Member of the Legislative Assembly
Representative of voters to a regional or sometimes national legislature
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A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected to sit in a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers the legislature of a federated state or autonomous region, but is also the name of several national legislatures.
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