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The unofficial Lemmy movement to bring proportional representation to all levels of government in Canada.
Voters deserve more choice and accountability from all politicians.
Le mouvement non officiel de Lemmy visant à amener la représentation proportionnelle à tous les niveaux de gouvernement au Canada.
Les électeurs méritent davantage de choix et de responsabilité de la part de tous les politiciens.
- What is First-Past-The-Post (FPP)?
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You might need to bend a knee to explain how that answered my question
The paper was published in 2008 and I don’t know enough about European politics to know the shifts since then but you can download it here.
Looks like they categorize Germany as MMP (“Germany, New Zealand and Mexico also have a mixed member proportional (MMP) system, where about half of the members in parliament are selected by closed party lists to correct partisan imbalances resulting from the election of electorate candidates by plurality rules”).
Ah I see, that makes sense, cheers for this. I never knew that despite living there for many years. It really did seem like your vote counted directly towards both party and candidate - didn't realise MMP isn't under the umbrella of PR
More people vote under pr thus increasing interest in democracy. People tend to vote more when their votes actually count for the smaller parties / independents.
To your point on Germany, there’s much more involved in having a robust democracy than simply an electoral system. The culture of the society is one.
But you’re from lemmy.ml, so you’re just trying to sabotage democracy any chance you can get.
(oh wow, no I was asking an honest question and ml was the instance first offered to me, jesus)
In Germany, I'm seeing lots of people vote tactfully to keep the AfD out which seems to be a new trend, so I'm not sure how robust PR is in the long run there. Still better than FPTP, of course.