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0 pointsr0dia11y ago0 comments

Honestly, I don't care how you feel. The Constitutional Court of Bonn (Germany) states that there is no representation in proportional list system. (I'll look for the quote).

> What's not democratic is first-past-the-post systems, where if in my city 30% of the people vote for candidate A, 25% for B, 25% for C and 20% for D, only 30% of the people get a representative and the rest of the votes go directly to the trash bin.

This doesn't happen in a two-round majority system.

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mercurial11y ago

If you mean a two-round first-past-the-post system, it works about the same as a one-round system. This is what got Jacques Chirac elected with 82% of the votes in France in 2002 in the second round. Whatever the number of rounds, it's a broken system designed to favour the two main parties.

r0diaOP11y ago

Still, a representative democracy would be a way better than a partitocracy, don't you think?.

Podemos can use State power to improve things(social justice) but that is a totalitarian way of doing things.

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