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To be sure, within a couple of years, Cameron was calling for the Brexit referendum in a bid for votes, and Johnson was stepping up as a leader of the “Leave” campaign.
One thing, however, seems certain: If Scotland
votes
for independence in September, a referendum within the rump UK on continued EU membership would be even less likely to produce a victory for those who wish to remain.
A net Democratic gain of four Senate seats would produce a 50-50 split, in which case, if Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wins, her vice president, Tim Kaine, would be on hand to break tie
votes.
A Republican minority in the Senate can still effectively limit her agenda by using the filibuster, which requires 60
votes
to end a floor debate and bring a bill to a vote.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court still has only eight members, instead of the usual nine, creating the possibility of split
votes
on key decisions.
Distrust of politicians is mounting, manifested in weak electoral turnout (except for the last presidential election), protest
votes
for extremist parties, and the state’s inability to reform itself.
On average, far-right
votes
increase by about a third in the five years following systemic banking distress.”
It is now time for actions that adequately respond to the upheavals created by all these
votes.
Thus, alternatives will have to be found despite the fact that they all hit groups whose
votes
governments need for electoral survival.
Still No Exit for GreeceWASHINGTON, DC – Opinion polls in the run-up to Greece’s early general election on January 25 indicate that the left-wing Syriza party is likely to win the largest share of
votes.
As a result, Syriza stands to earn a crucial premium under Greek electoral law, according to which the party that gains the most
votes
is allocated an extra 50 of the parliament’s 300 seats.
His Social Democrats (SPD) got 38.5 per cent of votes, and so did the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) of his rival candidate Edmund Stoiber.
Of the four main opposition parties that fielded candidates for the 469 parliamentary seats in contention, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) took the bulk of the
votes
in the southwest of the country, felling such PDP stalwarts as House speaker Dimeji Bankole and Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Analysts predicted that a large share of the region’s
votes
would go to the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), led by Muhammadu Buhari, a northern Muslim from the state of Katsina.
The Socialists had initially envisioned a process, following the American example, which was to include successive votes, beginning at the departmental level before continuing to a nationwide poll.
The Security Council normally
votes
on issues that threaten international peace and security, but this method would allow only a small number of governments to decide Earth’s fate.
Perhaps every country should vote in the UN General Assembly on how to proceed; the option receiving the most
votes
– with a possible mandatory minimum requirement, such as requiring an alternative to win a majority or some higher number of
votes
– would prevail.
If the government can influence 16 of the 30 functional votes, it can thwart proposals from the directly elected legislators.
A worthwhile effort could have been blocked, or President Barack Obama’s Democratic administration could have been compelled to be more generous to American corporations, in order to pick up needed
votes
from Republicans.
A similar pattern can be found in the distribution of
votes
in the 2012 US presidential election or in French support for Marine Le Pen’s National Front in the 2015 regional elections.
Democracy means many things, but at its core it requires that people choose their rulers and that
votes
be weighted equally.
First, there is the open channel, which gives a larger share of
votes
to the nations contributing more to organizations such as the IMF and the World Bank.
After all, it does not seem outrageous that Bill Gates does not have multiple
votes
in the US elections on the ground that he contributes more to government coffers.
Indeed, the suggestion that Gates should have more
votes
sounds outrageous.
The Socialists secured almost 11 million
votes
– around three million more than it had four years earlier – and won 164 parliamentary seats, up by 39.
Looking at the reach of the rockets over time, Zeitzoff and Getmansky found that the share of right-wing
votes
has increased 2-6 percentage points in areas that have come into the range of possible attack.
A female US presidential candidate has now won a majority of women’s votes, and more total
votes
than her male opponent, and yet her strategy failed to deliver enough
votes
to secure a victory.
Rather than view recent polling as referenda on market reforms, or on capitalism versus communism, these
votes
show how much East European politics now resemble politics in the West: interest groups rule.
Estonia’s former government may have been too severe with pensioners, but at the same time parties advocating moderate benefit levels have been defeated by parties willing to raise the stakes in populist bids for pensioner
votes.
With Europe now facing the risk of a slew of further breakup votes, an urgent question is whether there is a better way to make these decisions.
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