Folketing overall vote to be allocated a seat. Parties select their candidates using a closed list. Thus, voters select the party of their choice, not any specific candidate. The Danish political system is characterised by a fusion of powers, with the government being drawn from the ranks of the Folketing. Denmark is governed by a Cabinet and a Prime Minister commanding a majority in the Folketing. In order to command a majority and pass laws, the Prime Minister must form alliances with parties outside government, as well as multiple parties within a coalition Cabinet. During his first term, Lars Løkke Rasmussen,
Opening of the Canadian parliament the date may be amended by subsequent proclamations, so long as parliament eventually meets as required by the Constitution Act, 1867). These read as follows: A later proclamation gives the precise time for parliament to open: Of the governor general's deputies, only the justices of the supreme court can summon parliament (though they, nor the other deputies, may dissolve it). Canada has two types of opening for the federal parliament, differentiated by scale: Larger openings, called "bench openings", require the seating of the Senate (where the monarch, governor general, or another delegate reads the Throne Speech), which is rearranged to