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Definition of backbench in English Turkish dictionary
- (Politika Siyaset) Kabinede (bakanlar kurulu)yer almayan veya parti içi önemli bir konumda bulunmayan parlamento üyesi
The proposal about the European fiscal discipline pact has provoked a backbench rebellion among Hollande's leftist allies in the French Parliament.
- parlamento üye
- backbencher
- kıdemsiz parlamento üyesi
- backbencher
- parlamento üyesi
- backbencher
- arkada oturan
- backbencher
- {i} yönetimde görev almayan parlementer
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Definition of backbench in English English dictionary
- Of a Member of Parliament, who sits on the backbenches, that is, who is not in the Cabinet and so has a minor role in the government
- (Politika Siyaset) In Westminster parliamentary systems, a backbencher is a Member of Parliament (MP) or a legislator who does not hold governmental office and is not a Front Bench spokesperson in the Opposition. A backbencher may be a new parliamentary member yet to receive high office, a senior figure dropped from government, or someone who for whatever reason is not chosen to sit either in the ministry or the opposition Shadow Ministry
- {i} any of the seats on which the backbenchers sit in the House of Commons (Great Britain)
- any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons
- A backbench MP is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in his or her political party. the Conservative backbench MP Sir Teddy Taylor. a backbench Member of Parliament is an ordinary British Member of Parliament who does not have an important official position
- backbencher
- A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature
- backbenches
- The rear benches in the House of Representatives where junior Members of Parliament sit, behind government ministers and their counterparts in the opposition
- backbencher
- A private or non-ministerial member of Parliament; senior ministers and leading members of the Opposition occupy the "front benches"
- backbencher
- {i} one who sits in the back benches in Parliament
- backbencher
- A Member of the Legislative Assembly who is not a cabinet minister Also known as a private member
- backbencher
- A backbencher is a Member of Parliament who is not a minister and who does not hold an official position in their political party. a senior Conservative backbencher. an ordinary British Member of Parliament who does not have an important official position
- backbencher
- Members of Parliament on the government side who sit on the backbenches and are not in cabinet, or those similarly distant from shadow cabinet posts in opposition parties
- backbencher
- A Member of Parliament or of the Legislative Assembly who does not hold a Cabinet position
- backbencher
- a British Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank and therefore sits on the backbenches
- backbencher
- a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader
- backbenchers
- plural of backbencher
- backbenches
- the rear benches in the House of Commons where junior Members of Parliament sit, behind government ministers and their counterparts in the opposition
- backbenches
- the rear benches in the lower house where junior Members of Parliament sit, behind government ministers and their counterparts in the opposition
- backbenches
- The backbenches are the seats in the British House of Commons where backbenchers sit. The Members of Parliament who sit on the backbenches are also referred to as the backbenches. This issue is creating unrest on the backbenches. the backbenches the seats in the British parliament where ordinary Members of Parliament sit