Die Zeit für die Wahlreform ist jetzt. Wieder.
https://www.terracestandard.com/opinion/the-time-for-electoral-reform-is-now-again-8006999
Die Zeit für die Wahlreform ist jetzt. Wieder.
https://www.terracestandard.com/opinion/the-time-for-electoral-reform-is-now-again-8006999
5 Kommentare
We’ll never get a democracy that serves voters well so long as MPs are in charge of election rules. You may not like longest ballot tactics but they are absolutely correct that politicians should recuse themselves and pass electoral reform to an independent nonpartisan body to decide.
Not just electoral reform. As the article notes,
>MPs do not represent their constituents; they represent and are accountable to their party’s leader. MPs vote and communicate as directed by their party’s leadership. Party leaders not only control every candidate’s initial nomination, significantly they also control their nomination for re-election.
All of that is external to the actual electoral process.
Whipped votes are an explicit exchange of party support for control over an MP or MPP. In any other circumstance, an exchange of valuable considerations for influence over an elected official is called bribery.
Yeah, I think it’s pretty clear that it’s needed. Even if you’re a conservative… 2021 election you guys would’ve had the most seats. This election, only a handful of seats behind, not by almost 30.
Even if it was something simple like ranked ballot, you might’ve seen more people voting actually for the NDP instead of the Liberals and allowing some of those NDP seats to stay NDP, which could’ve changed the result. Some of those seats staying NDP, maybe the CPC wins.
Carney has no mandate to implement electoral reform, and he won’t do it. And aside from the problem that it would not be in the LPC’s electoral interests, the electoral reform faction needs to figure out another big problem, which is that their movement is very unpopular with people who are not hyper tuned into politics. Whenever electoral reform is put to a referendum, it tends to get crushed, even in places where it should be the strongest (like BC).
And that’s before you reach the problem that even if all the political stars align, and electoral reform somehow passes, the Supreme Court might just nuke the movement by determining it needs a constitutional amendment (at the federal level). The exact same thing happened to the Senate reform movement, and all the momentum that had been building for decades basically dissipated overnight.
Lol.
We had our generational chance.
Trudeau failed.
We won’t get another chance for another generation. Probably two.
Move on and go somewhere where something productive is actually possible.