imperative mandate

The institution of imperative mandate has been rarely applied.

Some political scientists have argued an imperative mandate would limit the freedom of parliamentary deputies.

Selbert prefaced this with: "As an imperative mandate to the legislature...".

June 2008 the parliament failed to adopt the bill on restriction of privileges for deputies and introduction of imperative mandate.

Imperative mandate (provision in the Constitution of Ukraine)

Imperative mandate provisions were defined in the Constitution in articles Articles 78 and 81.

Imperative mandate is a political system in which parliamentary deputies can only enact policies in accordance with concretely transmitted preference by their electors.

The imperative mandate was banned by the royalist members of the French National Assembly of 1789 to block greater influence by the people.

In Ukraine, the imperative mandate provision of the Ukrainian Constitution banned party switching in Parliament from 2004 till 2010.

The Imperative mandate provisions had been the subject of criticism by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as being undemocratic till its end.

Imperative Mandate, Initiative and Referendum: Adopted in the Late Proposed New Charter for Los Angeles.

The leadership of the Local People's Congress represented the local congress at the People's Congress of the next level and has an imperative mandate.

The "imperative mandate" provision of Ukraine's Constitution came under strong criticism by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as being undemocratic.

Đinđić attempted to expel the DSS members from parliament, referring to the existence of imperative mandate that places all deputies under the control of the party elected to parliament.

The Assembly passed a resolution calling on all parties to disputation to respect the decision of Ukraine's Constitutional Court whilst criticizing Ukraine's Constitution Imperative mandate provisions.

After the cancellation of the Imperative Mandate on October 1, 2010 it became possible for 15 or more deputies to form a parliamentary faction (a lawmaker can join only one faction; the chairman and his two assistants cannot head factions of deputies).