GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Why I hate proportional representation....

You can see one of the biggest problems of proportional representation in yesterday's Israeli election. Now that the election is OVER, the real horse trading begins, and the public has no input. Somehow, somewhere deals will be made and someone will come to power, and the end result may be far different than what voters may have wanted or intended.

And, the sad part is that the party who does the best trading may well become the winner. So, if Netanyahu 'outbids' Livni, he will become the next PM, and no one will know what he has promised until he comes to power. And vice versa - who knows that Livni is saying to Lieberman, etc.

I'm not a huge fan of first past the post - it has its own problems (The Greens certainly do deserve some representation) - but proportional representation is even worse.

1 Comments:

Blogger Skinny Dipper said...

I thought Israel had the best democracy in the Middle East. Thankfully, the Palestinian Authority doesn't use proportional representation for its parliamentary/assembly elections. Hamas got a majority of the seats with a minority of the votes.

6:16 PM  

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