Erhürman returns law abolishing mixed voting to the TRNC parliament
President of the TRNC Tufan Erhürman has returned to the Republican Assembly a law amending elections and referendums that abolished mixed voting. The law has been sent for reconsideration.
Mixed voting is a system in which voters are not required to cast all their votes for a single party list and may distribute them among candidates from different parties. The amendment removed this option at two levels at once: in elections for members of parliament and in elections for members of municipal councils.
The law was adopted on 10 September at an extraordinary session of the Republican Assembly by a majority vote, with deputies from the ruling coalition voting in favour.
The president’s reasoned decision will be published on the parliament’s website within the day; until then, the grounds for the objections remain unknown.
The next elections in the TRNC are scheduled for 6 December: general and local elections will be held on the same day for the first time. The electoral calendar will begin on 7 October.
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