The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

“Integral proportional, quick!”

2022-06-15T18:21:37.626Z


TRIBUNE - After having published the tribune of two personalities opposed to proportional representation for the election of deputies, we give the floor to two defenders of the opposing thesis, public law associates and respectively general delegate and member of the Pont-Neuf Foundation ...


The two academics publish “La proportional” (La Nouvelle Librairie, 216 p., €15.90).

To discover

  • Find all the results of the legislative elections

After the massive abstention observed in the first round of the legislative elections, a chestnut tree returns, the question of the introduction of a "dose of proportional representation" in our electoral system, to compensate for the manifest imbalance born of the current voting system, majority uninominal to two rounds.

It is true that once again the comparison between the electoral results of the first round of the presidential election and those of the legislative elections will not fail to raise questions: the current projections give a very modest number of seats to a party which won 23, 1% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election, allowing its candidate to be present in the second round, and many more seats to a party whose candidate obtained 4.7% of the votes cast.

Read also

Jacques Julliard: “Proportional, yes but…”

Evoking to explain this discrepancy a bonus for “rooted elected officials” is hardly convincing, when this rootedness is only ever the fruit…

This article is for subscribers only.

You have 87% left to discover.

Freedom is also to go to the end of a debate.

Keep reading your article for €0.99 for the first month

I ENJOY IT

Already subscribed?

Login

Source: lefigaro

All news articles on 2022-06-15

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.