Showing posts with label MMP voting system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MMP voting system. Show all posts
Friday, May 2, 2025
JC: Is MMP Serving Us Well?
Labels: JC, MMP voting systemThis question was discussed in a piece written by Bruce Cotterill in last weekend’s Herald in which he succinctly points out the shortcomings of the MMP system.
His main point is that MMP fails to serve NZ’s majority. Most of us would agree. MMP was intended to provide for the representation of wider interests in parliament, in a ratio proportional to the makeup of the general population. As laudable as that may seem, we have now reached a point where that ratio is out of line with the makeup of the population and the advocacy of fringe interests risks outweighs the needs of the mainstream.
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