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Makarios Droushiotis supports cross voting system

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Postby YFred » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:55 pm

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YFred wrote:All Liars. When you speak the truth you have nothing to fear.

:lol:

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=22741

If I told you once I told you a thousand times, when I left Cyprus. You know it. I even told you what your friendly roc customs man told me.

Stanatheman.


Rather a strange time to leave Cyprus? ... 1972?
What was the motive?

Enclaves? Does it ring a bell?
Although I don't remeber TMT firing at me as I was eacaping from Lurucina.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


So you happily put up with "enclaves" for nine years and then just ... left? :roll:

Rather let Mummy Turkey down then didn't you? ... abandoning your post!

Not even the Turks use 14 year old soldiers, dear woman. God give me patience.
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Postby insan » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:58 pm

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-mikkie2- wrote:"Do you know what the word proportional means? From the way you talk is seems that you don't."

Perhaps this may help you Piratis. There are several forms of proprtional representation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportion ... esentation

And I stated " a form of proportional representation " as that is exactly what it is so please don't insult my intelligence.

The form being propsed is based on a cross-voting principle weighted according to the size of each community. Now I think your problem is that the weighting is 66:33 instead of 80:20 or 75:25

I don't think this is a racist principle. I think its only fair that TC's will have a major say in the who the TC VP is just as it is fair that the GC's have the major say in who the GC President is.

I think you need to think about what is best for Cyprus as a whole, rather than what is best for one community over the other. Our history is a mess and you can't jump from a mess to ideal in one step.


Let's try to apply this weighted cross voting proposal on a possible outcome.

TCs have 3 candidates for presidency. TCs have 150.000(75%) voters and GCs 600.000(25%) voters. TC candidates for presidency r A, B, and C.

A recieved 90.000 votes from TCs and 20.000 votes from GCs.

B recieved 40.000 votes from TCs and 500.000 votes from GCs.

C recieved 20.000 votes from TCs and 80.000 votes from GCs.

Who would win the presidency elections according to the proposed weighted cross voting method? It seems to me that A should win because recieved majority of the votes of TCs. On the other hand it seems that presidency of A is against the will of overwhelming majority of GCs... So who should win the presidency? :?


Ok. I'll try to base the number of voters on percentages.

A recieved 45% out of 75% of TC votes and 6% votes out of 25% of GC votes. Total of 51% out of 100%.

B recieved 20% out of 75% of TC votes and 18% votes out of 25% of GC votes. Total 38% out of 100%.

C recieved 10% out of 75% of TC votes and 1% votes out of 25% of GC votes. Total 11% of 100%.

As it is seen, despite it is against the will of overwhelming majority of GCs, A wins TC presidency.


So, anyone else supporting weighted cross voting system and tell us abt merits/possible deadlocks and how it could be overcome? Or u wanna pursue the blind fight? :lol:
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Postby Piratis » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:58 pm

Bananiot wrote:Piratis, you make me laugh. At least have the decency to make youself public and then decide who is real and who is fake. Perhaps this Saturday morning I can take you over to our enemy's side and introduce you to some real TC's who have bore the brunt of TMT's menice but stood their ground and are still battling away, when your protege was secretly meeting with the Denktash's plotting the perpetuation of the Turkish army in Cyprus.

Your simplistic questions should be addressed to those that have accepted that the solution we are seeking is bizonal, bicommunal federation with political equality as defined by the relevent resolutions of the UN. Perhaps you do not like this but here you are in the minority, I am afraid, and again, by your own logic, the truth is just a matter of statistics, so the majority is correct. I cannot really help you.

I do not know what the crazy woman is doing here but perhaps she can answer her own question by pondering on the reasons we accepted federation when up to 1974 anyone who dared mentioned the dreaded word was sent to hell.


In the past I have shown many times how a BBF can be perfectly acceptable if it has the right content. BBF does not require rotating presidencies or anything of that sort. Only a small minority of Cypriots would accept a "BBF" with the kind of content that you would, and this was shown in the most clear and direct way with the referendum.

So I ask you again: Are the "solutions" you accept just and fair? It is a very simple question and I am sure you can answer it with a "yes" or a "no". So why are you afraid to do so?

