The electoral college indicates a restricted group of people having same qualities and participant in an election. The members of this group can be indicated or elected. In this last case, the vote is indirect, because the college (of which the members are sometimes called Great Electors ) is the representative of the people having elected them.
According to the political systems, these representatives can not have for single mandate the participation in the election, but also make part of another organization or political entity. The majority of the countries created an electoral college for one or the other of the elections to a function or a political mandate.
Thus elected, these Great Electors would be wiser, less prone to the populism and would thus make a better choice than a Electorate broader.
Another direction
In Germany, the Great Elector was also the name given to Frederic Guillaume Ier de Brandebourg.
Elected bodies
Parliament
In a Bicameral system nonfederal, the Upper House is generally elected by Great Electors. It then tends to be more preserving than the Lower House. In France for example, the Sénat is elected by 150 000 Great Electors, who are the appointed , the general regional advisers and and delegates of the municipal councils.
Government
In Swiss, the Federal council (also called the Head of the State with seven heads because of its Collegial structure) is elected by an college electoral, named Assemblée federal and composed of the meeting of the National council and Conseil of the States.
Head of State
In addition, in several countries, the Great Electors appoint the Head of State:- in Germany, the federal president is elected by the indirect suffrage by the federal Assemblée ( Bundesversammlung ) made up for half of the deputies of the Bundestag and representatives elected by the Landtag E ;
- with the the United States, of the Great Electors indicate the president;
- in France, the first mandate of president of the fifth republic was allotted by a college of 80 000 Great Electors (parliamentary, general advisers and representatives of the municipal councils).
Crowned College
See also: Crowned College
Within the Catholic church exists one Crowned College made up of Cardinaux which assists the Pape in his decisions, ensures the government in the event of vacancy of this last and elects a new Pope after his death.
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