Should president be chosen from the assembly or the peoples themselves?

Question

Some countrys have the rule for direct election of president through the peoples of the country and some have the rule for choosen by assembly or senate members. What will you preffer, that what should be the way for that?

Answer 1

It should be by the people.

Assemblies and senates are made up of people ~ that opens the door for the people being heard less and less as the assembly/senate pushes forward their own agenda.

Answer 2

I don't know why does India has a president.....

All administrative powers lies with the Prime Minister of India.

Then why does the government/constitution spoils the tax payers money by appointing a person as President (a man without any real powers) to provide him all the amenities.

I believe this loss making system should be stopped because there is no reason to continue with it.

We are here build a better & efficient  nation & when there is something in constitution which is no longer required it should be phased out.

Answer 3

The President  is  the visiting card  or the face of the nation,every one in the world will see the nation thorugh its top posted person .So it should be most importent issue in a nation that they should choose their president who can represnt the whole to the world and i strongly believe that this cant be done with the present system because the voters only

see their political benefits and logics not the best person .

Public should choose their president by themselve.

Answer 4

Direct Election Of President by the Peoples of the Country

Answer 5

hey guys its the British govt framed the constitution at 1935 to give diarchey that is to show that Indians also have right to vote for the country at that time British govt gave rights to m.l.a's,those who got sir,and the m.p's if the govt decides to remove Mal's from the list all the drama will end!

Answer 6

That may not be the right thing to do since

    1.  The president is only a rubber stamp as per the constitution.

    2.  Wasting money on a person who will not have any say in running he country will be foolish.

    3.  Net users are mostly intelligent but voters are silly, Be truthful- how many of us would go to vote for presidential elections if someone like Pratibha Patil( an unknown person) was to be elected? Apart from Dr Kalam, would we really care who the president was to be?

Answer 7

there is no relevance of having people being directly elected to the post of president as there would be no recognition as well as relevance to this merely symbolic post

Answer 8

What is democracy? by the people and for the people isn'i it?

But not by proxy of the people! Then if we are democratic really then we must elect our own president.

Answer 9

The Constitution Of India has been designed by very experienced people. It gives each citizen of India, the right to vote. We elect our government and the candidates chosen by us constitute the assembly. So it it always the "People Of India" who choose the President , but indirectly. So i am in strong favor of choosing the President by the members of assembly.

Answer 10

we have the right to select our own president and we will prefer that because he is the one who has the responsibility of taking a country to a developed path. the assembly has atmost 500 members but the poulation of a country is much much more than that and the whole public can never misjudge such an important decision and they will vote the right one.

Answer 11

in india president is elected by the representative of people i.e. mp & mla's,   but my personal opinion is he should elected by the public, so he will be directly responsible to people.

Answer 12

2nd is not practically possible.

Answer 13

It is better to chose the president from the assembly as this is a very responsible post and an optimistic and brave person deserve the post. Election of president by the people will not be fruitful as people don't have complete idea about the chosen persons.

                                 The post of president must be given to an experience member who has the full knowledge of indian politics.

Answer 14

It should be elected by the people themselves because by that people have different opinion for them. so it is better to choose by the people.

Answer 15

In Big countries like India , US electing the president by direct vote may not be possible.In US  they follow the same system like ours , the only difference is that the tenure of the representatives is same as that of president.People only select the representative not the president.But the representatives do not have their own good and bad . They only represent the first citizen . There during to elect president they won't look in which caste or religion the representative is . They review the president only.We can go for that .

Also the candidate for the president is also selected by voting.Not through money laundering.Hopeful candidates in the two big parties GOP and democrats has to seek vote from party workers to represent the party in the election .

This is the thing we need here

Answer 16

Even though the arguments presented are sensible, the President as the first citizen should be elected by the people and have more powers. A political system like the one used by USA should be used,

Answer 17

President of India post is just like Governors of State Assemblies.

1.To monitor the State government workings and as a representative of Central government ,Governor is nominated.

2.With the same analogy "Chief Governor" or President should only be nominated. But by whom and what is the work for him.? If Central government is to be monitored, to whom the reports should go?

Simply this dummy post is to be scrapped immediately.In it's place Speaker of Lok Shaba may be called as President and Speaker of Rajya Shaba as Vice President [as is today].

For a dummy post with an inked rubber stamp on hand why such a fuzz.

Answer 18

Not needed to change the law, but the condition is that Bhairon Singh Sekhawat should win. If it is Congress candidate, then law should be changed for the benefit of elites.

Answer 19

It is difficult to answer this question. let us assume that India had a direct election procedure. imagine what would happen if famous people like Himesh Reshammiya or Shah Rukh Khan contest. It will be like what happens in reality shows. India has a great number of illiterate people and most of them will not know how to distinguish between a good leader and a bad one.

  secondly, India has a great population and in the assembly elections it is difficult to translate the wish of majority by a single vote of a senate member.

i think it should be mixture of both.only if we could have a say which will not be disastrous.

Answer 20

If your question concerns India, then it really does not matter whether the people elect or parlimentarians. The reason is suppose if we have a parlimentary system where the head of government is President instead of Prime Minister, then again people simply vote and elect a particular party or a group for power. In that case eventually the head of the government is elected by that party or group.

Therefore, now we have two elections but only one government. Which means it is again the parlimentarians who elect the head of the government any way. so what is the difference. Why do not people make best out of what they have been given during General Elections?

If they make only right choices as their candidates in parliament we would be having a right choice of a President any way.

Answer 21

i think president should be choosen by the people  but only by educated people

Answer 22

from the assembly

Answer 23

I firmly believe that it is time to end the electoral college and let the people (by actual, popular vote) choose the president.  The current system was put into place because of the difficulty in collecting election results in a timely manner.  Obviously, that is no longer an issue.

One of the biggest complaints heard in an election year is "why should I vote when my vote doesn't really count".  This attitude causes voter apathy and low turn out which could both be eliminated if we actually used the popular vote instead of the electoral college.

Answer 24

No because the President is only the dejure head of the government, but I think that the people should get to elect the Prime Minister who is the defacto head.

Answer 25

Definitely not, in India the presidents are like rubber stamps with no power and for electing them we cant spend huge amount of money.

Answer 26

SS LC (10Th) 18 to 60year peoples

Answer 27

the ans is definately a big NO!

in a country like ours where politics persists there is no way the president be chosen by the people!

when the state or regional elections themselves show the result of poor selection of the head it makes no sense for the president to be elected by the people!

to have a better future n to keep the government in safe hands it is essential 4 da president to be eected by the assembly of sensible people!

Answer 28

Peoples themselves

Answer 29

he is considered the first civilian of the country thoug in our country has titular post of a president but he should be selected from people's vote as he is the person who is likely to shape our country's fate for 5 years.

Answer 30

shoud be by people  and not through  MPs and MLAs

Answer 31

The rule for direct election for president is a good one, since politicians always think about the vote banks instead of people.