direct universal suffrage

The Mayor is elected by direct universal suffrage in a majority system.

The president is elected by direct universal suffrage for a 5-year term, renewable twice.

The constitutional commission had also agreed that the country's President should be elected by direct universal suffrage.

It was also the first presidential election by direct universal suffrage since the Second Republic in 1848.

It is thanks to direct universal suffrage that we can rightfully speak on behalf of all Europeans.

The 73 councillors are elected by direct universal suffrage in a majority system and have a mandate of four years.

The president, like the prime minister, is elected by direct universal suffrage for a five-year term and can be re-elected.

In particular, the Soviet Constitution of 1936 guaranteed direct universal suffrage with the secret ballot.

The third European Parliament election by direct universal suffrage, took place in June 1989.

In an ever closer union, genuine democratic legitimacy will always be visible in this House which is elected by direct universal suffrage.

The regular election of representatives by citizens through free, fair and secret direct universal suffrage is most certainly the characteristic of truly democratic power.

The new constitution, proclaiming a democratic republic, direct universal suffrage and the separation of powers, was promulgated on 4 November.

Elections are held through direct universal suffrage, voting is compulsory for citizens age eighteen through seventy.

Thereafter the President was to be elected by direct universal suffrage for the first time since Louis Napoleon in 1848.

The members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected by direct universal suffrage, with each state returning at least two.

The members of a cabildo are elected by direct universal suffrage by the Spanish citizens of each island.

As with elections to the Corps législatif, members of the Tribunat were not elected by direct universal suffrage.

It consists of fifteen members, elected by direct universal suffrage to four-year terms, and a Mayor, selected by the members.

Democracy is strengthened by extending the powers of the European Parliament, the only institution elected by direct universal suffrage.

Wallonia has a unicameral parliament with 75 members elected for five years by direct universal suffrage, and a government responsible in front of the parliament.

Since 1988, the 577 deputies are elected by the direct universal suffrage with a two-round system by constituency, for a five-year mandate, subject to dissolution.

The 1965 French presidential election was the first presidential election by direct universal suffrage of the Fifth Republic.

The Assembly is composed of ninety deputies elected by direct universal suffrage every five years by voters in Sicily.

The president of the republic is elected to a five-year term by direct universal suffrage and a secret ballot, and may hold up to two consecutive terms.

His 1962 reform to have the president elected by direct universal suffrage (instead of being elected by deputies and senators) further increased his authority.