And I don't doubt that there are real TC who have principles and have stood their ground against TMT. But many of your friends, like Halil, Insan and many others, are people that have fully adopted the TMT position and want as much division, separation and gains on our expense as possible. If it was up to them to "solve" the problem by having "trnc" recognized tomorrow non of these people would hesitate.
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Postby Oracle » Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:00 pm

YFred wrote:
Oracle wrote:
YFred wrote:
Oracle wrote:
YFred wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
YFred wrote:All Liars. When you speak the truth you have nothing to fear.

:lol:

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=22741

If I told you once I told you a thousand times, when I left Cyprus. You know it. I even told you what your friendly roc customs man told me.

Stanatheman.


Rather a strange time to leave Cyprus? ... 1972?
What was the motive?

Enclaves? Does it ring a bell?
Although I don't remeber TMT firing at me as I was eacaping from Lurucina.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


So you happily put up with "enclaves" for nine years and then just ... left? :roll:

Rather let Mummy Turkey down then didn't you? ... abandoning your post!

Not even the Turks use 14 year old soldiers, dear woman. God give me patience.


They just saw you all as numbers fodder, regardless of age. So, what actually was the motive for leaving in 1972 (probably the year of least migrations :wink: )?
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Postby insan » Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:09 pm

Piratis wrote:
Bananiot wrote:Piratis, you make me laugh. At least have the decency to make youself public and then decide who is real and who is fake. Perhaps this Saturday morning I can take you over to our enemy's side and introduce you to some real TC's who have bore the brunt of TMT's menice but stood their ground and are still battling away, when your protege was secretly meeting with the Denktash's plotting the perpetuation of the Turkish army in Cyprus.

Your simplistic questions should be addressed to those that have accepted that the solution we are seeking is bizonal, bicommunal federation with political equality as defined by the relevent resolutions of the UN. Perhaps you do not like this but here you are in the minority, I am afraid, and again, by your own logic, the truth is just a matter of statistics, so the majority is correct. I cannot really help you.

I do not know what the crazy woman is doing here but perhaps she can answer her own question by pondering on the reasons we accepted federation when up to 1974 anyone who dared mentioned the dreaded word was sent to hell.


In the past I have shown many times how a BBF can be perfectly acceptable if it has the right content. BBF does not require rotating presidencies or anything of that sort. Only a small minority of Cypriots would accept a "BBF" with the kind of content that you would, and this was shown in the most clear and direct way with the referendum.

So I ask you again: Are the "solutions" you accept just and fair? It is a very simple question and I am sure you can answer it with a "yes" or a "no". So why are you afraid to do so?

And I don't doubt that there are real TC who have principles and have stood their ground against TMT. But many of your friends, like Halil, Insan and many others, are people that have fully adopted the TMT position and want as much division, separation and gains on our expense as possible. If it was up to them to "solve" the problem by having "trnc" recognized tomorrow non of these people would hesitate.


The TCs that stood against some wrong actions of some high ranked members of TMT had nothing to do with being the "real TCs" and accepting ur minority status proposal. Some TCs including me still have been critisizing some actions of some high ranked members of TMT, to the contrary of ur behaviour that idolize EOKA despite the fact it killed many supposedly "traitor" GCs. So Piratis, don't mix ur nuts with our pirillis.
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Postby YFred » Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:09 pm

Oracle wrote:
YFred wrote:
Oracle wrote:
YFred wrote:
Oracle wrote:
YFred wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
YFred wrote:All Liars. When you speak the truth you have nothing to fear.

:lol:

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=22741

If I told you once I told you a thousand times, when I left Cyprus. You know it. I even told you what your friendly roc customs man told me.

Stanatheman.


Rather a strange time to leave Cyprus? ... 1972?
What was the motive?

Enclaves? Does it ring a bell?
Although I don't remeber TMT firing at me as I was eacaping from Lurucina.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


So you happily put up with "enclaves" for nine years and then just ... left? :roll:

Rather let Mummy Turkey down then didn't you? ... abandoning your post!

Not even the Turks use 14 year old soldiers, dear woman. God give me patience.


They just saw you all as numbers fodder, regardless of age. So, what actually was the motive for leaving in 1972 (probably the year of least migrations :wink: )?

It was ethnic cleansing of the best kind, looked very democratic and all that. Butter wouldn't melt in your mouths.
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Postby Oracle » Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:24 pm

YFred wrote:
Oracle wrote:
YFred wrote:
Oracle wrote:
YFred wrote:
Oracle wrote:
YFred wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
YFred wrote:All Liars. When you speak the truth you have nothing to fear.

:lol:

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=22741

If I told you once I told you a thousand times, when I left Cyprus. You know it. I even told you what your friendly roc customs man told me.

Stanatheman.


Rather a strange time to leave Cyprus? ... 1972?
What was the motive?

Enclaves? Does it ring a bell?
Although I don't remeber TMT firing at me as I was eacaping from Lurucina.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


So you happily put up with "enclaves" for nine years and then just ... left? :roll:

Rather let Mummy Turkey down then didn't you? ... abandoning your post!

Not even the Turks use 14 year old soldiers, dear woman. God give me patience.


They just saw you all as numbers fodder, regardless of age. So, what actually was the motive for leaving in 1972 (probably the year of least migrations :wink: )?

It was ethnic cleansing of the best kind, looked very democratic and all that. Butter wouldn't melt in your mouths.


Really? Even in 1972? Ethnic cleansing on the grand scale of ONE TC family? After 9 years of "enclaves"?

Don't lie ... what were the motives for leaving at the most peaceful of times?

Just say if you'd rather not tell us, but don't make stuff up or we will keep probing ....
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Postby Piratis » Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:43 pm

insan wrote:
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Bananiot wrote:Piratis, you make me laugh. At least have the decency to make youself public and then decide who is real and who is fake. Perhaps this Saturday morning I can take you over to our enemy's side and introduce you to some real TC's who have bore the brunt of TMT's menice but stood their ground and are still battling away, when your protege was secretly meeting with the Denktash's plotting the perpetuation of the Turkish army in Cyprus.

Your simplistic questions should be addressed to those that have accepted that the solution we are seeking is bizonal, bicommunal federation with political equality as defined by the relevent resolutions of the UN. Perhaps you do not like this but here you are in the minority, I am afraid, and again, by your own logic, the truth is just a matter of statistics, so the majority is correct. I cannot really help you.

I do not know what the crazy woman is doing here but perhaps she can answer her own question by pondering on the reasons we accepted federation when up to 1974 anyone who dared mentioned the dreaded word was sent to hell.


In the past I have shown many times how a BBF can be perfectly acceptable if it has the right content. BBF does not require rotating presidencies or anything of that sort. Only a small minority of Cypriots would accept a "BBF" with the kind of content that you would, and this was shown in the most clear and direct way with the referendum.

So I ask you again: Are the "solutions" you accept just and fair? It is a very simple question and I am sure you can answer it with a "yes" or a "no". So why are you afraid to do so?

And I don't doubt that there are real TC who have principles and have stood their ground against TMT. But many of your friends, like Halil, Insan and many others, are people that have fully adopted the TMT position and want as much division, separation and gains on our expense as possible. If it was up to them to "solve" the problem by having "trnc" recognized tomorrow non of these people would hesitate.


The TCs that stood against some wrong actions of some high ranked members of TMT had nothing to do with being the "real TCs" and accepting ur minority status proposal. Some TCs including me still have been critisizing some actions of some high ranked members of TMT, to the contrary of ur behaviour that idolize EOKA despite the fact it killed many supposedly "traitor" GCs. So Piratis, don't mix ur nuts with our pirillis.


Insan, I do not idolize EOKA. What we had in the 50s was a revolution of the Cypriot people for freedom, and in revolutions rarely is everything well planned and organized. If some EOKA member killed a person who was not a traitor then I have no problem to accept that as a mistake. In general however I 100% agree with the cause of EOKA: The freedom of Cyprus from foreign Imperialists so the Cypriot people can democratically decide the destiny of their own island among legitimate options, such as the union of Cyprus with the rest of Greece.

Now you tell me, did you disagree with the cause of TMT: The partition of Cyprus along with the required ethnic cleansing? Because when Bananiot is talking about people who "stood against TMT" this is what he means. Not merely people who maybe disagreed with some of the tactics of some people within TMT.

