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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy!
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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (6400)9/30/2004 7:27:29 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander  Read Replies (2) of 7830
 
<daydream multi-party scheme> ??? Our present multy-party scheme is much older than I am.
(However, there was an experiement with a two-party system in the middle 1700s)

Presidential elections are done in two stages, first 5-6-8 candidates, if no one gets more that 50% of votes, the two with the most votes does a runoff.

<prez TV-debate> One of the better ones (the latest time) was when one of our commercial networks tried to do it "US-style" (silly yes-no questions, trick-questions,etc,etc)

After appr 20 minutes all candidates agreed to start debating something of importance for the elections and Finland (after a short debate on the issue)... after a sudden commercial break that was how it continued.

Ilmarinen

PS There is also be "debates among the candidates among major parties" as well as among the smaller parties,etc..

One major reason is we pay a $100 yearly licence fee to have a non commercial network without commercials which has the constitutional task of "keeping the citizens informed".

PPS Public financing of parties and campaigns is also easy with a proportional representation multy-party system. The monies are distributed proportionally to support.
(would be silly in a two-party system, to always split the cash according to 49-51%, additionally electoral or popular votes??)
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