Majoritarian

The process of the formation of nation states everywhere, including in Europe and North America, has been an extraordinarily violent, exclusionary, and majoritarian movement.

Welcoming OIC’s statement in this regard, the spokesperson noted that terrifying rise in Islamophobia in India was consequence of majoritarian Hindutva agenda and anti-Muslim rife in Indian politics.

His companions share his vexation that the world around them is crumbling under the strain of the BJP’s Hindu majoritarian politics.

Majoritarian politics has been divisive and has made deep inroads of ‘othering’ into the collective psyche.

Critics of reform assert that counter-majoritarian institutions are essential toliberal democracy.

He emphasised that until Nigeria takes into proper cognisance, its environmental peculiarities, the search for majoritarian democracy would continue to encourage maiming, killing, and making widows and widowers out of Nigerian politics.

In his second lecture, entitled In Praise of Politics, Lord Sumption argues that although majority rule is a basic principle of democracy, majoritarian decision-making is only enough to authorise state action, it is not enough to make them legitimate.

Levan Tarkhnishvili, the majoritarian candidate from European Georgia party and also the former CEC chairman, expressed doubts about the protocols issued by the district commission concerning the deadline for reviewing complaints.

Regarding the other seven majoritarian districts, the exit poll says second-round runoffs will be held in all.

They find themselves constrained to conform to the majoritarian Left politics.

This idea of subversion of a majoritarian logic of nationalism that has no consonance with humanity and people’s lives and culture is what reverberates through the words of this deeply sensitive author.

We do not live in, nor do we aspire to be, a majoritarian society because the minority would be crushed.

We have conducted many meetings in every district, in every town, and the attitudes we saw towards our party gives us the confidence to say that we will secure victory in the first round in all 30 majoritarian districts.

Critics of the government hold that it seeks to establish a majoritarian State, in which minorities, especially Muslims, will be treated as second-class citizens.

Last August, Hanauer argued in a commentary on Politico that Democrats needed to move the “center” to the left, arguing that the true political center is a “majoritarian” center where most of the people are.

The idea of India came to be seen as the bulwark that would automatically check the majoritarian impulse.

He became a sensation overnight in March when he began to receive death threats for criticising the Indian government’s majoritarian ways and politics centred on belligerent nationalism in the video, Patriotism and Government.

Such appeals have placed Mr. Orban in the vanguard of populist leaders, building what he calls an “illiberal democracy,” one of majoritarian rule and winner-take-all politics.

The thread that binds these crimes is the sense of invincibility that a majoritarian regime has granted its personnel and supporters.

We could even lengthen the session by three days so that the time available for majoritarian lawmaking would remain unchanged.