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Meanings of direct election in English
Election in which people vote directly for the person that they want elected to a political position.
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Examples for "indirect election"
Examples for "indirect election"
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A great deal of virtue was to flow from such an indirect election.
2
If he were to fall after the end of this year, an indirect election is held in Congress.
3
In the former the majority system with direct election is used; in the latter, a proportional system with indirect election.
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In that case the two modes of election coincide in their result, and every advantage of indirect election is obtained under direct.
5
Other countries manage to strike a workable balance between the powers of democratically elected upper and lower chambers by using methods of indirect election.
Usage of direct election in English
1
Otherwise direct election was the method chosen for all the new Councils.
2
The legislature added another item: the direct election of a Pres.
3
Yudhoyono is Indonesia's first leader to be chosen by direct election.
4
Renzi is proposing to abolish the direct election of provincial governments, but not scrap them altogether.
5
The first direct election took place in 1979.
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Other proposals included direct election of local health boards and greater integration between health and social services.
7
More than 11,000 Cubans called for the direct election of the president.
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But what is undemocratic about the direct election of public representatives to serve a designated sector in society?
9
Schroder, who remains the more popular politician, would no doubt win a direct election, but lose a parliamentary one.
10
In the former the majority system with direct election is used; in the latter, a proportional system with indirect election.
11
Now that the government has come out in favour of direct election, alarm bells have begun ringing on the backbenches.
12
Democracy activists in Hong Kong want reforms that could culminate in a direct election for the city's leader in 2017.
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The first serves for the direct election of candidates standing in constituency seats, the winner being determined by a relative majority.
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The cards were tattered and dog-eared and dated from the first round of registration for Afghanistan's first direct election in 2004.
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Madam, - The direct election of Dublin's Lord Mayor would be a major stride towards enabling citizens to have an effective voice.
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Former taoiseach John Bruton has called for the direct election in all EU member states for the president of the European Commission.
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