The parties decide also the salaries of the public posts.
In a public post, he said, "you're like a tennis ball - you go back and forth over the net."
He won 859 to 809 and, at the age of 44, after 31 years of campaigning, assumed his first public post.
Aside from his teaching career, Niles also held a number of public posts.
But he continued to serve in public posts and to pursue a number of causes.
Members of the Congress could not hold any other public post, and there were sanctions against absenteeism.
He was a worthy and peace loving monarch that held several other public post.
His last public post was as Ambassador to Venezuela in the 1970's.
They were the only way to get any kind of public post and the security that brought.
He held a number of public posts and served several times as an ambassador abroad.