LETTER: Proposal to limit PR seats will wipe out small parties
Political parties have imposed and dismissed ward councillors as the party national executive wishes
10 June 2021 - 15:20
Jonny Steinberg is the first commentator to expose the “wishful fantasy” that replacing our national and provincial PR electoral system with the mixed wards & PR used in municipal elections will make any great improvements. (June 4).
Lobbyists for a predominantly constituency system evade the fact that our political parties have for a quarter of a century both imposed and dismissed ward councillors as the party national executive wishes, just as they do with PR councillors, MPLs, and MPs. This rarely causes them difficulties...
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