In future, the entire Duma will be made up from party lists, which will squeeze out independent legislators.
Even if women are included in party lists, no order has been issued about how prominently they should appear.
In the elections due in November 70% of MPs will be elected via party lists which must include at least one woman.
Opposition parties demanded that 50% of seats be allocated to party lists, but the new electoral law gave them just 27 seats, or 18%.
It allocates the rest of the seats to candidates drawn from party lists, topping up the totals to make them match the parties' shares of second votes.
Given the kind of candidates the SPD and Greens have put on their party lists and the kinds they haven't both parties will be much more left-wing in the next parliament.
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"There is no accountability for these list members, " he argued, urging MPs to support a new clause to the bill which would remove the contingent of MSPs elected from party lists.
Party workers have calculated that, if Scotland votes the same way it did at the last election, Labour will win 56 constituency seats and only seven seats from the party lists.
Another clue to the Labour Party's motivation is provided by looking at how it plans to choose its party lists, and, critically, how it determines the order of candidates on each list.
The roots of the row stretch back to the parliamentary elections, which followed a procedure set by an electoral law providing for two-thirds of the seats to be allocated by party lists and the rest to be fought by individuals running as independents.
The most striking outcome of the congressional election in July was the relative failure of the Islamists, whose main party, Justice and Construction, allied to the Muslim Brotherhood, got only 17 out of the 80 seats elected by proportional representation on party lists, whereas a coalition of secularists, liberals and milder Islamists won 39.
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Mr Salmond denied there was a crisis and said under the Labour party hidden waiting lists had been endemic and subsequently had been abolished by the Scottish National Party.
Finally, news from the Netherlands, where the finance minister and Labour party leader Wouter Bos has apologised for embarrassing the politician chosen to head the European election lists for his party, by revealing he was the party's sixth choice.
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The fate of both men, who won their seats by being top of their party's regional lists, will be in the hands of regional returning officers.
And so you should be screening a list of people involved with your third party against the sanctions lists (nothing looks worse to the regulators than doing business with a known drug kingpin or terrorist) and against the PEP list.
The grassroots, and Mr Miliband, want affiliated unions to share their membership lists with local Labour Party branches.
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Because the second vote elects candidates from lists drawn up by party bosses, it sometimes brings into parliament people who have little knowledge of, let alone sense of direct responsibility for, voters on the ground.
But he repeated his call for the lists to be provided by the party to all three candidates equally.
The commission recommends that the second vote determining the allocation of top-up members should allow the voter the choice of either a vote for a party or for an individual candidate from the lists put forward by parties.
Both the Tories and the Lib Dems plan to allow ordinary party members to choose the order of candidates on their lists.
The Christian Party(Wales) has 20 candidates on the regional lists.
He is endearingly reluctant to admit that the finished document, which he describes as "a key piece of source material for the election, for candidates, for MPs, for campaigners in the field and also, obviously, for journalists", is, like any party's manifesto, unlikely to top the bestseller lists.
But the Scottish National Party has accused Labour of breaking a pledge to reduce waiting lists by 10, 000 before the next general election.
Some of those on the lists have been contacted by the state's Republican Party.
Voting lists show that 136 Conservatives - almost half of the party's MPs - opposed the bill.
But they will also now be allowed to vote for the Scottish party's leader, and for the candidates to go on the lists for the election to the Scottish parliament.
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