Sentence examples for electoral amendment from inspiring English sources

The Coalition and the Greens are locked in a procedural tussle with Labor in the Senate to bring on the commonwealth electoral amendment bill 2016.

The prime minister said after consideration of the report, the government would move amendments during the debate on the commonwealth electoral amendment bill 2016 on Wednesday morning.

Given his role in sectarian violence and prominent position in the dominant Shia coalition, it is understandable that Sunni leaders were hesitant to view him as a viable negotiating partner when he proposed a compromise parliamentary seat distribution after the November 23 Shia-Kurd backed electoral amendment was adopted.

President Leonid D. Kuchma has formed a commission of local and federal officials, members of Parliament and scholars to study constitutional reforms and electoral law amendments that would increase the powers of Parliament.

Although the vote did not doom electoral change by amendment to the Constitution in the current Congress, it went a long way in that direction.

Moreover, electoral transparency furthers First Amendment principles by allowing the public to make informed decisions.

But it came at a price: to acquiesce in an opposition-inspired constitutional amendment on electoral reform.

An amendment to electoral law means all loans of £5,000 and above to main political party offices, and £1,000 and above to constituency and local offices, have to be declared.

Under the Bayh amendment the electoral vote by states would be eliminated and the Presidential candidate who re ceived the highest total of popu lar votes wherever cast, would be elected.

This decision was reached following an analysis of the legislative history of the Seventeenth Amendment and electoral processes; based on this analysis, the court concluded that the Pennsylvanian use of a nomination process before a special election implied a right to vote, which was violated by the lack of a primary and necessitated a strict scrutinising of the legislation.

When no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution revised the electoral process to provide that the presidency would be determined by the newly-elected House of Representatives -- which might on its face suggest that choosing electors on the basis of Congressional districts might be an acceptable approach constitutionally after all.