They demand suffrage for all.

I want genuine universal suffrage!

The banner reads, I want genuine universal suffrage.

CDU intends to elect the European President by universal suffrage

PARIS France has now conducted its ninth presidential election under direct universal suffrage.

1945 Women's suffrage Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

They don t have the luxury of restricting suffrage to property owners, or to more educated citizens.

One objective of the demonstrators was to voice their desire to select Hong Kong's future leaders through universal suffrage.

After educated women in America helped fight for the abolition of slavery, they put female suffrage on the agenda.

3. Further notes the inauguration in 1999 of a national Government based on village elections by universal adult suffrage

There is universal suffrage for adults over 20 years of age, with a secret ballot for all elected offices.

Much in the remaking of Japan after 1945 is still to be admired democracy, women s suffrage, land reform, freedom of speech.

For example, Anthony Lam glued a banner on his car that read, Zhang Dejiang get lost, I want genuine universal suffrage!

China has yet to follow through on its second promise that Hong Kong would elect its chief executive by universal suffrage by 2017.

Equal rights for women not simply suffrage, but also working outside the home or living independently was still a radical idea in many countries.

Equal rights for women not simply suffrage, but also working outside the home or living independently was still a radical idea in many countries.

Citizens know by experience that democracy does not consist in universal suffrage alone, but also requires a public sphere that is equally open to all.

Twenty years after the European Parliament was elected by universal suffrage in 1979, the introduction of the euro marked a logical extension of the European dream.

But, despite its promise of universal suffrage, the Basic Law restricts democratic development during the first ten years after the handover of Hong Kong to China.

The very election by national suffrage of an executive provides the type of minimal consensus that India's faction riven parliaments have, sadly, never been able to cultivate.

In December 1992, Margaret Thatcher suggested in a speech in the House of Lords that, if all went well, Hong Kong could have universal suffrage by 2007.

In April 2004, China's legislators ruled out universal suffrage in Hong Kong's 2007 election of its chief executive, as well as for its 2008 Legislative Council election.

But when it comes to economic development, these fundamental rights are more important than other purely political aspects of democracy, such as universal suffrage and genuine political competition.

The French Revolution and the introduction of universal suffrage were aimed as much at ridding France of the corporation of judges as they were at getting rid of the nobility.

The best case would be if China agreed to universal suffrage no later than the 2011 and 2012 elections, gaining legitimacy in Hong Kong by backing reform of the political system.

The Hong Kong government could call for changes to increase the openness and fairness by which the Chief Executive is chosen, without abandoning its current method in favor of universal suffrage.

Universal suffrage, in order to be the sine qua non of democracy, is not enough and can actually become a tool of oppression as once said the republican philosopher Etienne Vacherot.

Demonstrators from the political party the League of Social Democrats nevertheless managed to hang a huge yellow banner calling for Genuine Universal Suffrage on Beacon Hill as a message to Zhang.

Elections with universal suffrage, combined with a relatively free press, meant that the succession became a public issue, debated in the media and by academics for months as Sheikh Jaber was dying.

For if the frustrations of ordinary Hong Kong citizens are allowed to fester without a genuine commitment by China to allow for universal suffrage by 2007, a far more serious eruption of social and political unrest beckons.

Behind much of the pro democracy campaign in Hong Kong is the Occupy Central With Love and Peace movement, whose organizers have threatened to shut down the financial district if Beijing does not grant authentic universal suffrage.

While the struggle for genuine universal suffrage on the political front is one way of defending the city's autonomy, a parallel cultural battle is taking place in which Hong Kongers attempt to redefine the city and its people's identity.

Yasir Arafat s death was followed by the choice of his successor in a direct election with universal suffrage, which was accompanied by Israel s decision one unique in the world to help, not hinder the democratic process in territories it occupies.

The executive council of 24 members was chosen by the Legislative Assembly from among the 83 candidates chosen by the departments on the basis of universal suffrage, and in this way ministers were made responsible to the representatives of the nation.

In April 2004, China's legislators ruled out universal suffrage in Hong Kong's 2007 election of its chief executive, as well as for its 2008 Legislative Council election. They acknowledged that under the city's special constitution, the Basic Law, these elections could be the first opportunities for the territory to choose its representatives according to the principle of one person, one vote.

Universal suffrage would give the government greater public support and legitimacy for its efforts to reach Hong Kong s economic objectives and tackle social challenges, such as the socioeconomic and generational divides in Hong Kong society. The government s political reform package, which proposed that candidates for chief executive, as the city's top leader is called, should be vetted by a nomination committee, was voted down in June 2015 by the Legislative Council.