While Bananiot might have no problem to be friends with people like you, personally I never make any friendships with people that do not respect my human and democratic rights. Most of us, unlike Bananiot, are not born to be "good slaves". This is why an unjust and unfair solution will never work in Cyprus. The Cypriot people will sooner or later revolt against their oppressors seeking their human and democratic rights. (and of course the Bananiots would then join the Imperialists and blame the Cypriot people for this :roll:)
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Postby YFred » Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:44 pm

Oracle wrote:
YFred wrote:
Oracle wrote:
YFred wrote:
Oracle wrote:
YFred wrote:
Oracle wrote:
YFred wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
YFred wrote:All Liars. When you speak the truth you have nothing to fear.

:lol:

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=22741

If I told you once I told you a thousand times, when I left Cyprus. You know it. I even told you what your friendly roc customs man told me.

Stanatheman.


Rather a strange time to leave Cyprus? ... 1972?
What was the motive?

Enclaves? Does it ring a bell?
Although I don't remeber TMT firing at me as I was eacaping from Lurucina.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


So you happily put up with "enclaves" for nine years and then just ... left? :roll:

Rather let Mummy Turkey down then didn't you? ... abandoning your post!

Not even the Turks use 14 year old soldiers, dear woman. God give me patience.


They just saw you all as numbers fodder, regardless of age. So, what actually was the motive for leaving in 1972 (probably the year of least migrations :wink: )?

It was ethnic cleansing of the best kind, looked very democratic and all that. Butter wouldn't melt in your mouths.


Really? Even in 1972? Ethnic cleansing on the grand scale of ONE TC family? After 9 years of "enclaves"?

Don't lie ... what were the motives for leaving at the most peaceful of times?

Just say if you'd rather not tell us, but don't make stuff up or we will keep probing ....

Where were you in 1972?
There was quite a few TCs in the plane, I can assure you, I was not the only one.
Were the TCs very happy with their life in TC land?
Were there lots of hope and opporotunities to make a life?
Economic suffocation did not start in 1974, it started in 1963.
You can probe all you like, I am ready, shall I take my clothes off? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Which planet did you come from, Uranus?
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Postby -mikkie2- » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:44 am

Piratis wrote:
-mikkie2- wrote:"Do you know what the word proportional means? From the way you talk is seems that you don't."

Perhaps this may help you Piratis. There are several forms of proprtional representation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportion ... esentation

And I stated " a form of proportional representation " as that is exactly what it is so please don't insult my intelligence.

The form being propsed is based on a cross-voting principle weighted according to the size of each community. Now I think your problem is that the weighting is 66:33 instead of 80:20 or 75:25

I don't think this is a racist principle. I think its only fair that TC's will have a major say in the who the TC VP is just as it is fair that the GC's have the major say in who the GC President is.

I think you need to think about what is best for Cyprus as a whole, rather than what is best for one community over the other. Our history is a mess and you can't jump from a mess to ideal in one step.


You are insulting your own intelligence because you don't seem to understand what is written in the link you gave to me:

Proportional representation (PR), sometimes referred to as full representation, is a category of electoral formula aimed at securing a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (grouped by a certain measure) obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive (usually in legislative assemblies).


So if a party receives 10% of the votes it should receive 10% of the seats. This is what proportional representation means.

Also, the terms "President" and "Vice President" are there to mislead. If what we will have is rotating presidency then the TC will be the president for 1/3rd of the time. This means that for 1/3rd of time Cyprus will be ruled by somebody who does not have the popular support. "Majority rules" is an integral part of any democratic system, but not in the one proposed here. Therefore such system does not qualify as democratic, let alone to offer proportional representation.


Piratis. Again you are putting words into my mouth. I said a FORM of PR not PR per se.

I used the term VP in the TC case as majority of the time he will be a VP. I wasn't trying to mislead.

Now getting down to the nitty gritty, you have the TC's voting for their president and the GC's voting for theirs. They will then run the rotating presidency where the GC will be president for lets say for arguments sake, 3 years and the TC for 2 years. Surely, if each community has a say in who will be president of either community is a good thing. And its a reverse proportionality principle being used here, which is why I say it is a FORM of PR. But anyway, you chose to read into it what you will.

It may not be ideal but it is a hell of a lot better than having the TC's voting exclusively for the TC candidtaes and the GC's for the GC candidate or even worse, doing what Talat proposes.

Ideally, it would be best to have a single electoral list with a 1 man 1 vote system but unfortunately, the Cypriot political system in a unified Cyprus will have to go through a process of evolution before it matures into something better. I just don't think it is realistic to do it all in one go.
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