By Hook or By Crook

There is an organisation having $N$ departments,where $i^{th}$ department has $M_i$ members. $Vermaji$ wants to become president of this organisation and for this, he needs to get at least half of the votes in his favour from each department i.e $\lceil M_i/2 \rceil$ members, where $i^{th}$ department has $M_i$ members. However, he gets to know that none of the members wants to vote for him. As