Reforms, SMI: Proportional with national correction
12/10/2011 00:00
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In the last two years, the Socialist Movement for Integration (SMI) has
been very active with the requests for establishing the Parliamentary
Commission of the Electoral Reform.
The draft that the SMI submitted this week at the Parliament provides the creation of an all-inclusive commission. Among other things, it says that the Commission could translate legal norms and issues that are not included in the OSCE-ODIHR recommendations. The electoral system is another thing for which the OSCE-ODIHR will never make suggestions, because it is a sovereign decision of the political class.
“In any kind of system, the SMI will continue to be an important factor and will determinate the majorities of the country”, declared the SMI general secretary, Luan Rama.
After this self-confidence declaration there was another confirmation, a more sincere one: the distribution formula of the current system creates discrimination.
“There are MPs that have been elected with 20.000 votes, such as the SMI, but there are other parties that are represented in the Parliament with 5.000 votes”, Rama declared.
Which is the best system, according to the SMI?
“Maybe a proportional with national correction, since there are no possibilities to create a national one. This would be a conventional solution that gives more value to the citizens’ vote”, Rama declared.
The draft-project presented in the Parliament assigns a six months period of time allowed to the commission of the electoral reform.
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