Election in which people vote directly for the person that they want elected to a political position.
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A great deal of virtue was to flow from such an indirect election.
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If he were to fall after the end of this year, an indirect election is held in Congress.
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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.
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Other countries manage to strike a workable balance between the powers of democratically elected upper and lower chambers by using methods of indirect election.
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Otherwise direct election was the method chosen for all the new Councils.
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The legislature added another item: the direct election of a Pres.
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Yudhoyono is Indonesia's first leader to be chosen by direct election.
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Renzi is proposing to abolish the direct election of provincial governments, but not scrap them altogether.
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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.
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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?
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Schroder, who remains the more popular politician, would no doubt win a direct election, but lose a parliamentary one.
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In the former the majority system with direct election is used; in the latter, a proportional system with indirect election.
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Now that the government has come out in favour of direct election, alarm bells have begun ringing on the backbenches.
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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.
