Party politics appears to be the problem to our current malaise
and disenfranchisement with the election process, from my reading
of the vast majority of submission.
Regardles of it being FPTP, AV, MMP or some other system, the power
is left in the hands of political party officials to run the
government as they see fit, making promises which they can not or
will not honour/keep. Long term governing parties tend to be
arrogant and corrupt and the backroom boys, whom we do not elect,
have more power and say than those we do elect. Secrecy and not
openness is the watch word of most governments.
I realize that the Assembly is constrained in their mandate to only
allow a model that follows the Westminister model but I strongly
suggest that an alternative to party politics must be looked at to
give the populace more say and control over how and why we are
governed. There must be several alternatives that could be
reviewed. From a consensus form to even the lottery form that set
up the Assembly. Into any alternate form of government fair
representation for all groups could be built in, be they women,
First Nations or other recognized groups.
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