Arguments for Proportional Representation
Radical Socialist has issued an election stand that is online and will also be available in slightly condensed form in Bangla as a printed booklet. I propose to write briefly about many of our demands, and put them up as blogs and Facebook posts. . As we say, these are demands we will raise before, during and after the elections. The first of these calls for proportional representation. Such a demand faces two criticisms. One from the liberal and right, another from the left. The liberal and right opposition says that proportional representation weakens the government. To this our response is, bourgeois democracy claims it stands for accountability of government and MPs to the people. In that case, the First Past The Post System [FPTP] we have is bad. It ensures that big parties get disproportionate seats. It also ensures skewed representation. First Past The Post: A Route to Marginalising Smaller Parties In the 1962 Parliament, the undivided CPI had just under 10