ANTHONY BUTLER: Advocates of electoral change want to cross out the people’s choices
Scholarship provides no grounds to reconfigure SA’s executive around a directly elected president
14 July 2022 - 15:19
Changing electoral systems is dauntingly complex. One has to admire the courage of senior judges who hand down opinions in a field about which they know next to nothing.
As the result of a 2020 Constitutional Court judgment parliament is engaged in a futile attempt to amend the Electoral Act to allow “independents” to be elected to national and provincial legislatures...
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