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Referendum on voting system the way forward?

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John Beauchamp 27.05.2015 14:14
  • Referendum on voting system the way forward?
Single-mandate constituencies became a leitmotif of the presidential campaign, especially after the surprisingly good performance in the first round of the elections of their champion Paweł Kukiz.

So much that on the heels of this, President Bronisław Komorowski announced a national referendum on the issue, voted through by the Polish parliament, as Elżbieta Krajewska reports.

However, more and more voices are querying whether this voting system is really the answer. As right-wing politician and former MEP Jacek Kurski points out, with this system, even Paweł Kukiz stood to lose.

"He should be aware that he wouldn't be on the Lower Silesian assembly... His 20 percent in the presidential election would equal zero in the parliamentary election," Kurski said.

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