Scandal investigations touched thousands of politicians, administrators, and businessmen ; the shift from a proportional to an Additional Member System ( with the requirement to obtain a minimum of 4 % of the national vote to obtain representation ) also altered the political landscape.

In the Italian referendums of 1993, voters approved substantial changes, including moving from a proportional to an Additional Member System, which is largely dominated by a majoritarian electoral system and the abolition of some ministries, some of which, however, have been reintroduced with only partly modified names, such as the Ministry of Agriculture reincarnated as the Ministry of Agricultural Resources.

In addition, 51 Left Party MPs were elected through the party list element of Germany's Additional Member System of proportional representation.

Overall majorities are unusual in the Additional Member system that is used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, which was specially designed by the Labour UK government in 1999 to prevent any party gaining overall control of the parliament.

All three devolved institutions are elected by proportional representation: the Additional Member System is used in Scotland and Wales, and Single Transferable Vote is used in Northern Ireland.

* Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson, Additional Member and Vice-President

Members are elected for four year terms under the Additional Member System of proportional representation.

The Additional Member System ( AMS ) is the term used in the United Kingdom for the mixed member proportional representation voting system used in Scotland, Wales and the London Assembly.

It sought to undermine the proportionality rules of the Italian Additional Member System of elections by running many of its constituency candidates under a decoy list called Abolizione Scorporo, a title which explicitly stated its opposition to the counting rules ; its tactic largely worked because it had more support than the centre-left United in the Olive Tree alliance.

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The Conservative Party, still recovering from their wipeout in 1997 across Scotland, failed to win a single constituency seat but did manage to win 18 seats through the Additional Member System.

The Assembly comprises 25 members elected using the Additional Member System of proportional representation.

Mitchell is also a keen supporter of the Additional Member System, ( the electoral system used in elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly ), and called a Private Members ' Debate on this issue on 1 December 2009.

Lynch was fourth on the Green Party's list of candidates for the Top-Up ( Additional Member System ) seats at the 2000 London Assembly elections ( 11 seats elected by proportional representation ).

Lynch was third on the Green Party's list of candidates for the Top-Up ( Additional Member System ) seats at the 2008 London Assembly elections., but the Green Party did not receive enough votes to elect a third Assembly member.

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However he has held the Additional Member System seat since 2003.

Labour's initial proposals to elect the Welsh Assembly only be a system of first-past-the-post constituency elections was reversed in late 1996 to allow the Additional Member System to be introduced as well.

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The Assemblies were expected to be elected by an Additional Member System similar to those used for the London Assembly, the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales.

Currently, there is an electoral region for the National Assembly for Wales with the name ( used, in parallel with the smaller constituencies, to elect top-up members under the Additional Member System ), which covers the north-east of Wales ( specifically the entire area of the former pre-1996 county of Clwyd ) as well as the Northern-most coastal areas of north-western Wales ; the rest of North Wales is covered by Mid and West Wales.

Stewart Maxwell ( born December 24, 1963 in Glasgow, Scotland ) was the Minister for Communities and Sport from 2007 – 2009 and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the West of Scotland, being elected as a Scottish National Party ( SNP ), Additional Members System member at the 2003 election.

Under the Additional Member System, or Mixed Member Proportional, the method used in Germany and New Zealand, a merger of party list representation and geographic representation is employed — parties contest geographic seats, but are then " topped up " with MPs from a party list.

Additional supplements included the Hand to Hand Combat System ( 1988 ), World War 2 Weapon Data Supplement ( 1988 ), Wild West Weapon Data Supplement ( 1989 ), Civilian Weapon Data Supplement ( 1987 ), Living Steel Power Armour Sourcebook ( 1991 ), Advanced Damage Tables ( 1987 ) and High Tech Weapon Data Supplement ( 1987 ) amongst others.

Additional side skirts were provided, and the fire control system was upgraded to the Laser Tank Fire Control System ( LTFCS ).

Additional HH equipment consists of one Hitchhiker Ejection System Electronics ( HESE ), one 5. 0 cubic-foot ( 142 L ) HH canister, and one Adapter Beam Assembly ( ABA ).

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Additional fresh water comes from the difference of precipitation less evaporation, which is positive.

Additional evidence is given by one inscription on a metal plaque from Steinsel-Rëlent in Luxembourg, in the territory of the Celtic Treveri.

Additional background history, usually not covered by specific rules, is often also used to further develop the character.

This process whereby an actor rerecords lines spoken during filming in order to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes is called Automated Dialogue Replacement ( ADR ), also known as Additional Dialogue Recording.

Automated Dialogue Replacement, or Additional Dialogue Recording ( ADR ), is the process of re-recording the original dialogue after the filming process for the purpose of obtaining a cleaner, more intelligible dialogue track ( also known as " looping " or a " looping session ").

Additional voltage is sometimes required, beyond the voltage predicted by the E °< sub > cell </ sub >.

Additional points ( with no maximum at the highest levels of competition ) can be earned depending on the difficulty of the moves and the length of time taken to complete the ten skills which is an indication of the average height of the jumps.

Additional 20 % of the country's area consists of foothills whose altitude is 400 m at the most ; higher hills and water surface makes up the remaining 5 %.

Additional credence is given to this by noting who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in the two previous years, 1914 and 1915, and in the following year, 1917.

Additional patterns can be made on the surface of the knitted fabric using embroidery ; if the embroidery resembles knitting, it is often called Swiss darning.

Room and pillar mining often leads to retreat mining which is removing the pillars which support rooms, allowing the room to cave in, loosening more ore. Additional sub-surface mining methods include hard rock mining which is mining of hard materials, bore hole mining, drift and fill mining, long hole slope mining, sub level caving and block caving.

Additional kinetic energy is required to move an electron out of the conduction band and into the vacuum level.

Libr., Additional Manuscripts 43725 ; Gregory-Aland nº < big > א </ big > &# 91 ; Aleph &# 93 ; or 01, &# 91 ; Soden δ 2 &# 93 ;) is one of the four great uncial codices, an ancient, handwritten copy of the Greek Bible.

Additional clear space around the court is required in order for players to reach overrun balls.

Additional digital exchanges are permitting a rapid increase in subscribers ; the construction of a network of technologically advanced intercity trunk lines, using both fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay, is facilitating communication between urban centers.

Additional clear space around the court is needed in order for players to reach overrun balls for a total of 18. 3 meters ( 60 feet ) wide and 36. 7 meters ( 120 feet ) long.

Additional sources include V. pompona and V. tahitiensis ( grown in Tahiti and Niue ), although the vanillin content of these species is much less than V. planifolia.

Additional evidence against this hypothesis includes the fact that Mediaevalis is likely too young to have produced the Black Death due to its recent divergence from Orientalis.