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MMP delivers 7% solution to 44% problem

Opinion: MMP critic puts part of the blame for a coalition government on former prime minister Sir John Key.

Tue, 24 Oct 2017

I spent 11 wonderful years living and working in New Zealand, from 1993-2004. During that whole time one of my pet peeves was the MMP voting system, one of the world’s most proportional systems and the one the Americans imposed on the Germans after World War II. 

Almost half the MPs come into

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