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The current confusion of political directions became evident with the breakdown of the DC-PC agreement for the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. The ....
Visakhapatnam: The Opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) once again resorted to politicising the death of a YSRCP loyalist and forcibly covered his body with the party flag during his funeral procession at Bheemili in Visakhapatnam district. As per reports in Sakshi, a local YSRCP local leader Appikonda Appalanaidu from Bhimili was suffering from illness for a long time and was ....
Voting tactically may seem like a realistic, mature option, but it compromises the integrity of your vote and is corrosive to the long-term health of democracy ....
IF you ever play the game Famous Belgians, then remember the name Joseph Auguste D’Hondt alongside Audrey Hepburn and Hercule Poirot. D’Hondt (1841-1901) was the eponymous inventor of a system of proportional representation for counting votes that will likely determine Scotland’s constitutional future. Apart from the fact he was a professor of civil law at Ghent Universit and married an English woman called Anne Clifford, Mr D’Hondt has left little by way of an historic footprint. Apart, that is, from his elegant but fiendishly complicated vote counting method. Proportional representation became an issue the moment democracy reared its head with the American Revolution. The second US President, John Adams, summed up the issue thus: “A governing assembly should be in miniature, an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason, and act like them”. The problem lies in how to elect that assembly, so it reflects the electorate at large. The 19 ....