non-inscrit

plural non-inscrits

1. IrelandespeciallygovernmentAn independent politician.

   A non inscrit can produce amendments but he cannot be a rapporteur.

   1972, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by Command

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   Lastly, a pair of moves that are invisible in Table 17-4 involves one non-inscrit who affiliated with the Gaullist group only to return to the ranks of the non-inscrits one week later.

   1986, Philip E. Converse, Roy Pierce, Political Representation in France, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 548

   The vice-presidents are members, along with the chairs of the six permanent commissions, the rapporteur général of the finance commission, the presidents of the political groups (including a delegate representing the non-inscrits) [...]

   2009, P. Smith, The Senate of the Fifth French Republic, Springer, →ISBN, page 178

2. governmentA member of a party which is not part of a European political group.

   Finally there is the group of the 'Non Inscrits', which traditionally has been dominated by extreme-right members.

   2009, Jacques Thomassen, The Legitimacy of the European Union After Enlargement, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 26

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   What she meant, of course, was that she was fed up with being a 'non inscrit' member and would like to be accepted into our group.

   2011, Nigel Farage, Flying Free, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN

   The EFDD therefore captures the complex dynamics at work within the Parliament where there are now many Eurosceptic MEPs, in the EFDD, the European Conservative Reform Group (ECR), the ENF, and among the non-inscrit, but the diverse nature of that scepticism and disagreements over many policy areas make it very difficult to maintain harmony within and across such eclectic groupings for a full five-year parliamentary term.

   2016, Michelle Cini, Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan, European Union Politics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 162