Sentence examples for electorate system from inspiring English sources

The constitution, the electorate system itself, was designed to make sure that the two major political parties would obtain relative and absolute majorities with ease, leaving no place for civil society which has historically been extremely passive in Spain.

If you have a divided society, you start worrying more--if you're in the wealthy and you have an electorate system that can use your wealth to affect the politics, you say, "I'd rather have a small government that isn't able to redistribute money, take money away from me.

The leaders of the minority communities, mainly Christians in Punjab province and Hindus in Sindh, objected to the "separate-electorate" system (non-Muslims cannot vote for Muslim candidates and vice versa) ordained by the military regime, and asked their followers to boycott the polls.

Its electoral system privileges party over electorate and the ruling elite is self-selecting and jealous of its privileges.

The bankrupt electoral system, which allows party bosses rather than the electorate to pick the MPs, may be altered.

Parliament is the creature of the electorate, and improving its quality should focus on improving the electoral system.

Careful manipulation of the electoral system can enable repressive governments to steal elections long before the electorate has casts its vote.Will the observers make any difference?

Because of our electoral system, parties (like today's Conservatives) can win and govern alone on the votes of less than a quarter of the electorate.

In my view, far from empowering the electorate this system would be open to abuse by powerful vested interests and most likely deployed to hinder social progress.

Indian elections are notoriously hard to forecast owing to a diverse electorate and parliamentary system in which local candidates hold great sway.

Two bills were prepared for Legislative Council reform; one to lower the voting age to 18 and introduce universal suffrage, and another to make councillors elected from a single statewide electorate under a system of proportional representation.