Historic electoral reform formally gazetted
(CNS): Government ordered the extraordinary gazette Wednesday of the Single Member Electoral Districts Boundaries Order, 2015. The historic order will pave the way for the significant and fundamental change to the country’s electoral system and equity in voting by the 2017 general election. “This is one of the most significant constitutional and electoral changes this country has ever made,” the premier said today as the gazette was posted.
The Cayman Islands is to be divided into 19 single member constituencies, where the political representatives will be returned to the Legislative Assembly in May 2017 for the first time in a ‘one man, one vote’ system.
The new political landscape is based on the recommendations of the in their report this year. Officials said the independent exercise, which was commissioned by government late last year, was conducted in line with the Constitution. Lawmakers accepted the EBC’s recommendations in the October 2015 sitting of the Legislative Assembly.
New legislation is expected to go before the LA next year to allow the Elections Office to be brought in line with the Commission’s report. These new regulations are set to be in place before the 2017 elections in order for the office to carry out the next general election under the new system and what promises to be a very interesting national ballot.
The gazette will be published by government in the next few days.
This has now overturned the Historic First National Referendum, which was questionable, but binding!.
What are the future implications there for other referenda?
JJ is that you? You cant have a “binding” referendum to do nothing! Parliament has the last say unless there is a referendum to take some positive action which is binding eg people initiated or stated to be binding voluntarily by the Gov.
Mac is that you? you know you set the rules so that it would fail even though the people spoke about 2 to 1 in favor.
Inequality for all!
I hope you are saying that still come ten years from now.
If the people of the lesser districts deserve more representation than the rest of us, they deserve the dump too.