Proposal Van DijkSilos Involved And Superficial Dagblad Suriname

While there is some concern in Suriname regarding an alleged attempt to attack a subdistrict court building in Paramaribo, the discussion regarding a new electoral system is becoming more tangible. There are currently a few proposals on the table that ought to result in the parliamentary parties eventually coming to an agreement.

This parliamentary backing is crucial because it will always take a two-thirds majority to change electoral laws. The former chairman van dijk-silos of the Independent Elections Office has also published a proposal complete with bills, with which the government could work, or at least the government could use principles and concepts from the Van Van Dijk-Silos model.

First and foremost, the proposals call for a straightforward change to the Constitution. An alteration to the electoral rules is another suggestion made by Van Dijk-Silos.

This appears to be helpful but falls short from a legal standpoint because the legal text itself still contains a substantial amount of explanation. The law must be amended to remove this explanation, and it must be added to the article-by-article explanatory notes instead.

The distribution of seats, the type of electoral system, and the structure of the electoral process are just a few examples that the law must specify in a clear, mandatory, and imperative manner. In the Explanatory Memorandum, all justifications are provided.

It is necessary for the legislative amendment to define newly introduced concepts, such as "migration figures.". Then, plans must be made for tracking migration statistics, and the responsible authorities must be subject to requirements.

This is done in order to make it clear which characters are at play. 10 DNA members are chosen from each district under this system, which uses the district proportional system, and 41 members are chosen using the national proportional system.

Van Dijk-Silos' suggestion would divide the entire country of Suriname into six electoral regions instead of the traditional ten, where the national proportionality system would always allow for the election of between four and nine seats. In this situation, we work with electoral regions, which can be made up of several electoral districts.

Therefore, there are a total of 41 of these. In order to guarantee that each district has (at least) 1 representative in the National Assembly, the district proportional system has a total of 10 districts.

Ten constituencies are used in this situation. By state decree, the 6 electoral regions are chosen no later than a year before each election, based on the migration rates for each district.

The number of seats per electoral region will be changed (reshuffled) in the event that there is a significant change in the electorate in a district. An electoral population change of at least 10%, whether positive or negative, is considered significant under this proposal.

The proposal of the former OKB chairman does not indicate what should be understood by the 6 electoral regions. Is it whole or composite districts and is this fixed? Or are the electoral regions always determined on the basis of migration figures before the election? It suggests that Paramaribo and Wanica, and perhaps Commewijne as well, will be electoral regions in their own right, but nothing has been said about this in the proposal.

Additionally, the Van Dijk-Silos proposal suggests institutional adjustments to accommodate the mixed system. For example, the main polling station for each district will continue to exist for the district system, but an overarching 'main polling station of the constituency' will also be introduced for the new electoral regions to be introduced.

The Explanatory Memorandum must go into greater detail about the two systems since we are now considering a new hybrid system in this proposal. A large part of the explanation in general has to do with the ruling of the Constitutional Court, so in general not much news has been brought about the hybrid system to be introduced.

Why a hybrid system is chosen must be explained because it means a shift to another system that is apparently more just and more approaching the one person one vote system. van dijk-silos' proposal is of limited use, but it leaves a big problem, it creates a big problem about which she gives no clues.

The main question is how the 6 electoral regions should be determined. It seems very much that the government or the Ministry of the Interior must do this on the basis of a government decision and in this case a state decision.

That then becomes the politicians that have to make a decision with always party political motives. Will the legislature transfer this power to the executive? The character of the electoral legislation and the weight given to it in the list of laws – its amendment requires a qualified majority – means that it would be contrary to the intention of the legislature and the Constitution if the government were to change this division of electoral regions.

doing. This division must be directly included in the law.

There must be clear justification in the law why the clustering of certain constituencies has taken place and why in some cases not. The law must also clearly contain guidelines that indicate how seats should be reshuffled on the basis of migration figures.

A simple mathematical formula can be devised for this with a number of variables including the electoral population at the relevant moment and only 1 constant: the total number of seats per electoral region and ultimately the total of the number of seats per electoral region. For the fanfare that has been made with references to intellectual property rights, we must conclude that Van Dijk-Silos's proposal is disappointing and rather superficial and shows laziness on the part of the creator of the system.

She too quickly became euphoric with what she thought was a brilliant idea of ​​a hybrid system and stopped thinking about where she was conceptually ready to continue value-adding. It is an incomplete system and therefore does not contribute substantially to the discussion about a new electoral system, unfortunately.

the total number of seats per electoral region and ultimately also the total number of seats per electoral region. For the fanfare that has been made with references to intellectual property rights, we must conclude that Van Dijk-Silos's proposal is disappointing and rather superficial and shows laziness on the part of the creator of the system.

She too quickly became euphoric with what she thought was a brilliant idea of ​​a hybrid system and stopped thinking about where she was conceptually ready to continue value-adding. It is an incomplete system and therefore does not contribute substantially to the discussion about a new electoral system, unfortunately.

the total number of seats per electoral region and ultimately also the total number of seats per electoral region. For the fanfare that has been made with references to intellectual property rights, we must conclude that Van Dijk-Silos's proposal is disappointing and rather superficial and shows laziness on the part of the creator of the system.

She too quickly became euphoric with what she thought was a brilliant idea of ​​a hybrid system and stopped thinking about where she was conceptually ready to continue value-adding. It is an incomplete system and therefore does not contribute substantially to the discussion about a new electoral system, unfortunately.

For the fanfare that has been made with references to intellectual property rights, we must conclude that Van Dijk-Silos's proposal is disappointing and rather superficial and shows laziness on the part of the creator of the system. She too quickly became euphoric with what she thought was a brilliant idea of ​​a hybrid system and stopped thinking about where she was conceptually ready to continue value-adding.

It is an incomplete system and therefore does not contribute substantially to the discussion about a new electoral system, unfortunately. For the fanfare that has been made with references to intellectual property rights, we must conclude that Van Dijk-Silos's proposal is disappointing and rather superficial and shows laziness on the part of the creator of the system.

She too quickly became euphoric with what she thought was a brilliant idea of ​​a hybrid system and stopped thinking about where she was conceptually ready to continue value-adding. It is an incomplete system and therefore does not contribute substantially to the discussion about a new electoral system, unfortunately.

She too quickly became euphoric with what she thought was a brilliant idea of ​​a hybrid system and stopped thinking about where she was conceptually ready to continue value-adding. It is an incomplete system and therefore does not contribute substantially to the discussion about a new electoral system, unfortunately.

She too quickly became euphoric with what she thought was a brilliant idea of ​​a hybrid system and stopped thinking about where she was conceptually ready to continue value-adding. It is an incomplete system and therefore does not contribute substantially to the discussion about a new electoral system, unfortunately.

The character of the electoral legislation and the weight given to it in the list of laws – its amendment requires a qualified majority – means that it would be contrary to the intention of the legislature and the Constitution if the government were to change this division of electoral regions.