Sentences with phrase «electoral reform since»

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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.

I have supported PR since 1990, and wrote in favour of electoral reform in the first piece I wrote on joining the Fabians in 2003.

The most important thing is that analysing past elections & predicting future elections is ridiculous, since electoral reform will hopefully change the political parties and the political process anyway, to make them more responsive to the genuine majority view, instead of the tribal attitude we see when Paul suggests that we should keep FPTP as the best way of electing a Labour government.

Labour's top candidate for Scotland is David Martin, who has been an MEP since 1984, when he represented Lothians (prior to the introduction of the reformed electoral system for European elections in 1999).

But many Labour supporters have since decided that it is a bad idea by the simple equation: electoral reform means coalitions and Labour does not like this coalition.

Under his auspices, next May the first national referendum will be held since 1975 and its subject is electoral reform.

We have been long - time campaigners for electoral reform and have been working harder since the expenses crisis.

On further inspection this division has existed within the Labour Party since its inception and when electoral reform has appeared on the political agenda in the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, it has prompted debate within the party.

Despite having a tenured position I left academia and have been working on electoral reform in Oregon since moving here ten years ago.

According to Charly Boy, the group considers it worrisome that the country has repeatedly failed to convince millions of Nigerians, through relevant reforms, to trust the electoral process which results in the steady decline in voters» turn - out since 2003 general elections.

David Cameron last night won strong support from his newly elected MPs for his offer to the Liberal Democrats to form the first coalition since the second world war with a referendum on electoral reform.

As Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has since confirmed to the House of Commons, there was no guarantee of electoral reform from New Labour.