The majority electoral system is a suitable mechanism for election fraud; the Free Democrats party was always in support of proportional representation, said party representative and Armenia’s former foreign minister Alexander Arzumanyan (pictured).
However, according to Republican Party of Armenia MP Artak Davtyan, proportional representation has its shortcomings — for instance, the views of political parties are not taken into account.
“First, it forms fairly weak governments. For example, in Italy, in a very brief period of time, proportional representation resulted in a change of 52 governments. Second is the very weak connection between the MP or candidate and voter. Third, it’s the rather low level according to district representation, and the most important drawback, in my opinion, is when the move to a 100% proportional voting system is finally made, it leads to certain partisan phenomena — parties view their role in the state governing system above the functions of the state.”
Armenian News
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