Thai election: 'Proposed system would punish parties and not serve the public'

[billd766]

I do not understand this party list system,does any other democracy in

the World have this system,is this how it works ? for every xx MP's that

your party gets elected, you get 1 party list seat?

If that is how it works,these party list seats will be given to major money

backers in the election,that does not seem very Democratic,as whomever

gets the seat will be chosen by the party not the people.

regards Worgeordie

That is how Yingluck became the PM with absolutely NO political experience.

She was #1 on the PTP party list.

[Thai at Heart]

Is there any published outcome from modeling this on previous elections. Could be interesting.

Yes, but mumbo jumbo.

From CDC adviser Jade Donavanik (The Nation 2015-11-02):

"The simulations have been calculated based on different logic and systems, he said. They have used an assumption of one system to explain another system; so, it wasn't totally logical, Jade added."

"You can't say that had we used this system in 2005 this would have been the result. It's an 'if clause' that is not true and can never be true,"

Jade went on to say,

"proportionality was a thing to be considered, especially how much proportionality between constituency and party list candidates the MMA would produce, compared with the MMP which was considered "the fairest".

CDC originally adopted Germany's MMP system after travelling to Germany and witnessing the process first hand, but rejected it. It essentially wasn't "Thainess" enough - because Thailand society is so unique there is no electroral system in the world that would be appropriate.

Well exactly. Thing is at the end of the day, PTP won the popular vote by a slim margin but total seats by a long way.

It's difficult to jig that result to mean that they don't win overall. However it maybe that a lot of Democrat voters up country didn't bother to vote because they knew their candidate couldn't win up country.

Will be interesting.

just for the record, I'm not sure that getting 35% more votes than your closest competitor would be considered a slim margin...

I thought the popular vote was closer than that.

[MaxLee]

What elections???? Are there gonna be any??????