What advantage does propositional representation have over straight-out direct democracy?
"Democracy" in most countries is a joke.
Proportional Representation
一人一票,票票等值...
What advantage does propositional representation have over straight-out direct democracy?
"Democracy" in most countries is a joke.
walkover mean walkover. If there is only one group of candidates for a GRC then they are the winners.
Instead of trying to copy the Thai system, peoples should start demanding for Mixed Member proportional representation. 一人一票,票票等值
It will NOT be proportional if a large chunk of the population doesn't get to vote. So if your idea is to be implemented, the idea from this guy should be implemented first.
In which case I think its not a good idea to squeeze opposition members in as MPs if they lose the vote. 2 scenarios: Just imagine this, U vote for A in the elections, and A won the vote in your district. But due to proportional representation, the Political Party A belonged to needed to get rid of someone coz the representation isn't proportional so they kicked A out and U end up having an MP U didnt vote for
Both scenarios sounds stupid as far as I'm concern
It will NOT be proportional if a large chunk of the population doesn't get to vote. So if your idea is to be implemented, the idea from this guy should be implemented first.
In which case I think its not a good idea to squeeze opposition members in as MPs if they lose the vote. 2 scenarios: Just imagine this, U vote for A in the elections, and A won the vote in your district. But due to proportional representation, the Political Party A belonged to needed to get rid of someone coz the representation isn't proportional so they kicked A out and U end up having an MP U didnt vote for
Alternatively, they could just have a whole bunch of non-elected opposition MPs who loss in Parliament. Besides the fact that no one voted for them which pretty much makes them almost as bad as the Walkover MPs, we end up having to pay more million dollar salaries just coz the opposition needs to make up the numbers. Both scenarios sounds stupid as far as I'm concern
hmm...maybe a possible solution is to the limit the GRC size to no more than 3 candidates. Since we've a total of 84 seats, a efficient GRC/SMC system for example maybe as follows:
- 12 x 2 members GRC (1 minority) = 24 candidates (12 minority)
- 10 x 3 members GRC (1 minority) = 30 candidates (10 minority)
- 30 x SMC = 30 candidates
The above will ensure at least 22 minority candidates from the GRC to conform to the race representation. It may also address the issue of many walkover secnarios due to (4/5/6 members) large GRC...?
In which case I think its not a good idea to squeeze opposition members in as MPs if they lose the vote. 2 scenarios: Just imagine this, U vote for A in the elections, and A won the vote in your district. But due to proportional representation, the Political Party A belonged to needed to get rid of someone coz the representation isn't proportional so they kicked A out and U end up having an MP U didnt vote for
No try also must try because Singaporeans are the stakeholder and not PAP. We don't want another Josephine who claimed to represent the voters when in fact she was not voted in but thru walk-over. Now she contantly made a fool of herself in parliament to embarass Singaporeans
The purpose of proportional representation is to ensure that the losing party, i.e. the party that has no candidate winning an election or the party has a significant proportion of the vote count but did not win sufficient seats, will get some representation in Parliament. The system may require the party to get sufficient percentage of votes, e.g. 5% before they are allowed representation. If a party has 10 candidates winning out of a total of 100 seats but has only managed to garner less than 10% of the total vote count, e.g. they happened to get slim majorities in sparsely populated areas, the party will have all 10 candidates in Parliament. It just means they are not allowed to put in Parliament any more people from their party list who did not get voted in. This is very unlikely to happen in tiny Sinkieland if the electoral boundaries are drawn up properly.
You are just here to confuse the issues, aren't you? In any case, there are a few varieties of proportional representation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation