A pretty funny, standard, factual article because:
- multi-party, PR-systems must start from the local election, _NOT_ from the presidential election
- one cannot have a proportional president, althoug in Turkey the majority and opposition decided to make a "proportional: swap of the president (prime minister) mid-terms.
- US had something almost similar, also an old "tribal" (and democratic) mechanism. The president from on party, the vice president from "his opposition". (France uses something like this, "co-habitation", although the US tradition of having at least one of president, senate or house is another example)
- The US (also UK,Canada, etc similar ones, but to a lower degree) dilemma is that
-- the local election, house and especially senate (2 senators/state) effectively makes any change from the two-party system impossible.
-- the only (present) theoretical possibility for a "third party" is the presidential election
-- skipping the governorial (local) election.
That is, there seem to be no "third party" (or multi-party) possibility for US before
1. local elections and institutions are reformed to
- some level of proportional representation (for those who are supposed to _represent_ their voters)
- allow for forming of governing, majority _coalitions_ between these groups.
2. after that the House can also be made "more representative"
3. the house too has to change a lot "mechanisms" to make the process of forming a majority coalition possible.
(this should be possible within the present US constitution??)
4. however, as long as two senators are elected from every state, this will "tend towards a two-party system"
Plus some other (minor) mechanisms.
Ilmarinen
PS That is
- although maybe possible for the presidential election, that is not where "it" should start, although it might be the only way to start??
- the electoral system in US is actually one of the only "minority (state) protections" there are
Much, or at least some of "this" is covered in what goes on in Canada, B.C., 30-40 hours of "lectures for 2-partyists"
citizensassembly.bc.ca
That is, considering that New Zealand, Australia, Wales,etc,etc has already done the first step, while UK just came up with:
- four demands for a new system, four demands which are impossible, mutually exclusive...
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