Instead, he was ready to discuss with Mr Veltroni a new electoral system along German lines: proportional representation, with a threshold for parliament.
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In democracies with proportional representation (as in continental Europe), maps are not very important.
"Even those who want proportional representation agree with Nick Clegg that AV is 'a miserable little compromise', " he said.
It could be a big boost to the Pirate Party elsewhere, particularly in countries with proportional representation rather than a single-member, district-based system which favors larger parties.
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The haggling over what shape the new administration takes could be hard to stomach for a country unused to the back-room deals that democracies with proportional voting systems rely on to form governments.
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Governor Romney made his case based to his record of staffing his Massachusetts cabinet with more proportional representation of women.
The latest proposal would reinstate full proportional representation, but with a series of extra provisions ostensibly intended to produce stable government.
The Liberal Democrats have long campaigned for a more proportional voting system, with the single transferable vote their favoured option, but the Conservatives agreed to a referendum on AV as part of the coalition deal.
Assuming it has passed, there will now be a fresh general election, in December, with a more proportional system of representation, in which many more Sunnis are expected to participate.
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If, however, something close to a fully federal system has emerged, with real power and legitimacy devolved to regional assemblies and mayors, and with a more proportional electoral system for the Commons, then a powerful upper house may come to seem not only unnecessary but dangerous, for it would risk gridlock.
By the autumn, faced with Scottish parliament elections, using yet another proportional system, voters could be both bewildered and fed up with constant electioneering.
Moreover, a person's risk of coming down with bipolar disorder is directly proportional to how many relatives have it and how close they are genetically to the individual.
If this were to happen, and a hung parliament were the result, then I presume the first instinct of the Liberal Democrats would be to apply the principles of proportional representation and try to form a government with the Conservatives?
The exclusion must be allocated to each item of property with built-in gain on a proportional basis.
By early morning, after all the votes had been counted and 46 parliamentary seats allocated under the proportional-representation system, the GNP had emerged with 133 seats, just four short of a majority.
They're the party with most to lose, remember, and the proportional nature of the Assembly's voting system camouflaged the hit they took a year ago, losing only one of their six seats.
The government has decided that there should be a single national list, with each party or combination of parties winning seats by proportional representation.
Much of Labour's support, however, stems from disenchantment with the first government to be elected under the now unpopular proportional-representation system.
However, in Israel's highly fragmented proportional voting system, Mr Netanyahu is expected to seek a coalition government with other parties from the right, including Naftali Bennett's.
Mr Clegg duly unveiled a plan on May 17th that calls for a chamber of 300 representatives (less than half the current size), with 80% elected for 15-year terms under a proportional voting system, and the remaining 20% appointed.
He wants to replace single districts with a chamber that is partly chosen from districts and partly through proportional representation, each elector having two votes.
The voting system is highly complex, with two-thirds of the 498 elected seats being decided by proportional representation and the rest by a first-past-the-post system.
The new party's initial successes were all in the proportional representation elections for the European Parliament - winning its first three seats in 1999 with 7% of the vote.
Its job is to recommend a single proportional alternative to Britain's current first-past-the-post electoral system, with voters asked to choose in a referendum between that alternative and the status quo.
The Administration looks forward to working with the Congress to develop levels for the various caps that provide for substantial, and proportional, increases.
Santorum needed the Texas primary on May 29, with 154 delegates at stake, to be winner-take-all instead of the proportional allocation system based on vote results now in place.
The government wants to make the Lords a mostly elected chamber of Parliament, with the number of members cut to about 465 and the first elections taking place by proportional representation in 2015.
Labour, with Lib Dem support, is committed to setting up an electoral commission to propose a single proportional alternative to first-past-the-post.
He is regarded with great suspicion by the Blair camp as a troublemaker: but he did push for both proportional representation and the drive to adopt more women candidates.
He also hit out at the present proportional representation system for voting for assembly members which he described as leading to "perverse outcomes", with candidates defeated in a first-past-the-post system getting in under the regional list ballot.
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