| | UK Liberal Democrats in Europe: Newsletter January 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The Parliament’s Institutional Affairs Committee has now appointed a new rapporteur who’s drawing up a document calling for a new system based on the one central principle of proportionality, but allowing for national differences, such as minimum threshholds, preferential voting and national or regional constituencies. |
 | | The proposed means of allocating seats tends to favour the larger parties, and voters could be confused by having to vote one way in the Euro-election, and a different way for the Scottish or Welsh assemblies, possibly on the same day. |
 | | Under STV constituencies each have between three and five seats, depending on size, and the parties propose a list per constituency. |
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