It is boycotting local elections due on November 20th because, it says, the electoral set-up is biased against it.
If it passes, it could soon be matched at federal level.The referendum was the main outcome of an independent citizens' assembly on electoral reform set up by the provincial government last year.
The electoral commission, set up last year to oversee elections and referendums, is currently in negotiations with the government over a new bill to allow a referendum on the single currency.
Now, American officials hope the United Nations can help the transfer by agreeing to play some sort of role in Iraq between now and June 30 that would legitimize the electoral process set up by the Americans, or at least some version close to it.
The Army's announcement came as a new caretaker Iraqi government, headed by Iyad Allawi and including a diverse cabinet of 33 Iraqis, accepted their appointments and the United Nations announced that an electoral commission will set up polling for January 2005.
Our electoral system is set up for a time that has passed us by.
In his view, the electoral system is set up to deter those outside the political process from getting involved, insulating those inside the process from any inconvenient consequences of democracy.
The National Assembly had just passed a new electoral law, which would set up rules for the country's first free elections in more than 20 years.
Instead of the existing modus, whereby the diets selected the deputies that were sent to parliament, the new bill set up electoral districts, each of which was to elect one deputy directly to the Reichsrat.
Landfall is due May 16th, when the results are tallied.In the past few months, at least 14 of India's biggest industrial houses have taken advantage of a new law to set up electoral trusts, hoping to make wavelets of their own by giving money to their favourite political parties.
An electoral body has been set up in this respect and forms for candidates have since gone on sale.
