Australian dual citizenship rules could distort composition of Parliament
Australia’s late 19th-century constitutional bar on duel citizenships, combined with more modern 20th and 21st century national approaches to the notion of citizenship, threatens to make the Australian Parliament increasingly … Continue reading
Dual citizenship crisis roils Australian Parliament
Australia’s constitutional rules relating to eligibility for parliamentary election are wreaking havoc across the current Parliament. Two senators have already resigned, and three more parliamentarians have been referred to the … Continue reading
Australian eligibility laws claim another member of parliament
Australia’s constitutional limits on who can be a candidate for election have struck again, causing one of the more experienced of the Greens Senators to give up his seat in … Continue reading
Complaints of both chaos and corruption in PNG elections
Elections taking place in Papua New Guinea are tainted by both chaos and corruption, according to a leading independent election observer. Elections for the 111-member National Parliament are run over several … Continue reading
Macron proposes that MPs eliminate their own seats
French President Emmanuel Macron will ask the new French National Assembly to vote for electoral changes which would see more than half the current members of his own party out … Continue reading
Next UK electoral boundaries will leave ‘youth surge’ out
By late 2018 Britain is set to have new constituency boundaries for future House of Commons elections. But they will be based on December 2015 voter registration numbers, leaving out … Continue reading
The present – and near future – of UK tactical voting
Was the hung-parliament result of this month’s British elections affected by tactical voting? Indeed it was – and even more so will the next election be, if it is held … Continue reading
Republicans hang on to four House seats
Two vacant seats in the US House of Representatives have been filled overnight, in the last of four special elections to replace Congressmen appointed earlier this year to President Trump’s … Continue reading
French shrug, stay home from legislative election
The French have stayed away in droves from the first round of their national legislative election, with a shockingly low voter turnout of just 47%. Sunday’s election turnout result – … Continue reading
French election result could be even weirder than British
Next up, the French. French citizens will today (June 11) vote in the first of two rounds of voting to elect the members of the Assemblée Nationale, the French national … Continue reading
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