national assembly

NOUN

federal assembly

Synonyms

WEAK

assembly chamber of deputies congress diet general assembly house of assembly legislative assembly parliament soviet

Example Sentences

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Pérez-Oliva is deputy prime minister and minister of foreign trade and investment and was elected in December to Cuba’s National Assembly, a prerequisite for the presidency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Perez-Oliva was also elected to the National Assembly -- a prerequisite to becoming president.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

That was the year Mitterrand became president and Jospin first entered the National Assembly.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Rodríguez said her ruling socialist party is expected to present in the National Assembly in the coming days a new set of mining regulations to lure miners to extract strategic minerals and conventional metals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

And in August, the newly defined National Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson