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[pantelis]

Alexandre,

provides for a House of Deputies where MPs will be elected according to the "One Man One Vote principle".

How a member of this “House of Deputies” could be elected by both TC and GC votes?

[Alexandros Lordos]

Alexandre,

provides for a House of Deputies where MPs will be elected according to the "One Man One Vote principle".

How a member of this “House of Deputies” could be elected by both TC and GC votes?

Only to the extent that GCs cross-reside in the north or TCs cross-reside in the south. But that was not my point. The GC and the TC deputies will be voting together, according to proportional representation, on issues of joint concern. Isn't that what you wanted?

[pantelis]

Isn't that what you wanted?

No, Alexandre.
I would like to see GCs and TCs voting for the same political party, for the same candidate. Only then, the two communities would be able to share the island equally as equals. Everything else, are simply divisive schemes, leading to hatred, mistrust and partition, not unification.
They designed the 1960 constitution in a divisive manner and we have seen the results. Now they are trying to push down our throats a similar but more separatist deal, with the glorified Annan plan. Why? Is it because they want us to fail again? We cannot afford any new experiments and political systems that they wouldn’t dare apply in their own countries. They fought civil wars, to keep their countries whole, haven’t they? Why don’t they apply their Annan plan in Iraq or in Turkey, or in Palestine?

[Alexandros Lordos]

Isn't that what you wanted?

No, Alexandre.
I would like to see GCs and TCs voting for the same political party, for the same candidate. Only then, the two communities would be able to share the island equally as equals.

Panteli,

I would love to see this happen, but as you yourself say in the title of this thread, we have to take it one step at a time ... cross-voting with specific safeguard formulas can indeed be such a first step, until the two can become one again.

If however we try to achieve "the perfect solution" from the first step, all we will achieve is the cementing of partition - because the critical factor of trust is missing.