On July 23, Spain held a parliamentary election. In the Congress of Deputies, which has 350 seats, eleven parties won at least one seat. In the Senate, which has 208 seats, five parties won seats. Spain uses proportional representation. See this wikipedia article about the election.
C. T. Weber, a long-time leader of the Peace & Freedom Party of California, has this op-ed in L.A. Progressive. He asks California Governor Gavin Newsom, who holds himself out as a democracy advocate, to support proportional representation.
On July 21, the Arkansas Secretary of State determined that No Labels is now a ballot-qualified party for purposes of the presidential election.
Here is the blog post from Walter Olson, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.
No labels is getting attention for its idea of possibly running a centrist ticket in 2024. But few reporters explain that the No Labels idea is not new, and that it was tried in 2012 by a group called Americans Elect. And even before that, a similar idea was launched in 2008 called Unity ’08. A National Public Radio story recounts the history of the 2008 and 2012 attempts. Ironically, virtually no one attacked those groups, but No Labels is getting fiercely attacked.
