If its members won't relearn the value of compromise, then voters must use the next election to show that they want representatives who care enough about governing to try to compromise.
If Spanish courts shut down all possibilities of a referendum, Mas is widely expected to use the next elections in Catalonia as a de facto referendum on independence.
The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, was quick to warn Italians not to use the "next elections as a pretext to put in doubt the necessity of the measures approved until now".
No one can reliably predict the electoral impact of AV if it is used in the next election, because much will depend on the relative popularity of the two coalition parties at the time.
No one can reliably predict AV's electoral impact if it is used in the next election, since much will depend on the relative popularity of the two coalition parties at the time.
Which would be fine if they were not dealing with real lives and real people, but reality is, we are not just a political issue to use for the next election, we are human beings who need relief.
The President has punted, we're not going to follow suit, and, yes, we will be giving our political adversaries things to use against us in the next election, and shame on them if they use it.
Even the normally scrupulous Martin Kettle, writing in Thursday's Guardian, preferred to suggest Armageddon for us in the next election using a mid-holiday poll showing us at 10%, rather than Tuesday's poll in his own newspaper giving us 15%; no comment on the fact that this was precisely in line with our average between 1997 and 2001, before returning 52 seats in parliament.
The PAP will use the next four years, until the next election, to woo voters and denigrate its opposition, she predicted.
[The filer] could extend his deadline to show use until beyond the next election, and Trump could be blocked from registering 'Keep America Great' for hats," Doyle said.
