parliament. It gained one seat in 1979, 1984 (one additional seat on 1 January 1985), 1989 and 2004. Since 2004, the elected candidate was Margrete Auken. Without the approval of the party's board, she joined The Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group, instead of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left in 2004. Since then, the party has come around to her point of view, and at the national congress in 2008, it was decided that future SF MEPs will stay in the Greens–EFA group in the European Parliament, but SF"
"and suspended operations (although the resignation was never accepted by King Christian X).—all day-to-day business had been handed over to the Permanent Secretaries, each effectively running his own ministry. The Germans administered the rest of the country, and the Danish Rigsdag did not convene for the remainder of the occupation until a new one was formed following the liberation on 5 May 1945. The Folketing is composed of 179 seats, of which two are reserved for the Faroe Islands and two for Greenland. The remaining 175 seats are taken up by MPs from elected in Denmark. All 179 seats are"
"of the Czech Parliament allowing the user to test her or his own preferences against the MPs. The Parliament website (Folketinget) has records of votes, speeches, laws, and written questions in plain form. Hvem Stemmer Hvad has elaborate parliament voting statistics and tracks parliamentary questions and media mentions of politicians. The site offers access to its data through an API. The name translates to ""Who Votes What"". Folkevalg lets users debate and vote on concrete parliamentary issues. The site is financially supported by the EU. Folkets Ting is a volunteer-run website with the same data that also offers rss feeds"
"Next Danish general election General elections will be held in the Kingdom of Denmark after either the dissolution or expiry of the current Parliament, and must be held on or before 17 June 2019. All 179 members of the Folketing will be elected. 175 members will be elected in Denmark proper, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. At the 2015 general election, the parties of the ""Blue bloc"" secured a very narrow majority in the Folketinget, 90 seats versus 89 for the parties of the centre-left ""Red bloc"". Ten days later, a minority government was formed by"
"2015 Danish general election General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 18 June 2015 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing. 175 members were elected in the Denmark proper, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. Although the ruling Social Democrats remained the largest party in the Folketing and increased the number of seats they held, the opposition Venstre party was able to form a minority government headed by Lars Løkke Rasmussen with the support of the Danish People's Party, the Liberal Alliance and the Conservative People's Party. Following the 2011 general election, a"
"and lets users comment on content. ""Folkets Ting"" means ""Peoples Parliament"" and is a pun on ""Folketinget"". www.votewatch.eu has collected and displays full records of the activities of the Members of the European Parliament starting with 2004. VoteWatch.eu is based on the expertise of academics from London School of Economics and Universite Libre de Bruxelles. The website displays full records of voting, attendance and other activities (parliamentary questions, speeches, reports etc.) of MEPs from all member states. Furthermore, it shows a set of statistics that provide detailed information on how the coalitions are forming between the various European Political Groups."
"tings that governed the historical Landskap provinces, that were superseded by the counties in the 17th century. The name ""ting"" is also found in the names of the first level instances of the Swedish and Finnish court system, which are called tingsrätt (), the Court of the Thing. Similarly, prior to 1953, the Danish legislature was known as Rigsdagen, which comprised the two houses of the Folketing ""People's Thing"" and Landsting ""Land Thing"". The latter, which was reserved for people of means, was abolished by the constitution of 1953. The Norwegian parliament, the ""Storting"", has historically been divided into two"
"eligible to vote in parliamentary elections and long-time residents may vote in local elections. The last elections were the Danish local elections for all municipal councils and regional councils held on 21 November 2017. The Kingdom of Denmark (including the Faroe Islands and Greenland) elects a unicameral parliament, the Folketing, on a national level. Of the 179 members of parliament, the Faroe Islands and Greenland elect two members each, 135 are elected from ten multi-member constituencies on a party list PR system using the d'Hondt method and the remaining 40 seats are allocated to ensure proportionality at a national level."
