Sentences with phrase «more elected chamber»
Lords reform is also a low priority: «In terms of reform, having a more elected chamber, which is what I favour, to be frank is not an urgent priority.
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More specifically, the chamber would be directly elected by a form of proportional representation.
A single chamber parliament elected under AV would be even more tyrannical than the current model.
My concern is that we've done the first part but not the second part, and therefore - you mentioned an elected second chamber for example: I couldn't agree more.
Queens Democrat Cathy Nolan in a radio interview on Thursday said electing a woman speaker of the state Assembly would bring a more «collaborative style» to the chamber's leadership.
Actress Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging Cuomo in a primary, has been highly critical of the governor's history of warm relations with the Republicans in the Senate, and his perceived lack of effort to get more Democrats elected to the chamber.
Continue reading «The Lords debates Lords Reform, Day Two: More Tory hostility to an elected second chamber»»
Currently, the New York State Senate is run by the Republicans despite having more elected Democrats in the chamber.
ELECT MORE WOMEN,» tweeted Glick, who has represented Manhattan in the chamber for nearly 30 years.
«Yet the Coalition is preparing to replace that House with a new second chamber elected by means of regional party lists» Factually untrue, Tories hate closed list PR even more than Lib Dems do, the plan is, and always was, for elections to be run using STV (also known as the British Proportional System, as used for the Australian Senate).
It will create hundreds of unaccountable new elected politicians at a time when we as a party are committed to reducing the cost of politics an; gd it will produce a chamber which is less expert, less diverse and significantly more expensive than the present one.
More distinctive is the reiteration of Plaid's long - standing support for the use of Single Transferable Vote (STV), an electoral system that it wants to see used for electing the second chamber as well as («when applicable») in all other elections.
An elected second chamber, a more proportional electoral system and that old chestnut, a Bill of Rights and Responsibilities, are all on the table.
Within a day of announcing his run he was seeking support from New York City's large Democratic bloc; he spent the rest of the week and weekend making his pitch to more of the 106 Democrats in the chamber — including recently elected members of a «reform» bloc that had formed to press for Silver's ouster.
Committee members also questioned whether an elected second chamber would be any more accountable than now since their 15 year non-repeatable term meant they were cut off from their electorates as soon as they are elected.
But more than this, reformers are left wondering whether the House of Lords will ever become a democratically legitimate body either by way of incremental changes or, as many of us would prefer, a «big bang» event which replaces the upper house with an elected chamber.
Actor Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging Cuomo in a primary, has been highly critical of the governor's history of warm relations with the Republicans in the Senate, and his perceived lack of effort to get more Democrats elected to the chamber.
«This conference has always given its leader the ability to go with the message that the conference has given,» Heastie said in his first news conference after being elected as the chamber's first new leader in more than two decades.
In 2012, North Carolina elected a Republican majority in both legislative chambers and a Republican Governor for the first time in more than 50 years.
And as if 40 elected benchers was not unwieldy enough (unable to even fit into Convocation's chambers), there are also 8 lay benchers, a number of honorary benchers, all the former Treasurers, as well as those benchers who by 2015 will have been a bencher for more than 16 years.