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In a nationwide vote to select local authorities (the so called Conseiller Général), the far-right National Front gained 11% of the votes cast, but secured only 0.1% of the seats.
This is because the big countries are acting as if they “own” seats on the Executive Board – that there is a “German chair”, a “Spanish chair”, an “Italian chair”, and so on.
Current practice is blatantly unfair, because it excludes candidates from small countries from competing for the vacated seats.
Preventing small countries – as well as other big ones – from competing for specific vacant seats reduces the Executive Board’s potential competency.
Giving big countries permanent seats on the Executive Board also makes it easier for their politicians to control the ECB through the appointments process.
Belgium, for example, complains constantly about its lack of representation on the Executive Board, but it has been more interested in demanding equal treatment with the Netherlands in the ECB than pursuing a common strategy with its neighbor to counter the big countries’ unwarranted assumption of permanent seats.
If that is not possible because the original big countries have locked up most of the six seats on the Board for themselves, public opinion in Europe – which is broader than German, French, Spanish, and Italian opinion – could turn against the ECB.
For this reason alone, the competition for the limited seats on the Executive Board must be an open one.
If the FARC wins only 3% of the national vote in 2018, it will still have five of the 106 seats in the Senate and five of the 166 seats in the House of Representatives.
This leniency has drawn fire from the agreement’s opponents, but, like the guaranteed congressional seats, it makes sense.
Prisoners held in Israeli jails were granted 20 seats in the enlarged 100-member revolutionary council.
While the center-left coalition, led by Pier Luigi Bersani, won a comfortable majority in the lower house – thanks to the bonus that Italian electoral law grants to the largest coalition – it gained too few seats in the senate to govern effectively.
The center-right European People’s Party, which gained a narrow plurality of 221 seats in the 751-seat parliament, has claimed victory in the election; and many others, including socialists, greens, and liberals, concur that the EPP’s Spitzenkandidat, Jean-Claude Juncker, has a moral right to be selected as President of the Commission.
In fact, though the EPP won 29% of the seats, versus 24% for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), the S&D can claim victory.
Though the election system is purely proportional and the S&D won the popular vote, the reason that it ended up with fewer seats is simple: its affiliated parties won relatively more votes in the larger countries, where it “costs” more voters to gain a single seat.
The German Constitutional Court recently relied on this fact in a controversial decision striking down the 3% electoral threshold for parties to gain European Parliament seats in Germany (the small far-right National Democratic Party picked up one seat in the European Parliament as a result).
Nowadays, the Republicans control most state legislatures, enabling them to win a majority of House seats despite lacking the support of a majority of the American public; in the 2012 congressional election, Democratic Party candidates countrywide received 1.4% more votes than Republicans.
Though the center-right European People’s Party won only a narrow plurality of 221 seats in the 751-seat European Parliament, center-left, green, and liberal MEPs have all rallied behind the EPP’s candidate, Jean-Claude Juncker, as the “legitimate” choice.
This is true, but only up to a point, for Lebanon’s confessional-based political system assigns the Shi’a, who make up close to 40% of the population, only 21% of parliamentary seats.
The Security Council’s composition wouldn’t be substantially different if an “ideal” distribution of seats were to be achieved.
The British ban, as well as the impending court case, has actually made Wilders more popular in the Netherlands, where one poll indicated that his populist anti-Muslim party, the PVV, would get 27 seats in parliament if elections were held today.
People wanted to know whether board members were actually doing their jobs or just filling seats and collecting a nice fee.
They want to monopolize the [parliamentary] seats.”
Depending on which party wins more seats, either Labour’s Gordon Brown or the Conservatives’ David Cameron will become prime minister with the Liberal Democrats’ support.
With 12% of the popular vote, compared to 16% in June, the MHP lost almost half of its parliamentary seats.
That may be a big “if,” especially given that the greatest threat posed by anti-European parties consists not in the number of seats they win, but rather in their ability to influence the political mainstream.
Gaining fewer than 30 of its 120 seats might drive it to seek potential partners among the orthodox – an approach that could alienate moderate secular voters.
First, it must be small, with no more than, say, ten seats.
Second, the three major EU member states - France, Germany, and the United Kingdom - should be granted permanent seats.
These and other EU members could rotate in the non-permanent seats.
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