On September 20, New Zealand elected a new Parliament. New Zealand, starting in 1996, has been using proportional representation. Here is the wikipedia article about the recent election, which not only gives the results, but offers a clear statement of how New Zealand’s system works. Thanks to Rob Richie for the link.
New Zealand is one of the nations I tend to list when I find myself needing to refute claims that the Green Party is a “fringe” party or that it can’t get people elected at all. Germany and a few other European countries like France are some other nations I list as well. Our nation just has the dubious distinction of not being as democratic as we say we are.
NZ had the olde DARK AGE Brit gerrymander system — and then got intelligent in the 1980s-1990s
— EXCEPT for having the tyrant Parliament stuff — the same party hacks having both legislative and executive powers.
NZ P.R. system is about 95 percent accurat — i.e. about 47-48 percent minority rule —
compared to the about 30 percent minority rule gerrymander math in the U.S.A, U.K., Canada, India, etc.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
MONTEREY CALIFORNIA USA
September 23, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
One of the thirty-three political candidates
in a national “Unity Coalition” is visiting
San Francisco California but she’s not there
to campaign. She is there to help a very ill
medical marijuana patient make the move back
to Rhode Island.
Anne Armstrong [Compassion], a write-in “United
Coalition” candidate for Governor of Rhode
Island is in San Francisco for a few days to
do what she does best; be compassionate for
her fellow Rhode Islanders.
She and two other candidates on the Rhode
Island side of the USA are battling the status
quo over corruption in RI and that’s one reason
why they do like the Unity Coalition’s #1 plank
which is to end corruption in California.
Of the three Rhode Islanders, only Tony Jones
[Libertarian] for Lt. Governor is actually
ballot-qualified. The other two, Anne
Armstrong [Independent] for Governor
and Pamela Azar [Independent] for Secretary
of State, were declined ballot access after
obtaining more than enough of the required
signatures. But their names were eliminated
from the state’s ballot due to alleged
technical problems with some of the
thousands of signatures which were
painstakingly gathered by them.
One thing that they are united on is the
need to address the corruption. Anne
Armstrong writes; “RI is a very corrupt
state and the back door deals are staggeringly
bold. And our legislators sell laws to the
highest bidder and there is no balance of
powers. It’s the state cops and people
with good family connections running
everything. Our State Attorney General
hired a full time lobbyist on the taxpayers
nickel just to write and lobby for laws
that enlarge his fiefdom and his buddies’
monopolies.”
Contacting the candidates is probably easiest
through their Facebook pages:
https://www.facebook.com/anna.vrankar?fref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/pamela.azar.921?fref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/tonyjonesinri?fref=ts
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For more information please contact James Ogle [Free Parliamentary] at (831) 383-1409 or to see the entire
list of candidates, the team plan and the Unity
Platform for the United Coalition please
visit the web page:
http://www.usparliament.org/usap-wp
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A coalition of Americans united for the purpose of establishing truly representative government at http://www.usparliament.org
France is a very poor country to site in regards to advocate for proportional representation for the Green Party. Sadly, France has a tremendous influence in Africa.
If you’re looking for a perfect voting system which gives exact, perfect, and pure proportional representation then why not select the only perfect system known which New Zealand does not use?
One which calibrates up or down and is exact within .0001ths and greater?
That system is the Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system, Hagenbach-Bischoff method, ranked choice voting (RCV) within multi-winner districts of two or more only.
Should you select New Zealand or Germany as examples then you’d be selecting voting systems which are not perfect. They are unfair and unjust to many voters because of the disproportional nature.