#electoral-reform

#electoral-reform

Sir Keir Starmer has been warned by his former local government minister that he risks squandering trust in Labour after a huge row broke out over proposals to postpone some mayoral elections. Jim McMahon, who was sacked by Sir Keir in the September reshuffle, hit out at the move to push four elections for new mayoralties in Greater Essex, Hampshire and Solent, Norfolk and Suffolk, and Sussex and Brighton back two years to 2028.

One paradox of American politics is that voters are both extremely polarized about politics and extremely disdainful of political parties. A record share, 43 percent, self-identify as political independents. Most of these are not true swing voters, but they hold both major parties in low regard. As of September, only 40 percent of voters approved of the ruling Republican Party. The Democrats' favorability was an even more miserable 37 percent-barely above their July showing, their worst in more than 30 years.

The Taoiseach has rejected suggestions that the nomination process for the presidential election is "anti-democratic" after a failure of Independent candidates to get on the ballot prompted calls for changes to the rules.

Jamaat-e-Islami placed a seven-point demand on the interim government headed by Muhammad Yunus to ensure a free, fair and peaceful election, justice for all mass killings, essential reforms, and a charter for last year's mass uprising.

Ministers are changing the voting system for mayoral elections, moving to a preferential system to ensure candidates have broader support rather than first-past-the-post.

The Election Commission of India has mandated that nearly 80 million voters in Bihar must re-register or risk being classified as suspected foreign nationals, leading to fears of disenfranchisement.