Egypt will use the type of proportional representation pioneered by West Germany, in the upcoming September 2011 Parliamentary elections. See this story. Parties that poll at least one-half of 1% of the total vote will be represented in the lower house. The age at which candidates are eligible to run has been lowered from 30 to 25.
Gee – did the Germans win the election war ???
See the Battles of El Alamain July-Oct 1942
Will the old world save the New World – i.e. the ANTI-Democracy gerrymander regimes — U.S.A., U.K., Canada, etc. ???
It is unclear that it is really a mixed member system. There appears to be some implication that the individual and list elections are independent and not related. I don’t see how you can say that it is the type used by Germany.
Hopefully we’ll see more change before the eventual law comes into place, it is still slightly draconian and the 50% seats for low earning workers and the individual-based candidacy is seen as remnants of a corrupt system in which Mubarak was kept in power by illiterate rural voters who were so uneducated of the political system that they often didn’t quite know what they were voting for.
It’s a semi-proportional voting system, meaning “parallel.” The political groupings that do best in the winner-take-all seats likely will win the most proportional voting seats as well.
FairVote has covered developments in the Arab Spring movement toward elections (nearly always also moving toward more proportional voting systems.) See:
http://www.fairvote.org/list/author/Arab%20Spring_Series
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#4 Not like Germany then, correct?
The robot party hacks LOVE adding extra stuff to make elections impossible to understand for lots of folks.
Total Votes / Total Seats = Equal votes required for winners.
Such high tech math- from about the 3rd grade.
The same system is also used in Wales and Scotland.
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