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Well currently we have an 11 seat overhang.
Not going to be enough seats in the house...
I'm really stuck between, happy opportunity good in, worried about our democracy with engineered overhangs and three more years of the country going backwards.
Yeah it's a bit shit that the current result has the right bloc leading by 1.5 seats yet they got 49.9% of the vote...
I don't think this was part of electoral reform recommendations though. How do other countries with similar systems protect against this sort of thing? I'm worried that manipulating the system will become commonplace from here on.
https://m.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2611/S00018/solving-the-mmp-overhang-problem.htm
Ah nice, looks like solutions to our problems are already available. Now we just need a government to actually implement any election reform recommendation 🥲
Indeed