Translation of "Wahlrechtsreform" in English

Let us hope that Mubarak is more serious about electoral reform.

On 28 September 2014, spontaneous protests were held against proposed electoral law reform.

Tangible progress is required, on strengthening the rule of law and on electoral reform in particular.

Finally, in December the failure of the referendum on electoral reform brought about a change of government in Italy.

On 28 September 2014 spontaneous protests erupted in Hong Kong as a reaction to proposed changes in the electoral process.

Italy's Chamber of Deputies voted by a large majority in favour of Matteo Renzi's controversial electoral law reform on Monday.

At a rally on 26 August 2012, attended by thousands of people, she called the women of Togo to a week-long sex-strike against recent electoral reforms, which would make it easier for the ruling president Faure Gnassingbe's party to win re?election in the parliamentary polls scheduled for October 2012.

The election is likely to see a strong contest between the SPÖ and the BZÖ over the post of governor, while the other Austrian parties (the ÖVP, the FPÖ and the Greens) play only a minor role in Carinthian politics.

Of course, the main obstacle to electoral reform is the need to persuade those whose jobs depend on maintaining the status quo .

They argue that a new caretaker government, probably led by the technocratic finance minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, will reform electoral laws to keep the Five Star Movement from power.

However, Islamists were among the 29 parliamentary deputies pushing for constituency reform, a fact that eased their dilemma.

Opposition legislators wanted electoral reform, but no new taxes; the administration wanted more revenues, but no new election laws.

It urged the Croatian Government to increase efforts along this path, and to fully implement all the commitments recently undertaken, including in the fields of legal discrimination against returnees, of the media and of election law reform.

On democratisation and human rights, particularly concerning the media (especially TV) and electoral reform, little or no progress has been made.

Within the country, the preparation for the general elections in 2009, in all its aspects, and on the basis of constructive dialogue across the political spectrum (election code reform, civil registries, ID cards, biometric passports) will be one of several important elements which the Council will assess in the autumn, on the basis of the Commission progress report, in relation to progress towards meeting the EU's conditions for further progress towards the EU.

The Guardian, The Independent, the Daily Mirror, and the Financial Times supported the change to AV.

In the cabinet of Baron Max Wladimir von Beck he was minister for the interior from 2 June 1906 to 15 November 1908 and worked on the electoral reform project (the introduction of universal male suffrage) of 1907.

Working class and middle class "Popular Radicals" agitated to demand the right to vote and assert other rights including freedom of the press and relief from economic distress, while "Philosophic Radicals" strongly supported parliamentary reform, but were generally hostile to the arguments and tactics of the "Popular Radicals".

But the EU still seeks progress from the government on other aspects of democratization, such as the opening of a dialogue with the opposition, access to the media and reform of the electoral law.

Monetary reform, like electoral reform, is a big topic, and one that requires a willingness to change and to think outside the box.

Monetary reform, again, like electoral reform, will not come easily because the enormously powerful interests that benefit from the existing system will do their utmost to maintain their advantage.

This was, on the one hand, because the secession had not yet taken place in practice, and the North American colonies in which British emigrants had settled were in any case seen as being more a part of Britain than other colonies. On the other hand, this was also due to the fact that political ideas and problems similar to those discussed by the Americans also shaped the debates in Britain.17 For example, the opposition in London had already demanded in the 1760s reforms of parliament and the electoral system that would break with the principle of virtual representation18 that the American patriots later attacked.

The day before, Bethmann-Hollweg had persuaded the Kaiser to order the drafting of a reform to electoral law introducing universal and equal suffrage in Prussia, something which had been demanded by the Majority Social Democratic Party (MSPD) for years.

The reasoning cited by the coalition parties to support an electoral reform, after which a "Personalized proportional representation with closed regional lists" through the introduction of various ratios such as the so-called women's list places the "better reflect Baden-Wuerttemberg society in all its breadth" would, pointed Gögel the realm of fantasy.

Monetary reform, like electoral reform will not come easily because the enormously powerful interests that benefit from the existing system will do their utmost to maintain their advantage. 9.

There is also the reform electoral law, which will likely come up as a key demand, and which the PSOE opposes since the current system favours it significantly.