Firstly, Thank you for the work you are undertaking on our
behalf; secondly, I understand that the Assembly needs to
demonstrate public support for that work. I am therefore writing to
state that I whole—heartedly support the need to change
the first past the post system. It might work if our MLAs would
actually represent their constituents, but when they abrogate their
responsibilities, as they have done now, they have allowed this
Province to become a Dictatorship — the absolute
negation of denocracy.
Therefore, there must be a better way of ensuring that the
Province is governed on behalf of the majority of the population,
even if this means including dissenting voices —
perhaps, particularly if this means including dissenting voices.
Some form of Proportional Representation is therefore a
necessity.
I disagree with the common criticism of proportional
representation, which is that it leads to a multitude of small
parties and consequent coalition governments — if
people have to talk to, and listen to, other people; surely this is
no bad thing. In any case, the ‘5%
Threshold’ should allow for a fair degree of diversity
without allowing one or two member
“parties”, to obstruct necessary
parliamentary business in favour of a narrow ‘special
interest’ agenda.
I would therefore like to ask the Assembly to support the Mixed
Member Proportional [MMP] system with a
sensible threshold, as this system seems to give the
best balance so that the large urban areas do not altogether
dominate the much larger, but less populated, rural ones.
In any case, whatever the Assembly decides, I trust that this
letter may be counted as showing support for the need for electoral
reform.
[Entered online from a scanned document]
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