transferred his powers to the Cabinet, for a single day, consequentially overriding his veto. List of rubber-stamp legislatures Defunct legislatures Reichstag – Nazi Germany Chamber of Fasces and Corporations – Fascist Italy General Assembly – Ottoman Empire Grand National Assembly – Turkey (1920–1950) Congress of Soviets, Supreme Soviet – Soviet Union Great National Assembly – Communist Romania Volkskammer – East Germany (apart from last legislative period following the first free election in East Germany in 1990) Supreme Soviet – Byelorussian SSR Supreme Soviet – Ukrainian SSR 2017 Constituent National Assembly – Venezuela Cortes Españolas – Francoist Spain Roman Senate and Byzantine Senate – Roman Empire, Papal States, and Byzantine Empire National Consultative Assembly – Pahlavi Iran Revolutionary Command Council – Ba'athist Iraq Estates General – Kingdom of France before the French Revolution National Assembly and Federal Assembly – Communist Czechoslovakia Batasang Pambansa – Fourth Philippine Republic Legislative Council – Zaire Southern Court - The French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin (French Indochina) Legislatures with rubber-stamp history National Assembly – Communist Bulgaria National Assembly – Communist Hungary : Louisiana State Legislature – Louisiana under Huey Long Sejm – Communist Poland National Assembly – Estado Novo Federal Senate – Brazil under Military dictatorship between 1977 and 1985 National Assembly – South Korea prior to democratization Legislative Yuan, Control Yuan and National Assembly – Chinese Republic on Taiwan under martial law and civil war Congress of the Union – Institutional Revolutionary Party rule in Mexico between 1946 and 2000 Current rubber-stamp legislatures National Assembly – Belarus National People's Congress – People's Republic of China Legislative Council - Hong Kong (after the 2021 election) Legislative Assembly – Macau National Assembly of People's Power – Cuba Parliament – Egypt Assembly of Experts – Iran (not a parliamentary chamber but a deliberative body) Supreme People's Assembly – North Korea Federal Assembly – Russia (after the 2003 elections) People's Assembly – Syria National Council – Turkmenistan National Assembly – Vietnam National Assembly – Laos National Assembly – Djibouti National Assembly – Eritrea Parliament of Equatorial Guinea – Equatorial Guinea Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia References Political metaphors Metaphors referring to objects