r0dia

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by r0dia 12y ago
Please stop using Hacker News for delivering your propaganda. This is all BS, there is neither right, nor matter to be decided.
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by r0dia 12y ago
I don't know how good the open list system is working in Denmark. In Italy a experiment showed that only 3% of the electors use their right to change the candidates, making it useless. A majority system where you can choose directly yo
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by r0dia 12y ago
Still, a representative democracy would be a way better than a partitocracy, don't you think?. Podemos can use State power to improve things(social justice) but that is a totalitarian way of doing things.
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by r0dia 12y ago
> Then I'm not sure what you mean. That you don't like standard representational democracy, whereby voters grant power to politicians for a limited timeframe but cannot control directly what they do during this time? I'm g
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by r0dia 12y ago
France doesn't have a full separation of powers since the president's executive needs the OK from the legislative power. The Montesquieu proposal is the best mechanism that we have to avoid institutional corruption. If the power i
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by r0dia 12y ago
Honestly, I don't care how you feel. The Constitutional Court of Bonn (Germany) states that there is no representation in proportional list system. (I'll look for the quote). > What's not democratic is first-past-the-post
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by r0dia 12y ago
> Representativeness: not possible in Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, Portugal among others, since they use the proportional list system. > I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Are you talking about undue importance given to sma
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by r0dia 12y ago
I would like to rant a bit if you don't mind. There is no political Left in Europe. Podemos is not a leftist party, since no leftist party or democratic conservative party would ever get paid by the State and be part of it (like the Na