Word: scrutinous
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...They control a 53 per cent majority of the electorate, according to recent surveys, and by cooperation the left could capture a controlling majority in the 487-member National Assembly. But failure to form a solid coalition dooms the leftist parties to defeat. Because of the intricacies of the "scrutin majoritaire," the French electoral system, center and right parties could combine to beat out a divided left in the runoff elections...
...System. This week French voters will thankfully resume the simple system of balloting which sufficed them before the War. In the 1924 election they were mystified by the so-called scrutin de liste, a well meant but inexplicable procedure which was supposed to ensure by mathematical proportioning a greater representation of minority groups in Parliament...
...elective laws were then analyzed and the two systems scrutin d'arondisment and scrutin de listecompared. In connection with this topic, Gambetta's great work was mentioned, and some idea given of the excitement and difficulty of his position as a would be and partially successful reformer of the elective system. The practical working of the French government was illustrated by incidents from the lives of MacMahon, Thiers, Ferry, Grevy and others. Many practical comparisons were made between the French and American systems. Many questions were asked by different members of the society, all of which were answered...
FOREIGN.In the French Senate, yesterday, the bill providing for the scrutin de liste was passed...
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