The tendency to treat elections as an instrument of self-interest rather than an instrument of national interest had two important effects on electoral planning in Morocco.

* ACE Project: What is the electoral system for Chamber 1 of the national legislature?

Most democracies have partly proportional electoral systems, where several political parties are proportionally represented in the national parliaments, in proportion to the total numbers of votes of the parties in the regional or national elections.

He was " surprisingly slow in his reaction " to the Nazi electoral successes, and even when he was already the target of intense personal attacks, he thought that the Nazis should be part of the Prussian and national governments based on election returns.

A national conference held in August 1991 produced a draft constitution ( approved in a referendum January 12, 1992 ), a charter for political parties, and an electoral code.

The October 20, 1996 presidential, legislative, and mayoral elections also were judged free and fair by international observers and by the groundbreaking national electoral observer group Ética y Transparencia ( Ethics and Transparency ) despite a number of irregularities, due largely to logistical difficulties and a baroquely complicated electoral law.

The first electoral contest held under universal suffreage were the municipal elections of November 1956, the first national contest the 1957 election of the Territorial Assembly.

The first national election was held in 1964 for the seat of Honiara, and by 1967 the first general election was held for all but one of the 15 representative seats on the Legislative Council ( the one exception was the seat for the Eastern Outer Islands, which was again appointed by electoral college ).

The 1999 national elections were held under a new electoral system established by a 1996 constitutional amendment.

The 1999 national elections were held under a new electoral system established by a 1996 constitutional amendment.

Harding received 60 % of the national vote, the highest percentage ever recorded up to that time, and 404 electoral votes.

Cox received 34 % of the national vote and 127 electoral votes.

For example, in Canada, one proposal to reform the electoral system would see a 5 % national threshold, 1 % of the vote and 1 seat in the House of Commons, or 2 % nationally and 15 % of the vote in any one province.

It split from the national Democrats over what was perceived as federal intervention in the segregation practices, laws and constitutions of the Southern states, which, among other issues, had largely disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites by constitutional amendments and electoral requirements from 1890 to 1910.

The Republican coalition elected numerous African Americans to local, state, and national offices ; though they did not dominate any electoral offices, black men as representatives voting in state and federal legislatures marked a drastic social change.

In 1860 the American National Republican Convention included in their electoral platform, on which Abraham Lincoln stood for President, the following statement: "... We brand the recent re-opening of the African slave trade, under the cover of our national flag, aided by perversions of judicial power, as a crime against humanity ".

After the electoral victory of the left in the Spanish national elections of February 1936 came the July 1936 armed insurrection that led to the Spanish Civil War.

The electoral districts of Skåne County for national parliamentary elections

However, before he was sworn in for a second term, Fujimori stripped two universities of their autonomy and reshuffled the national electoral board.

A 1967 referendum to include all Aborigines in the national electoral roll census was overwhelmingly approved by voters.

Although southern Republicans rarely had local electoral success, they elected a substantial number of delegates to the national convention.

Despite this, the MBR-200 remained divided over electoral participation, and spent a year debating the issue in local, regional and national assemblies.

Although his coalition managed to secure passage of legislation to reform the electoral system in 1994, the subject of a long-running national debate, Hosokawa ’ s run as PM was short lived.

This, it is urged, would relieve the national committee from the necessity of appealing to the trust magnates.

The alternative to this is that if a conservative candidate is nominated the national committee will have to appeal to the trusts for their campaign funds, and in doing this will incur obligations which would make a Democratic victory absolutely fruitless.

( Significantly, bitter echoes of the 1960 power struggle that saw Mosk moving into the national committee post over Ziffren are still audible in party circles.

In an important assertion of national leadership in this field, he has issued an executive order establishing the President's committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Crime, to be supported and assisted by a Citizens Advisory Council of recognized authorities on juvenile problems.

She served one four-year term on the national committee.

In 1990, the Popular Front held its first National Congress, which formed a committee to draft a national constitution.

Suggestions for improvement in the operation of CITES include: more regular missions by the Secretariat ( not reserved just for high profile species ); improvement of national legislation and enforcement ; better reporting by Parties ( and the consolidation of information from all sources-NGOs, TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network and Parties ); more emphasis on enforcement-including a technical committee enforcement officer ; the development of CITES Action Plans ( akin to Biodiversity Action Plans related to the Convention on Biological Diversity ) including: designation of Scientific / Management Authorities and national enforcement strategies ; incentives for reporting and timelines for both Action Plans and reporting.

Until the formation of a national council in 1961, supporters and local groups had no formal voice in the national organisation, which until then had been led by the self-appointed executive committee.

* 1815 – the U. S. Senate created a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.

In 2003, a member of the European Parliament tabled a proposal in a temporary committee of the European Parliament that national civil ensigns be defaced with the European flag.

A transitional constitution was drafted in May as an outgrowth of a national political conference in March-April and later revised by a constitutional committee.

A committee of " national salvation " took over but also collapsed in half a year.

The Institute of technology system was organised on the committee areas or " functional areas ", these still remain legal but are not as important as originally envisioned as the institutes are now more national in character and are only really applied today when selecting governing councils, similarly Dublin Institute of Technology was originally a group of several colleges of the City of Dublin committee.

Quayle writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column, serves on a number of corporate boards, chairs several business ventures, and was chairman of Campaign America, a national political action committee.

Kemp was a member of the federal committee to promote Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a national holiday.

The Afghan Ministry of Culture and Youth established a national committee which organized an international seminar to celebrate the birth and life of the great ethical philosopher and world-renowned poet.

International Kendo Federation ( FIK ) grading rules allow national kendo organisations to establish a special committee to consider the award of those grades.

In October, a committee to " preserve the national memory " began assembling the collection for display.

The work of the committee included: inquiry into the conditions of intellectual life, assistance to countries where intellectual life was endangered, creation of national committees for intellectual cooperation, cooperation with international intellectual organizations, protection of intellectual property, inter-university cooperation, coordination of bibliographical work and international interchange of publications, and international cooperation in archaeological research.

During the second russification period, at the start of the First World War, the Dowager Empress, travelling by her special train through Finland to Saint Petersburg, expressed her continued disapprobation for the russification of Finland by having an orchestra of a welcoming committee to play the March of the Pori Regiment and the Finnish national anthem " Maamme ", which at the time were under the explicit ban from Franz Albert Seyn, the Governor-General of Finland.

Generally known as the " Brownell Committee Report ," after committee chairman Herbert Brownell, it surveyed the history of U. S. communications intelligence activities and suggested the need for a much greater degree of coordination and direction at the national level.

Although the NPC generally approves State Council policy and personnel recommendations, the NPC and its standing committee has increasingly asserted its role as the national legislature and has been able to force revisions in some laws.