The right for candidates to add their own seals has survived repeated reforms of election law, currently regulated by the Representation of the People Act.
Only the blessed accident of a hung parliament (in which neither main party will have a working majority) at the next or some future election can lead to reforms of parliamentary practice, to greater accountability and to the constitutional checks on minority parliamentary rule that Britain now lacks.
Both will be considered by the Welsh assembly's planning committee, when it reforms after the election.
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Denny Hastert, has cast doubt that there is enough time left in the legislative calendar to push through any major reforms before the election.
Can a caretaker administration credibly agree on far-reaching reforms with a general election due on June 5th?
Mr Cameron was a little more cautious than his Swedish counterpart: the reforms introduced after the election by his education secretary, Michael Gove, allow only not-for-profit groups to establish schools in England.
Mr. Righeimer says the councilmen facing re-election were targeted because they supported pension reforms.
Mr Fillon insisted this week that the government would step up its reforms in response to the election.
He has said he might stand if there were reforms to guarantee a fair election and if he could run as an independent candidate.
Nor is it fair to decry her as a conservative who is against all change: on election night, she spoke only against reforms that were too brutal.
He will be judged to have done his job if he can push ahead with the necessary economic reforms and survive until the election that is due next autumn.
But this week's election defeats seem more likely to undermine the reforms' chances than to spur the governing coalition into passing them.
Pro-Western leader Mikhail Saakashvili says the election will give him a mandate to continue his reforms.
But Congress has already missed the deadline for such reforms to take effect in the next election, though it may be extended.
Japan appears to have taken a big step toward freer capitalism with Junichiro Koizumi's snap-election victory, although the breadth of his intended reforms outside of postal-fund privatization remains to be seen.
The high growth and rising incomes since the reforms began would certainly help the re-election chances of a Western government.
Supporting Prime Minister Najib's reforms should only improve their prospects at the next election.
The island's first election, in 2008, saw the brothers campaign for radical reforms to the way Chief Pleas operated.
But her reforms were the central issue in the recent mayoral election, costing the mayor who appointed her his job.
Political commentator Nichole Bacharan says the election was the triumph of a platform proposing far-reaching reforms for Europe's third-largest economy over one stressing the need to preserve the country's welfare state.
Now Mr Najib must lead the BN into an election, and he is doing so on a platform of limited reforms.
The merits of the Stockholm reforms will be a key issue in Sweden's general election campaign in the autumn: the Social Democrats will accuse the Moderates (as Britain's Labour habitually accuses the Conservatives) of intending to dismantle public health-care.
After their election drubbing the Lib Dems came out against the coalition's own NHS reforms but hardened up their support for the deficit reduction strategy.
In the same election, two of the men responsible for kick-starting India's reforms in the early 1990s -- former finance ministers Manmohan Singh and Palaniappan Chidambaram -- were rejected by voters.
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Suppose, however, come the next election or the one after that, the Tories have a coherent alternative to Labour's reforms.
Chief among Mr. Cuomo's suggested reforms: an independent enforcement unit at the board that would be authorized to investigate election-law violations, without board approval.
The opposition Social Democrats are threatening to add to the list by rolling back some reforms, such as lower pensions and sick pay, if they win the general election in September.
In an ideal world Mr Brown would govern as best as he can till the late autumn, oversee the implementation of the speeded-up Kelly reforms, thus drawing the sting from the expenses scandal, and then call an election to clear the air.
Even before the election, Mr Veltroni said he wanted to co-operate with Mr Berlusconi on electoral and constitutional reforms to make Italy easier to govern.
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