Members last night voted overwhelmingly in favour of including a compromise option which retains a role for tenants on the ballot paper for the forthcoming plebiscite.
As a result, the public will be asked to vote for either an assembly made up of all Deputies, irrespective of whether the candidates are landowning tenants or those who lease property from them, or a mix of the two.
The latter, proposed by tenant Chris Rang, provides for 12 Deputies, eight tenants and eight other members drawn from the highest placed runners-up from both sets of candidates.
In a debate which was later praised for the manner in which it and discussions over the last six years were conducted, members agreed that the plebiscite’s parameters would be a 60% turnout of those entitled to vote and a 20% majority in favour of the option the electorate preferred be adopted.
