Crossword-Solution: PRESIDIUM 9 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The first action is usually the election of officers and the _presidium._ The _presidium_ is a presiding committee, composed of representatives of the groups and political factions represented in the assembly, in proportion to their numbers.

The _presidium_ arranges the Order of Business, and its members can be called upon by the President to take the chair _pro tem._ Each question (_vopros_) is stated in a general way and then debated, and at the close of the debate resolutions are submitted by the different factions, and each one voted on separately.

This will become much clearer to you if you will recollect that I am a member of the _Tsay-ee-kah,_ and that at this very moment our party comrades are in the Winter Palace under bombardment, sacrificing themselves to execute the duty put on them by the _Tsay-ee-kah.”_ (Confused uproar.) “I declare the first session of the Second Congress of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies open!” The election of the presidium took place amid stir and moving about.

Avanessov announced that by agreement of the Bolsheviki, Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviki Internationalists, it was decided to base the presidium upon proportionality.

Hendelmann, for the right and centre Socialist Revolutionaries, said that they refused to take part in the presidium; the same from Kintchuk, for the Mensheviki; and from the Mensheviki Internationalists, that until the verification of certain circumstances, they too could not enter the presidium.