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This tag should be used to address questions relating primarily that relate to parliamentary procedure governed by law or judicial decisions, and may relate to any based on rules, customs as well as ethics of parliamentary procedure.

Parliamentary procedure is the accepted rules, ethics governing meetings of an assembly or organization as well as those governed by supra-constitutional, constitutional, statutory or decisional law or case-law. (see, for e.g., Karácsony and others v. Hungary, no. 42461/13, 2014, ECtHR) Its object is to allow orderly deliberation upon questions of interest to the organization and thus to arrive at the sense or the will of the majority of the assembly upon these questions. Self-governing organizations follow parliamentary procedure to debate and reach group decisions, usually by vote, with the least possible friction. (Wikipedia, Parliamentary Procedure)