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In addition to replacing the multi-member-district, single-vote electoral system with a single-member-district, two-round voting system, the amendment reduces the number of seats in the Yuan by half.
Similarly, a higher electoral threshold for winning seats should counter vote buying by candidates.
Moreover, in proportional voting systems like Italy’s, where no single political party normally wins a majority of seats in parliament, the president often plays a key role in appointing the prime minister.
Such countries go out of their way to secure seats on the commission and then actively work to build alliances with pliable governments.
The countries of Latin America did not deserve the blustering demagogues and iron-fisted generals who, until recently, often occupied the seats of government.
Earlier this month, more than 200 Putin opponents won seats on local councils in Moscow’s municipal elections.
Indeed, they have changed the constitution three times since 1987 to ensure that every vote for the Nationalist Party and the Labor Party is given a higher weighting than votes received by any of the country’s other political parties when it comes to translating votes into parliamentary seats.
Given the current stalemate between the right and left, a shift of one or two seats (out of 120) in the Knesset could make a difference in the composition of the next government, which in Israel is always a coalition of some type.
The main winner was Yair Lapid, whose Yesh Atid (“There is a Future”) emerged suddenly to pick up 19 seats and become the second largest party in the Knesset.
Initially, it seemed that the Labor Party’s new leader, Shelly Yachimovich, would be the main beneficiary of this public anger; but, a series of mistakes reduced her support, leaving Labor with 15 seats – and benefiting Yesh Atid.
Naftali Bennett, a comparable figure on the right, succeeded in taking away votes from Likud and other parties, rejuvenating a tired Zionist Orthodox party and ending up with 12 seats.
So it is likely that Netanyahu will form a coalition with Lapid and former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s Hatnuah party (which won six seats), along with some of his “natural” right-wing allies.
His coalition government survives mainly because many members of Israel’s parliament know that they would lose their seats in an early election.
Indeed, the government lost the popular vote and took power with a margin of parliamentary seats that was lower than the number of constituencies where serious irregularities were reported.
Designated castes and tribes were guaranteed not only equality of opportunity, but also positive outcomes, aided by quotas for educational institutions, government jobs, and even seats in parliament and state assemblies.
Clearly, reservations of public-sector jobs and college seats alone have failed to end the discrimination.
And yet, amid this turmoil – indeed, in a week in which two government ministers resigned in the face of allegations of corruption and impropriety – Karnataka’s voters gave Congress 121 of the state assembly’s 224 seats and reduced the BJP’s total to just 40.
Modi came and campaigned for the BJP, but the party lost seats in every location at which he appeared – a huge setback in a state that it had hoped to use as a platform for its national ambitions.
Congress, by contrast, will be eyeing the state’s 28 parliamentary seats confidently.
Nationally, no single party received a majority, but the centrist, democratic opposition won more than 70% of the National Assembly seats.
Moreover, men occupy all 23 seats on the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Governing Council.
In Lebanon’s post-war parliament, seats are widely distributed among the various confessional communities, so that none feels excluded or fears losing political representation if it loses numerical superiority.
With regard to parliament, there is no need to follow Lebanon’s rigid apportionment of seats according to confessional identity.
Instead of legitimacy , or simply getting more seats at the table to provide input, the discussion in Asia is increasingly about outputs: how to create institutions that are more effective .
Since the last European elections, however, the continent’s politics have undergone a profound transformation, with 41 new parties winning seats in national parliaments since 2014.
That discontent will likely gather momentum as elections near, which may be enough to stop the federal authorities from meeting their strategic goal of winning an unchallengeable majority of seats in the new Duma.
As China’s leaders scramble to address these challenges, will they still relish the idea of providing an international audience with front-row seats?
The Republican Party, with its 40 Senate seats, is simply filled with too many ideologues – and, indeed, too many senators intent on derailing any Obama initiative – to offer enough votes to reach the 67-vote threshold.
Roughly 90% of the world’s countries are without seats at the G-20 table, so many of their most serious development challenges – for example, limited access to foreign markets or to finance for infrastructure investment – are beyond their control.
In 2014, Scotland voted in its own referendum to remain in the UK; but the nationalists won almost all of Scotland’s seats in the general election eight months later.
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