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    <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Top-level tag IMHO
        would be office=government, then additional tag would be
        government=legislature.</font></p>
    <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The three branches of
        government are the executive, the legislative, and the judicial
        branches.</font><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/4/2018 5:08 AM, Graeme
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          <div dir="ltr">On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 at 07:05, Warin <<a
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                    <div>It's going to take some careful thought, and
                      many postings here, to come up with a scheme<br>
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                    <div>with sensible terminology that works for all
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              To me these are all 'politicians' or at least serve a
              political role when acting (I hope) on our behalf to
              represent 'us'. <br>
              Don't think every situation would be happy with
              'parliamentarians'. <br>
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              I am not going to try and distinguish between the various
              levels - upper and lower houses, federal, state, local,
              unions etc... <br>
              That could go in the description, far too many variables
              around the world for a single system I think. <br>
              Lets get the first level of tagging done before
              contemplating a more complex area?<br>
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          <div>No, I agree with you!</div>
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          <div>I would think either of the 2 basic we mentioned should
            fit office=government or office=politician </div>
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          <div>Question though (more for someone in Europe) - is a
            "Member of the European Parliament" elected, or just
            appointed by their home country? Are they a "politician" as
            such?</div>
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          <div>Is there another overall term for elected people? (&
            yes, I can think of quite a few terms for them, but I don't
            think we should be marking any of them on the map! :-))</div>
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          <div>Thanks</div>
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          <div>Graeme</div>
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