Let me ask again will the Upper Federal Level have 50TC MPs and 50GC MPs originating from votes cast island wise? In that case all 100 MPs can originate from the south state? How will the necessary minimum votes be achieved from each state to pass a law?
ok vp, please be patient, i will explain again, it is really quite simple but you must put your pre-assumptions aside:
1. all Electoral Ridings have approx. the same number of voters.
2. the island is divided into (50) Electoral Ridings.
3. each voter chooses one Representative from two slates, to elect a Turkish Cypriot Representative and a Greek Cypriot Representative, for the Upper House.
...thus, all Cypriots have representation, as Cypriots, without discrimination or distinction.
the Cypriot Constituencies represent themselves (and collect taxes) within their Territorial Jurisdictions, on matters which effect their daily lives, education, health, social services and Civil Courts; they are a second level of Government. they represent (and act for) their electors as Persons (as Greeks/Turks) within the criteria that the Federal Legislature sets for all its Citizens as Individuals (as Human Beings). there is a separation of power, Constituencies do not have a direct vote at the Federal Level, and the Federal Government cannot interfere with the way Constituent states apply themselves toward these aims.
3. the legislature for the federal government is Bicameral, it is the Upper House that provides leadership, having seats equally divided among Turkish and Greek representatives where a majority of seats must be won by a leader who becomes President. and a Lower House which is elected by Population, as Independants representing sober second thinking, voting by consensus through a Speaker, they would also sit in Government Committees. (slight shades of the Annan plan)
4. as such, a voter will vote thricely (voting once), from three seperate slates, so that the best representatives are elected by and for the voter's riding, they will vote for their Turkish Cypriot Representative and their Greek Cypriot Representative, as well as their Independant. Representative. (shades of the guy or was it the guy before that)
...do the math (for the Upper and Lower House), then assume larger populations and a different demographic, do the math again...
...then consider how over time a representative's experience and expertise can grow, and consider how this changing population is open to a representation in the future which will sustain Turkish and Greek identities by civic leaders of neither ethnicity.
5. the Turkish constituent state, and the Greek constituent state shall be equal, in that they each represent themselves as Persons in a National Assembly where their electorate is identified by their residence, and in that they obtain their Charter meeting the same criteria determined by the federal government which retains its Sovereignty while assigning territorial Jurisdiction.
...try reading these articles again, i hope my explanation makes them clearer for you; do not hesitate to ask more questions, i welcome the discussion.
