Traduction de «Election based on the simple majority system » (Anglais → Français) :

6. The General Assembly shall elect its Chair and its Vice-Chair by simple majority of the votes, among its Members, for a three year term, renewable.

However, in view of the general political situation in the Community, coupled with continuing British refusal to abandon its simple majority system in single member constituencies, no progress was possible in the Council.

8. Considers that while the use of two-third majority laws is common in other Member States and has been a feature of the Hungarian constitutional and legal order since 1989, the extensive use of cardinal laws to set forth very specific and detailed rules undermines the principles of democracy and the rule of law, as it has enabled the current government, which enjoys the support of a qualified majority, to set in stone political choices with the consequence of making it more difficult for any new future government having only a simple ...[+++] majority in the parliament to respond to social changes, and thus of potentially diminishing the importance of new elections; considers that such use should be re-evaluated, in order to ensure that future governments and parliamentary majorities are allowed to legislate in a meaningful and comprehensive manner;

Finally, De Gucht proposed a top-up system whereby two-thirds of the British seats could be elected by simple majority in single member constituencies, but the remaining third would be distributed proportionately to the total vote of each party.

Concerning the weighting of votes, the two well-known systems also remain on the table: a simple re-weighting, in favour of which a narrow, very narrow majority is emerging, or a double majority system, but with alternative options, a double simple or double re-weighted majority, in other words a type of ‘demographic safety net’.

And then we have a system designed to hinder the Commission and make it more difficult – especially what was called the “contre-filet” system, under which the Council could block the Commission by a simple majority even when the Council was not capable of finding an alternative to the implementing measure concerned.