"established in 1852 is a parliamentary assembly, which gained legislative power when home rule was introduced in 1948. The Manx Tynwald and the Icelandic Alþing are the two other modern parliaments with ties back to the old Norse assemblies of Europe. Today, the Faroe Islands compromise one constituency, and the number of MPs is fixed at 33. The first election with this new system was held on 19 January 2008, after the Election law was changed in late 2007, prior to which the membership of the Løgting varied from 27 to 32. The 7 constituencies had 27 seats and up"
"executive and the national parliament (). Members of the judiciary are nominated by the executive (conventionally by recommendation of the judiciary itself), formally appointed by the monarch and employed until retirement. Denmark has a multi-party system, with two strong parties, and four or five other significant parties. No single party has held an absolute majority in the Folketing since the beginning of the 20th century. Since only four post-war coalition governments have enjoyed a majority, government bills rarely become law without negotiations and compromise with both supporting and opposition parties. Hence the Folketing tends to be more powerful than legislatures"
"20 to 200 seats, but almost always significantly fewer than the lower house. In the United Kingdom however, the lower house (the House of Commons) has 650 members, but the upper house (the House of Lords) currently has slightly more members than the lower house, and at one time (before the exclusion of most of the hereditary peers) had considerably more. Until 1953, the Rigsdag in Denmark was similarly divided into the ""Folketing"" and ""Landsting"", but has since become a unicameral legislature. The same goes with Sweden and its ""Riksdag"" until 1971. The Norwegian parliament (""Storting"") was officially divided in"
"consequence is that, unlike in most other parliamentary systems, a Danish government can never be sure its legislative agenda will pass, and it must assemble a majority for each individual piece of legislation. The 179 members of the folketing are directly elected to four-year terms, subject to calls for early elections. All Danish citizens 18 years or older may vote in legislative elections, which are conducted by secret ballot. Folketing seats are allocated among the various parties using the D'Hondt method of party list proportional representation. A party or electoral alliance must pass the election threshold of 2% of the"
"Swedish Assembly of Finland The Swedish Assembly of Finland (, , although often referred to as ""Folktinget"" even in Finnish) is an official consultative parliament representing the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland. Elections are held every four years, and candidates are nominated by the political parties which are either bilingual or Swedish-speaking. The assembly has 75 seats, where 70 are filled on the basis of municipal election results, and five are appointed by the Parliament of Åland (). The assembly is a forum for political discussion on issues concerning Swedish speakers, and it also functions as an interest group for Swedish-speaking"
"1915 Danish Folketing election The Danish Folketing election of 1915 was held on 7 May 1915. As required to change the Constitution, the government called for the dissolution of both the Folketing and the Landsting in order for the new Rigsdag to be able to introduce the new constitution. However, as this was during World War I, no campaigning took place, and the election was settled without voting in 104 of 114 constituencies. Therefore, it is impossible to give numbers for the actual support the respective parties received from the voters. The corresponding Landsting election was held on 21 May."
"1915 Danish Folketing election The Danish Folketing election of 1915 was held on 7 May 1915. As required to change the Constitution, the government called for the dissolution of both the Folketing and the Landsting in order for the new Rigsdag to be able to introduce the new constitution. However, as this was during World War I, no campaigning took place, and the election was settled without voting in 104 of 114 constituencies. Therefore, it is impossible to give numbers for the actual support the respective parties received from the voters. The corresponding Landsting election was held on 21 May."
"was elected by common vote, although indirectly and with a higher age limit than for the Folketing. During the next decades, law-making mainly took place in the Folketing and the Landsting came to be regarded as a superfluous rubber stamp. In 1953, a revised constitution was adopted by popular vote. Among the changes was the elimination of the Landsting and the introduction of a unicameral parliament, known only as the Folketing. Christiansborg Palace (also known by its nickname ""Borgen"", Danish for ""the castle"") has been the domicile of parliament since 1849. The palace is located in the heart of Copenhagen."
"new Folketing elected in 2007 on 24 February 2009 with two abstentions (of the left-wing Enhedslisten). It was then submitted to a referendum. No changes would be made to the constitution and §2 would continue to refer to the Act of Succession of 1953 even though that reference would become invalid. Jens Peter Christensen, then Professor of administrative law at the University of Aarhus and now a member of the Danish Supreme Court, has described this as ""a mess"" and as an ""overly clever"" way for then-Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to signal that the government will oppose any other"
"to 5 supplementary seats. That Election Act came into force in 1978, and the eight general elections between 1978 and 2004 all resulted in 32 members. The Løgting is elected for a period of four years. Election of the Løgting can take place before the end of an election period if the Løgting agrees on dissolving itself. The Løgmaður (Prime Minister) issues a proclamation of the forthcoming election and appoints the day of election, which must take place, at the earliest, six weeks after the proclamation. The Faroese ting or assembly was originally a so-called ""alþing"", with both legislative and"
"can be called by the prime minister. § 33 The Folketing decides whether its members are ""worthy"" as per § 30. § 34 It is high treason to threaten or undermine the security or freedom of the Folketing. § 35 The newly elected Folketing meets within 12 working days of the elections. First they decide if their members are ""worthy"" (see § 33), then they elect a chairman and vice chairmen for the current business year. § 36 Each business year start the first Tuesday in October, and last until the first Tuesday in October next year. At the first"
"II legal status as a civilian. The Prime Minister, by convention, chooses to dissolve the Folketing and call a new election (although this is formally undertaken by the Monarch), which the Prime Minister is obligated to do within four years of the previous election. In spite of this, the Prime Minister has no say with respect to Denmark's autonomous regions, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, while the Folketing on the other hand does, as all laws passed by the Faroese and Greenlandic parliaments must be ratified by the Folketing. There exist checks on the Prime Minister's power; the Folketing may"
"Storting The Storting ( , ""the great ""thing"""" or ""the great assembly"") is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members, and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional representation in nineteen plurinominal constituencies. A member of the Storting is known in Norwegian as a ""stortingsrepresentant"", literally ""Storting representative"". The assembly is led by a president and, since 2009, five vice presidents: the presidium. The members are allocated to twelve standing committees, as well as four procedural committees. Three ombudsmen are directly"