Sentences with phrase «german election system»

The German election system is overly complicated, involving three levels (national, the states and the election districts).

The German election system is such that the final proportion of parliamentary seats must match the country wide proportions of party - preference votes.

Not exact matches

In his last major TV appearance before the German election, Social Democrats leader Martin Schulz has warned that Merkel's conservatives could erode social support systems.

In 1976, the Hansard Society recommended that a mixed electoral system in a form different from the German be used for UK parliamentary elections, but instead of using closed party lists, it proposed that seats be filled by the «best runner - up» basis used by the German state of Baden - Wurttemberg, where the compensatory seats are filled by the party's defeated candidates who were the «best near - winner» in each of the state's four regions.

«After testing these techniques in the French and German elections we rolled them out globally, including in the U.S.. By the time we discovered the cluster of accounts we assessed to belong to the Internet Research Agency this summer, around half had been disabled by our systems, demonstrating their effectiveness,» Stamos tweeted.