Word: overriden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chosen for five-year terms by the village elders will be 150 male members of a National Assembly and six women picked by newly established provincial assemblies in East and West Pakistan. The President must approve all legislation, and his veto can be overriden by only a two-thirds vote; the budget must be accepted or rejected as a single pack age with no debate on individual allocations. The President can dissolve the Assembly, but if he does so, he must stand for re-election within 120 days. To placate sensitive East Pakistan-divided from the western section...