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Recent content by Nanwe

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    What if De Gaulle made his own rival NATO structure in 1954?

    Not even, the EDC was explicitly integrated into the NATO structure by design (its commander in chief was SACEUR after all) and understood to be the third leg of the Western alliance (the other two being the UK and US). So an EDC would tie France way closer than any post-1956 (including IV...
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    Tbh I had never thought of it that way, but it's true we do use "un, -a" quite a bit. I personally love the Spoanish "lo" which is technically our only neuter word left, and you use it when you're referring to an abstract or collective concept "lo dicho" = "those things that were said" or "lo...
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    I assume you can either contact the Spanish Congress' Archives, they have digitalised all these data but not uploaded it to their website. But i got it from "Las Constituyentes de 1931: Unas elecciones de transición" by Javier Tussell.
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    What if De Gaulle made his own rival NATO structure in 1954?

    De Gaulle wasn't in power in 1954 - he was very much in the political wilderness.
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    I'm starting to understand why no one has bothered to map this/these elections properly. I mean, look at this (just for Barcelona (capital) constituency): That being said, the fact Franco's brother was elected under the ERC-led list is just *chef's kiss*.
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    So I quickly put together a map of the constituencies used for the 1931 election to the Constituent Cortes of the Second Republic. I also have the data on the results but I have no idea how to display it. Why? The weird mix of the electoral system (retaining the one used under the Restoration...
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    So, in the ecclesiastical provinces the electorate was formed by the archbishops and bishops (on their own behalf) and the cathedral chapters (who elected a delegate to vote on their behalf 15 days before the actual election). This meant that typically the electorate was about 8 people. The...
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    The thing is that the Reatoratiin Senate had were nominated members (for lifetime appointments by the Monarch on the advice of the Cabinet), as well as these members who were entitled to seat in the Senate, and the elected ones. Well, they weren’t exactly university seats but of the university...
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    Spanish uses the very cumbersome formula of "member by its own right" (senador por derecho propio), which isn't great either
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    As for the Senate: The results were 116 elected liberals, 27 conservatives, 12 Cuban Unionists (mostly Liberals), four dissident conservatives (followers of Romero Robledo), four possibilist republicans (followers of Emilio Castelar), 3 Puertorican Unconditionals (2 liberals and one...
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    So this came out of the rabbit hole of the recently failed self-coup in South Korea, basically running with the idea that a large number of impeached Presidents would see some sort of constitutional revision leading to a parliamentary system, and from there I thought, "Why not SNTV" and so, here...
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    Max's election maps and assorted others

    The Law of Thirds is also quite similar to the system used for the Spanish multi-member constituencies at the same time. Which is interesting because it shows that already back then lawmakers were worries of the impact of majoritarian systems. Also it’s interesting to see the influence of...
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    It must have been in the thousands at most. However, this remained controversial: The 1876 Constitution allowed for partial freedom of religion, as non-Catholics were entitled to their religion and to practice it freely in private but not in public. Yet this was very controversial for the right...
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    Thanks! Just takes me some time, as I’m also drafting the entries for the ejections for the Spanish Wikipedia. You’re right about the dark tones though, I’m still playing with it anyway, I’ll see what I can do, probably just add extra shades in the generator and remove the last one (or two)
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    Nanwe's Maps and Graphics Thread

    To be honest they’d likely explode because they would have lost the 1890 local and provincial elections and thus losing much needed jobs for the boys and access to public funds for totally legitimate uses. But of course under the system that couldn’t be fully allowed because, well, most...
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