Sentences with phrase «getting electoral reform»

In many ways, getting electoral reform is the result of political and cultural changes, as much as a source of them.

That's assuming that Lib Dems think the best way of getting electoral reform is getting into a coalition in the next parliament.

AV may be far from perfect for those (like ippr) who want genuine proportional representation, but this is the closest we've come to getting electoral reform put to the people (who deserve the chance to have a say on this).

«We don't have to go to Albany and deal with that political dysfunction in order to get this electoral reform,» he said, an apparent reference to that fact that many other voting and election laws are dictated by the state.

«You would get electoral reform, it would be a pro-Europe government and we would have a progressive economic policy.

Not exact matches

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.

Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre.

Notley may be holding back for a number of reasons: (1) electoral reform wasn't part of her platform so she may be reluctant to spring it on Albertans, (2) she may be waiting to see how Trudeau's electoral reform works out and (3) she may be banking on the fact that the WR and PCs won't get it together in time for the next election.

My worry is that it would collapse before it achieved anything concrete on electoral reform, particularly given the additional problems of getting a Lords majority and the ambivalence of the PLP on this issue.

Quite frankly I'm getting a bit sick and tired of hearing people like Tom Harris MP telling the rest of us that electoral reform is «an issue for half a dozen Guardian readers in [my] constituency.»

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

Plus, if we get AV, there will be, rest assured, no further electoral reform for decades.

That said, if the Tories manage to get an actual majority, go about their own electoral «reform» and keep themselves in power for a while without going anywhere near PR, I suspect Nick Clegg will go down as the worst player of a good electoral hand in history.

While the other party leaders grapple with their own futures — Mr Clegg to hold on to his leadership; Mr Miliband to ponder whether he needs to adapt his «no risk» strategy to get into Number Ten; and Mr Cameron to try to deliver progress on EU reform sooner rather than later and to head off calls for an electoral pact with UKIP — Mr Farage has the luxury of planning his next steps while momentum is on his side.

If there's one takeaway from this election, it is that we need real campaign finance reform in this country, and we need to elect leaders who have dedicated themselves to getting corporate money out of our electoral process.»

Both candidates agree that the eventual aim was to get the party into a position where it can be in a coalition government again, though both have ruled out entering into a coalition without a guarantee of electoral reform from their governing partner.

After being asked four times to rule out such discussions on electoral reform, Cameron said: «Put the question in, you know, Serbo - Croat, if you want to — but you're going to get the same answer.»

(However, the Tories achieved their aim of preventing electoral reform and are also likely to get their way on Scottish independence.)

The danger, for anyone interested in putting an end to a process that protects unresponsive officials, is not that Cuomo will fail to get the legislature to go along with him; it is that he will cut a deal, in exchange for something else he wants, that would allow the legislature to keep a firmer hand in the process of drawing electoral lines than the reform proposal currently calls for.

The survey, which also served as a fund - raising letter for the DNC, asks about such issues as the economy, environment, raising the federal minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, getting «weapons of war off our streets,» electoral reform, abortion rights, and gay and transgender rights.

While mayoral control is locked in intense political jockeying and electoral reforms are mostly dead on arrival due to opposition from the Republican - controlled state Senate, the de Blasio administration is somewhat optimistic about getting at least some of what it wants on the other three items: design - build, M / WBE contracting, and speed cameras.

Thus for Liberal Democrats, finally — after all that talking, all those motions, all that work — getting a referendum on electoral reform and losing it is a catastrophe.