Graph of the voting progress during the 2010 Mid-terms. The red dotted line represents the voting treshold known as the "Red Line". The black dotted line is the legal requirement as laid out by the Constitution.
Graph by La Quotidienne, May 23 2010
The "Red Line" is a now obsolete Lovian political term for a specific type of election threshold. It was a Constitutional procedure that foresees the Prime Minister should decide how many seats will become available after the next elections. The Red Line was not based on the absolute number of votes, but the relative place of a candidate compared to others. For example, if there were seven candidates and the Prime Minister gave permission for five Members to be elected, the Red Line was graphically situated between the fifth and the sixth candidate. The term was coined by The Noble City Times during the Mid-term Elections, 2010, which led to its wide adoption in the Lovian media.
The Red Line was first used in the 2010 Mid-term Elections and the principle has been criticized by the socialist journal The Red Morning. After Pierlot McCrooke resigned as a MOTC candidate the Red Line was moved to six candidates; thus practically cancelled. Prime Minister Medvedev commented that leaving one candidate out of Congress was "way too nasty to do".
The Red Line was eliminated from most elections, most controversially the Federal elections, in the 2011 State Reform. The new system following the reform instead gives a candidate a percentage of seats based on their percentage of votes. Some politicians have suggested reviving the red line, and giving only some candidates seats in Congress, but this has never been passed into law. The first election without a red line was the 2011 Special Federal Elections.
See also[]
Elections in Lovia 
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