Dropping preferential voting in favor of Sri Lanka proportional representation to build peace
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CCKK says
If the proposed mixed system has 125 for first-pass-the-post and 75 for proportional allocation, first a ceiling (upper limit) should be set before the proportional allocation. Limit is number of seats according total country votes. e.g who gets 60% they are entitled for 120 seats. If they have already taken 100 from first-pass system they will get only the gap of 20. Not a 60% from 75 seats. Then it will secure a small party who gets 5% to have 10 seats.
This ceiling should be fixed when mixing two systems. Only gap is filled from the 75 proportional allocation. Then small parties will get the right amount. Any party which gets less than 1% should not give any seat to discourage waste on lots of parties.
A bonus of 5 should be given from the national list of 25 for the winner to have a stable government.
Adrian Tawfik says
Thanks for the comment. I am not an expert on the details but what you said makes sense. Checkout our EM Central page for more on proportional representation too.