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Main article: List of the first women holders of political offices

This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by the countries in Asia and by dates of appointment. Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office.

Afghanistan

Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Azerbaijan

Soviet Socialist Republic

Republic

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Bhutan

Cambodia

China

Early Imperial China

Mid-Imperial China

Republic of China (1912–1949)

People's Republic of China

National level

Individual ministries or offices

Republic of China (Taiwan)

East Timor

Hong Kong

British Hong Kong

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

India

British Raj

Dominion and Republic of India

National level

Individual ministries

Regions

Andhra Pradesh

Assam

Bihar

Delhi

Goa

Gujarat

Himachal Pradesh

Karnataka

Kerala

Madhya Pradesh

Maharashtra

Odisha

Punjab

Rajasthan

Tamil Nadu

Uttarakhand

Uttar Pradesh

West Bengal

Indonesia

Ancient Indonesia

Dutch East Indies

East Indonesia

Republic of Indonesia

National level

Individual ministries

Iran

Sasanian Empire

Imperial State

Islamic Republic

Iraq

Israel

Japan

National level

Regional and individual ministries

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic

Kyrgyzstan

Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic

Kyrgyz Republic

• President – Roza Otunbayeva – 2010
• Supreme Court Member – Kadicha Apaitova – 1991
• Chairperson of Constitutional Court – Cholpon Baekova – 1993
• Chairperson of Supreme Court – Janyl Alieva – 2008
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Suspended unicameral legislature of Kuwait

The National Assembly (Arabic: مجلس الأمة) is the unicamerallegislature of Kuwait. The National Assembly met in Kuwait City. The National Assembly is made up of 50 elected members and 16 directly appointed government ministers (ex officio members).

The assembly was frequently dissolved by the Emir of Kuwait. From 2006 to 2024, the assembly was dissolved 13 times. The assembly has been suspended since 10 May 2024 for a four-year constitutional re-evaluation due to frequent inaction, corruption, bribery, vote purchasing and political deadlock.

Overview

The National Assembly is the legislature in Kuwait, established in 1963. Its predecessor, the 1938 National Assembly, was formally dissolved in 1939 after "one member, Sulaiman al-Adasani, in possession of a letter, signed by other Assembly members, addressed to Iraq's King Ghazi, requesting Kuwait's immediate incorporation into Iraq." This demand came after the merchant members of the Assembly attempted to extract oil money from Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, a suggestion refused by him and upon which he instigated a crackdown which arrested the Assembly members in 1939.

The National Assembly normally consists of 65 members; this total includes 50 elected deputies as well as 15 cabinet members directly appointed by the Emir. Fifty deputies are elected by one non-transferable vote to serve four-year terms. Members of the cabinet also sit in the parliament as deputies. The constitution limits the size of the cabinet to 16. The cabinet ministers have the same rights as the elected MPs, with the following two exceptions: they do not participate in the work of committees, and they cannot vote when an interpolation leads to a no-confidence vote against one of the cabinet members. As per Article 107 of the Kuwait constitution, the National Assembly can be dissolved by the

Today is Friday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2015. There are 202 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On June 12, 1965, the British government announced that The Beatles would each be made an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace later in the year; the selection sparked criticism, with some MBEs returning their medals in protest.

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In 1776, Virginia's colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.

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In 1920, the Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Warren G. Harding for president on the tenth ballot; Calvin Coolidge was nominated for vice president.

In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge was nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Republican national convention in Cleveland. (Coolidge had become president in 1923 upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding.)

In 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.

In 1942, Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis.

In 1956, the Flag of the United States Army was officially adopted under an executive order signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.) One of Hollywood's most notoriously expensive productions, "Cleopatra," starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison, opened in New York.

In 1964, South African black nationalist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison along with seven other people, including Walter Sisulu, for committing sabotage against the apartheid regime (all were