If you are speaking of the U.S. House of Representatives, we do not have prime ministers. We have representatives (congressmen), apportioned by state population, and senators, two per state regardless of state population. That is the legislative branch of U.S. government.
The executive branch has the president, vice president, Cabinet, and their staffs. No prime minister.
And the judicial branch has the entire court system from the Supreme Court on down.
That's the three branches of the U.S. government. No prime minister.
They must hold 50% of the seats in the house of reps, plus 1.
Australia - House of Representitives and the Senate. House of Reps has the Prime Minister, the Party that wins the most votes in the House of Reps wins the election. Senate is made up of more minor parties (usually) and has the power to block legislation coming from the House of Reps.
Julia Gillard has occupied the chair in the house of reps. She is currently Australia's Prime Minister
The Prime minister of Australia is the head of the lower house in the Australian Parliament. At a maximum of every 3 Years Australians vote for their representatives in Parliament. Most of them will vote for a representative from either the labour Liberal or national parties. Though there are also the the odd independent or small party reps that get voted in. After the election the party that has the largest number of seats won as a result of the election is considered the government and they vote among each other to decide who is their leader. This person becomes the Prime minister.
By being voted into a parliamentary seat and then getting the backing of enough lower house reps to make you their leader. the actual desicion of who is to be Prime Minister is Normaly made by the party that controls the lower house.
The Lower House of the Parliament of Canada is styled the House of Commons.The House of Commons does not directly select which parties form government or opposition. The Governor General of Canada appoints the person who is best able to command the support of a majority of members of the House of Commons to become the prime minister and to form a Government. The largest party, other than the Government, becomes Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Though the Governor General's choice for prime minister is normally clear, the viceroy/vicereine has a degree of personal discretion when no party has received a clear majority of seats.
The House Of Reps
Yes, there is a lower house (House of Representatives) and an upper house (Senate). Similar to the US, members of the House of Reps represent local districts (called 'electorates') and members of the Senate represent the states. Unlike in the US, the head of the executive government (in Australia's case the prime minister) and the ministers all have seats in the parliament (ie Congress).
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the mace is in the house of reps and when the government go to the senate they take it with them
If they are from the same political party, then the French President has more power (he is the only to have the power in the government). If they are not, the Prime Minister leads the government, not the President. But it happened only once since 1954.
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