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In most parts of Europe, the elections will be an opportunity for protest
votes
on national issues.
Given that Ma won by 800,000 votes, this tactic may not have been decisive, but it most likely played a considerable part in determining the outcome.
Indeed, I personally know a successful US hedge fund manager who is quite conservative and consistently
votes
Republican, but who is thinking of supporting Obama.
The reason for this was that France demanded to have the same number of
votes
in the Council of Ministers as Germany, even though Germany's population is 36% larger.
This populist appeal was effectively targeted, and he won the Electoral College, despite losing the popular vote by nearly three million
votes.
But for 100,000
votes
in three rust belt states, he would not be president.
The PD secured a comfortable lower-house majority only thanks to the huge premium provided by the current electoral law to the party, or coalition of parties, that gets the most votes, in this case the PD and the small Left Ecology Freedom (SEL) party.
Equally, big member states ought to have more
votes
in the Council of Ministers, to reflect their greater populations.
Small member states do not like either proposition, because they would lose Commissioners and
votes.
And, in the real world, it is the social contract, with its institutions and procedures, its modes of deliberation, delegation, and mediation, and, in particular, its votes, that stands behind the noble invention of a “people” and accounts for the fact that those who comprise it occasionally take a break from tearing each other limb from limb.
The central issue in Russian politics is not the battle for
votes.
What he wants, it
votes
for.
Politicians, too, tend to have their moral compasses calibrated to the relentless hunt for
votes.
In the meantime, Article 136 of the existing Treaty on the Functioning of the EU would allow for some preliminary steps, such as the designation of
votes
at the European Council that are reserved for eurozone countries only.
In order to succeed, the Commission’s critics in Parliament needed to muster a very large majority in order to carry a vote of censure: two thirds of the
votes
cast, and over half of all the members of the Parliament.
In Italy, a curious rule that provides for the grouping which has a handful of
votes
more than the other to get a bonus of several dozen seats in the lower house.
During his successful campaigns, he said whatever it took to win votes; during his three terms in office, he used the same tactic to form coalitions.His only agenda was to protect or advance his own business interests.
But most young British did not actually show up to cast their votes, allowing the UK’s older, predominantly pro-Brexit cohorts to win the day.
Cameron’s desperation to win
votes
spurred him to call a referendum on Britain’s European Union membership, the result of which forced him to resign.
Indeed, the AKP insisted on submitting the entire package to a single “yes/no” vote, despite repeated calls from civil-society groups and opposition parties to allow for
votes
on each amendment separately.
People will base their
votes
in the referendum not on the substance of the amendments, but on how they feel about the AKP’s eight years in power.
Swedes recently gave enough
votes
to a right-wing, anti-immigrant party to give it representation in parliament, reflecting a growing backlash against the rising number of immigrants in Swedish society.
Under the new electoral rules, seats are allotted to parties in proportion to votes, but a special provision induces parties to forge pre-electoral agreements: the pre-electoral coalition that wins the most
votes
receives a seat premium that ensures a comfortable majority in the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house).
As a result, Prodi has won a large margin in the lower house, but he has only a handful of extra
votes
in the Senate.
Under the new electoral system, all of these parties will be competing with each other for the same votes, and each one will seek to protect its own constituency or claim credit for whatever is accomplished.
The UK
votes
to leave now, in the hopes that a panicked EU would not only grant further concessions, but also alter its own vision of ever-closer union.
Britain’s post-referendum economic and political travails will make other EU member states think twice before holding their own popular
votes
on membership.
But now I do not need your symbolic votes;I need your concrete support.
The reality is that the British public debate on sovereignty will not end when the
votes
are counted.
The fact that Trump lost the popular vote by more than two million could re-energize efforts to reform the Electoral College – efforts that already have resulted in the necessary legislation in states representing 61% of the required
votes.
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