Sentences with phrase «democratic election system»

In other words, I am not interested in examples of someone being elected as «President for Life» which has happened numerous times, or examples of parent - child pairs of democratic politicians who manage to be elected in an ordinary democratic election system to a term of office for a fixed term of years.

Jeremy Corbyn has just competed under the most democratic election system that Labour has ever held and has won the biggest ever mandate of a leader.

Not exact matches

Soros said that, in addition to Democratic victories in elections this year, a goal of his was to reestablish a functioning two - party system to uphold US institutions.

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

Elections Canada (also known as the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer) is a key agency in the federal government and Canada's democratic system.

And by «democratic» I mean liberal democracy — i.e., a multiparty system, regular competitive elections, and civil liberties.

Elections and lack of government censorship are cited as proof of the effectiveness of our democratic system.

There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants.

Instead, she laid the blame at the feet of the Democratic Party — speficially the Rev. Al Sharpton, who publicly declared his support for keeping the partisan primary system in place last weekend, saying nonpartisan elections would enable self - financed candidates like the billionaire mayor to take over the political system and disenfranchise minority voters.

But I guess that if forced to choose between those two and only those two (and the first - past - the - post system effectively does force people as far as elections are concerned), they will likely vote for candidates from the Democratic Party.

Simply put, democratic nations are celebrated for the robust and transparent systems they put in place that inspire the confidence of all in producing credible electoral outcomes that jealously protect the public purse and not how often courts annul elections within the electoral cycle.

So «semi» reflects that there is a public commitment to revive a democratic system and constitution after the civil war, but no elections have been held.

Does this system have any democratic election characteristic or even with these anomalies is it a democratic system?

They also may know that this system allows the candidate coming in second to win the election, as occurred in 2000, and thus violates the democratic norm of equality in voting.

In its place will be an arguably more democratic «one member, one vote» system, which — had it been in place for the last leadership election would have almost certainly chosen David Miliband over Ed.

If the election conduct and the outcome will be highly disputed chances are that large - scale violence might re-emerge and years of investment towards more stability and a democratic political system are lost.

The New York election system needs a colossal reform that would solidify our democratic process.

Alternatively they'll vote you out at the next election but that's the beauty of a democratic system.

It is the sixth presidential election since the country of more than 45 million people embraced a multi-party democratic system in 1992.

This antiquated system blocks access to voting in primary elections, and reduces citizens» ability to participate in our democratic process.

The Democratic Audit, a research body based at the LSE, proposes a reform to the Commons Speaker election system to end the disenfranchisement of the Speakers» constituents

Democratic Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is not participating in the system, citing good - government group's complaints and its start in the middle of an election cycle.

'' As opposed to the Delegates System, the Aspirants believe Direct Primary election is more transparent, less monetised and energises the democratic system through the participation and involvement of the generality of the party members.&System, the Aspirants believe Direct Primary election is more transparent, less monetised and energises the democratic system through the participation and involvement of the generality of the party members.&system through the participation and involvement of the generality of the party members.»

Presumably, a single - district («majority») system like in the US, France or the UK was perceived as less democratic so if you still want to allow some form of personal election, you necessarily end up with a complex system.

As the Sept. 15 primaries approach, some candidates are questioning how democratic the New York City election system is, including Miguel Santana, a candidate in the 14th City Council District, who was kicked off the ballot this morning.

A report released Monday by the good - government group Citizens Union argued the current system for redistricting, dominated by the Democratic majority in the Assembly and Republicans who control the Senate, has led to less - competitive elections, reduced voter turnout and, over the past four election cycles, a 96 percent re-election rate for incumbents — who are returned to office by an average margin of victory of 61 percentage points.

Campaigners for democratic reform give a mixed reaction on Mr Brown's proposals, with some, such as Power 2010 saying it did not go far enough: «Without troubling the public for their views, ministers hand - picked the voting system they favour in a cynical exercise aimed at wrong - footing the Tories ahead of a likely election defeat.

New York City's public financing system facilitates fairer and more democratic elections.

A former Minister of state at the Presidency, Rashid Pelpuo, has claimed that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) collation system broke down completely at the most critical moment of the 2016 election.

Incumbent Democratic Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is not participating in the public financing program, blasting the system approved by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers for coming in the middle of an election cycle.

Given the unpopularity of PP and PSOE, the fact that EP elections are often considered of «second - order» and the specificities of the electoral system for European elections in Spain (proportional representation in a large national electoral district of 54 seats with no electoral threshold), one would expect that this election will threaten the stability of the two - party system (or «bipartidismo», as it is called in Spain) that has dominated Spanish politics during the recent democratic era.

There were also representatives of other International Observer Groups, including the European Union (EU), Carter Center, Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), U.S. National Democratic Institute (NDI), International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA), West Africa Network for Peace building (WANEP), Mano River Union (MRU), and the Women's Situation Room, working for peace and non-violent elections in Africa.

If the public understood more transparently how the corrupting influence of patronage actually works, how the power system turns everything to its own advantage, and how the genuine objectives of democratic elections are so readily thwarted, a lot of these unedifying practices would have to be curbed.

But democratic systems also have the downside of high cost of periodic elections, the influence of special interests on elected leaders and the general lack of a sharp national focus, in some cases, because of the frequent changing of leadership and change of national development plans anytime such changes happen, and also the generally slow nature of the decision - making process.

We also have seen more people of color elected to office - including a Latino mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, in Los Angeles, who was opposed by the Democratic Party establishment but elected in a nonpartisan primary election system.

He writes, «If the losers are unwilling to accept the results of elections and work within the democratic system toward the next election, then the alternative taught by human history is violence.

In part because the «top two» election system that was rammed through by corporate influence has eliminated party primaries and made money the key influence in all legislative elections, the Democratic Party has moved to the right this year.

According to them, modern democratic systems meet four basic criteria: 1) executive and legislatures are chosen through open, free, and fair elections; 2) universal suffrage; 3) protection of political rights and civil liberties; and 4) elected authorities possess real authority to govern (not subject to tutelary control by another unelected group).

Although most school boards in NJ use a democratic system of elections, some still operate under a system of mayoral appointments.

Last week, in the final presidential debate ahead of November's election, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton commented that the United States would benefit from «an energy system that crosses borders.»

During his tenure with the Attorney General, Mr. Levy was responsible for the investigation and trial of organized crime and corruption matters with statewide and national significance, including investigations into allegations of voter suppression in the 1993 gubernatorial election and the «computer gate» investigation involving the infiltration of the New Jersey Assembly Democratic staff's computer system.

And the idea that the American system would be compromised enough to allow outside meddling with the most basic of its democratic functions — the election of its leaders — would have seemed even more absurd.

Blockchain is a technology that minimizes fraud and maximizes efficiency, security & transparency in supply chains, healthcare, global money systems, financial technologies, democratic elections, auction of public assets, energy trading, electronic record authentication, delivery of Government services, IoT and much, much more.

The principal objectives of the organisation are to raise the awareness of human rights and its various abuses, on the one hand and to create a vibrant democratic system through election monitoring on the other.