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Kynes on 20 September 2012
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Adinnieken said:
the2real4mafol said:

 

You need a proportional system like the greek system, which has a 300 seat house, 250 of which are elected and the other 50 are awarded to the leading party, in a hope to avoid to coalitions (even though the US system acts like a coalition anyway)

In this system, a party needs at least 3% to get a seat in parliament. Need 151 for a majority. To decide, the number of seats for each party, they divide the 250 by the total percentage of votes for each party. I wish, a system like this existed in Britain.

As you can see 7 parties got seats

Official parties

    New Democracy (ND) 129

    Syriza Unionist Social Front (SYRIZA) 71

    Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) 33

    Independent Greeks (ANEL) 20

    Golden Dawn (this is the nazi pary of greece!) (XA) 18            

    Democratic Left (DIMAR)   17

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 14

 


And thus my point is proved!  Such a system of government absolutely, positively, without any question of doubt does not work!  Talk about a country that is so fucked up right now politically as well as financially, and you have one solid bit of evidence as to why.  Rule by committee doesn't work.  Anyone who has worked in the corporate world at a business level (not a your local McDonald's franchise or Seven Eleven) can speak of the woe that is "rule by committee".  When everyone has a voice and no one can agree enough to make a reasonably intelligent decision, so no one does anything or they do the wrong thing for all the wrong reasons. 

There is nothing like being in a committee, needing consensus to move forward and having one idiot in a corner spouting off random bullshit that has no relevance to the actual issue but demanding it be acknowledged and acted upon in order for consensus.  And that is exactly what you'd have in a such a system of government.


There is a joke that says that a Camel is a Horse designed by a committee. I totally agree with your opinion, a fragmented parliament most of the times provide instability.