The system they look at is called a "direct election recording", or DRE, system.
She won this post by direct election: it is not in the president's gift.
That, at least, might be overcome by the direct election of a local personality to run local services.
But the direct election for mayor a first in British politics means that personalities might count for more than parties.
But neither the government nor the opposition Labor Party, led by Kim Beazley, a republican, supports direct election.
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The new law embraces a system that combines direct election and proportional representation.
Finally, after the Beslan tragedy, he eliminated the direct election of governors altogether.
He implemented regular legislative elections and, ultimately, the direct election of the president.
Repeal the income tax, repeal direct election of senators, and end the Fed.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo won the job of vice-president by direct election in 1998.
After four years he was returned for a second term by direct election.
Respectable bicameral democracies around the world confine direct election to one chamber only.
The politicians know that direct election would deliver not a figurehead president but one who could rival the prime minister.
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She's the author of The Case Against Direct Election of the President.
The Preparatory Committee originally favored a multi-seat, single-vote method to choose the 20 legislators to be returned by direct election next year.
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America has done little more than tinker with its constitution since 1791 (such as introducing the direct election of senators in 1913).
He also wants to create the position of vice-president (to be appointed by the president), and provide for the direct election of judges.
Initiative, an organization dedicated to abolishing the Electoral College and instituting the direct election of the President of the United States by popular vote.
In recent years, the world has watched with hope and admiration as Indonesians embraced the peaceful transfer of power and the direct election of leaders.
He now calls for some direct election to the upper house so that it can better check the domination by the executive of the lower one.
On the face of it, Mr Netanyahu has a strong ally in the new constitutional arrangements which went into force with his direct election in 1996.
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But, as in 1995, next year's polls are expected to return 20 legislators by direct election -- as mandated by the Basic Law, Hong Kong's post-1997 constitution.
In fact, the Basic Law holds out the prospect of Hong Kong choosing its chief executive as well as its entire legislature by direct election after 2007.
And only 24 of Legco's 60 seats will be filled by direct election in the territory's five geographical constituencies (up from 20 seats in the previous elections two years ago).
One of the recent polls, for example, suggested that 69% of respondents were more ready to opt for a republican future if it involved the direct election of the president.
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Proceeding along such a path is only possible with a more democratic system by which the European executive is appointed either through direct election or election by a more robust European Parliament.
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Its presidential candidates peripatetically alighted, weirdly and ineffectually, on such issues as vaccine scaremongering, secession, repealing the direct election of Senators, unspecified spending cuts, hinted disapproval of connubial acts between husbands and wives, even moon colonies.
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But nonprofit groups such as Common Cause and the Center for Democracy and Technology last year pressed for a direct election of at-large board members and, after winning the backing of the U.S. government, convinced ICANN to follow their advice.
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Add up all the coded messages and it is pretty clear that Mr Blair is even more hostile than he was last January, when the government published a white paper on the Lords, towards direct election to the reformed upper house.
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