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MMP gives one man powers of dictator

Opinion: Rodney Hide says the electoral system makes winners of losers.

Wed, 27 Sep 2017

Among the media hoopla of coalition negotiations, it needs ever so gently noting that MMP is a bastardised mongrel electoral system that the victors inflicted on Germany following the carnage of World War II. The Allies never adopted the system themselves. Five decades on, New Zealand opted for MMP

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