Desiring another voting method in legislative elections is a wish shared by many French people, convinced that their National Assembly represents them poorly.
The adhesion of our country to the first past the post in two rounds to designate the deputies, pillar of the Fifth Republic (except in 1986), is crumbling.
The inclinations to institute “a dose of proportionality” bear witness to this.
But how to combine the virtues of the majority ballot (clarity of the result, stability of the parliamentary majority and the government) and proportionality (fair representation of all families of thought) without their respective drawbacks?
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However, on the other side of the Rhine, like a scientist in a white coat, the West German legislator, in 1949, developed, under the watchful eyes of the Western allies, an incredibly sophisticated mixed parliamentary voting system, whose concrete effects are showing these days, in Berlin, after the legislative elections of September 26.
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