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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2013 8:53:31 GMT
The election of a President for Trinidad and Tobago is a very simple procedure lasting ten minutes or less. It is done by an Electoral College inside the country's parliamentary chamber.
Anthony Carmona, a senior judge and an independent, was elected yesterday to a 5-year term for this largely ceremonial role.
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Georg Ebner
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jan 26, 2021 8:04:02 GMT
Now and again i have thought, that it is not a good idea, when parliaments (like Austria's LandTage aso.) have an even number of MPs.
2 days ago Tobago elected its 12 councillors and i was wondering, why no results were published since then.
Well, a/the reason will have been a shock: It ended 6:6 (49.3%:49.5%) for the centre-left governing party (2017: 10 with 54.68%) and a regionalistic challenger (2; 30.96%).
No idea, what will happen next.
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Post by European Lefty on Feb 13, 2021 20:41:38 GMT
Now and again i have thought, that it is not a good idea, when parliaments (like Austria's LandTage aso.) have an even number of MPs. 2 days ago Tobago elected its 12 councillors and i was wondering, why no results were published since then. Well, a/the reason will have been a shock: It ended 6:6 (49.3%:49.5%) for the centre-left governing party (2017: 10 with 54.68%) and a regionalistic challenger (2; 30.96%). No idea, what will happen next. Coming back to this, the former AG and author of the legislation creating the THA has said a) unless the two van agree to a power-sharing deal, there has to be a new election and b) if they can't agree on who to select as presiding officer, the THA is not properly constituted and therefore can't dissolve itself so there can't be another election. As the Trinidadian parliament has no authority over it, nobody else can either a) impose the required officers or b) dissolve it for them |
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peterl
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Post by peterl on Feb 14, 2021 3:13:40 GMT
Maybe all members could resign and there could be 12 by elections?
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Georg Ebner
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Post by Georg Ebner on Dec 9, 2021 15:51:56 GMT
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Post by minionofmidas on Dec 9, 2021 16:56:13 GMT
looks like there was some kind of deal to powershare until after a redistricting (with expansion to 15) and then dissolve? |
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Post by minionofmidas on Dec 9, 2021 17:11:04 GMT
No deal. The central government (/parliament) octroyed such a solution. Indeed the PDP claimed gerrymandering... if that was true then it backfired spectacularly.
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Post by neilm on Jan 3, 2022 8:00:34 GMT
The PDP is the new regionalist party.
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Post by johnloony on Jan 4, 2022 13:59:55 GMT
No deal. The central government (/parliament) octroyed such a solution. Indeed the PDP claimed gerrymandering... if that was true then it backfired spectacularly. What does “octroyed” mean? |
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Post by minionofmidas on Jan 4, 2022 14:48:32 GMT
No deal. The central government (/parliament) octroyed such a solution. Indeed the PDP claimed gerrymandering... if that was true then it backfired spectacularly. What does “octroyed” mean? 'imposed'. Negatively connoted. I vaguely suspected it might not be an English word at all when I wrote that, but it turns out that, while the German word is imported from French, the French meaning is somewhat different. |
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