Speaker of the Flemish Parliament
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The Speaker of the Flemish Parliament is the speaker
Speaker (politics)
The term speaker is a title often given to the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the...

 of the Flemish Parliament
Flemish Parliament
The Flemish Parliament constitutes the legislative power in Flanders, for matters which fall within the competence of Flanders, both as a geographic region and a cultural community of Belgium The Flemish Parliament (Dutch: , and formerly called Flemish Council or Vlaamse Raad) constitutes the...

. The Speaker is elected at the beginning of each parliamentary year, on the fourth Monday in September. The Speaker chairs the plenary sessions of the Flemish Parliament and acts as its official representative. He or she determines whether a certain initiative is admissible and thus can be put to parliament at all. The Flemish Ministers take the oath before the Speaker of the Flemish Parliament.
Quotations

Excellent plan! Devious minds are attracted to Python, like mimes to unappreciative crowds.

Tim Peters, 13 Nov 1998

Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.

Larry Wall (author of Perl), May 12 2004

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

Guido van Rossum, 13 Aug 1996

And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide?

Ivan Van Laningham, June 2005, on comp. lang. python

Python is more concerned with making it easy to write good programs than difficult to write bad ones.

Steve Holden, June 2005, on comp.lang.python

 
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