Special for "Israel Today" • Journalist Yossi Hadar and Prof. Avraham Diskin find out why even after four consecutive election campaigns, no one is burning to change the system
"Contrary to popular belief, the blocking percentage should actually be lowered."
Journalist Yossi Hadar talks to Prof. Avraham Diskin of the Shaarei Mada VeMishpat Academic Center about changing the electoral system.
Podcast with Yossi Hadar - Professor Avraham Diskin // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon
Diskin believes that the current method has actually proven itself, and should not go on adventures.
Still, the instability in the political system stems from what he calls the "disaster" - raising the blocking percentage.
How to change the system, is the proposal that the head of the big party will automatically become prime minister correct, which method is especially preferable in Israel - relatively or regionally, what does he think of Avigdor Lieberman, and also what proposal he has made in the past?
The "15 Minutes" podcast by Yossi Hadar will be broadcast regularly on the "Israel Today" website