Sentences with phrase «until voting reform»
Or better, there is a full scale pact or alliance until voting reform is implemented: tough to achieve!
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Regarding parliamentary elections, single member plurality voting for most MPs developed from the various reform acts of the 19th and early 20th century, although oddities like the University MPs continued until 1950.
Although their official report isn't due to be published until the 23rd of April, on Wednesday the Guardian reported that the Joint Committee on Lords Reform has decided to back an «open preferential voting system» rather than the government's preferred Single Transferable Vote (STV) for electing members to a reformed House of Lords.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday that he is about to «launch a major effort» to see voting and election reforms passed in Albany by the end of the legislative session, which runs until the middle of June.
And tomorrow I'll be stocking up on the black coffee and covering the Lords reform bill crisis all day, right up until the voting at 10 pm.
The arrangement, they argue, has led to watered - down accomplishments like a minimum wage that won't increase to $ 15 north of the New York City suburbs until a pre-determined point in the future and a lack of agreement on key voting reforms and campaign - finance law changes.
The Cabinet Office did not want to comment, but officials pointed out that the coalition agreement states that until Lords reform passes: «Lords appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election.»
«The Welsh Liberal Democrats will continue to demand voting reform until power is put back into the hands of the people.»
Until we enable suburban legislators to regard a vote for reform as a political winner, and not merely a vote they're allowed as a display of political guilt, the underpinnings of reform will remain thin.
Elected hereditary Peers The right of hereditary Peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords was ended in 1999 by the House of Lords Act but 92 Members were elected internally to remain until the next stage of the Lords reform process.