The Italian parliament on Thursday approved a series of sweeping reforms to the nation’s electoral laws spearheaded by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ahead of next year’s elections. The reform package, known locally as the Stabilicum, changes Italian elections into a full proportional system
The government of Argentine President Javier Milei on Wednesday submitted a bill to Congress aiming to overhaul the nation’s elections — urging the need to “fix a system that is fundamentally flawed” and make it more transparent and less costly.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK won over four million votes but only secured five seats in the House of Commons, sparking calls for electoral reform.
The omnibus spending bill will include the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, a bill that was drafted in the wake of the January 6 Capitol Riots to amend the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and change the process for members of Congress to object to the certification of a presidential election, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
Tower Hamlets, London, has voted for Mohammad Lutfur Rahman — removed from office for “corrupt and illegal practices” in a 2014 election — as Mayor.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage said that Donald Trump’s speech at CPAC cemented his position as the leader of the Republican Party.
Emmanuel Macron’s government will drop a 2017 electoral reform promise, with former Interior Minister Christophe Castaner stating it would only help Marine Le Pen’s populist party.
Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice has unveiled plans for sweeping, wholesale constitutional reform at the party’s general election campaign launch, introducing proportional representation, replacing the House of Lords, empowering voters with real recall powers, and taking on electoral fraud and judicial bias.
A massive 76 per cent of voters say peers in the House of Lords are “out of tune with the will of the British people” after they voted down the government on Brexit 15 times, a poll has found.
A petition calling for a referendum on the abolition of the House of Lords will be considered for a debate in Parliament after receiving more than 100,000 signatures.