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Why the Albanian opposition; like Berisha or Basha, do not restore this system that gives the relative majority the right to govern and does not return the absolute majority, where the gray electorate or the center is really decisive?
Since 20:00 yesterday, the media in Tirana have been talking about the victory of the extreme right in France, where the majority have appointed the government.
In fact, yesterday in the first round of the French parliamentary elections, Rassemblement National won almost 30% of the votes at the national level.
So 1 in 3 French people have voted for Mari Le Penn's extreme right. But in order to win the elections in one of the largest countries of the EU, one in two French people must vote for you, that is, you must get 50 plus one of the votes.
Accordingly, in the Parliament with 577 deputies, Le Penn received only 37, while her follower in second place received 32.
President Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble party won 20% of the vote, while the center-right Republicans took 6.6%. So Le Penn's victory is relative, and to be absolute, her candidates must win next Sunday against those who are ranked second.
Politically, all the candidates who are ranked third have announced that they will call on voters to vote against the extreme right. Chances are that this scenario will happen, which often happens in France.
Which has an electoral system, which Albania practiced until 2001. The run-off system, which was also used for the election of deputies and mayors. A system where only the candidate who achieves the absolute majority, i.e. 50 plus 1, won, otherwise the two candidates who ranked first would compete again after a week or two.
A corrective system, where power is always taken by the center or the gray electorate. As it happens in France, where the extreme, even though it may have a 30% avalanche, never manages to become a majority if it does not reach the figure of 51%.
Of course, this is not an Albanian system, but a purely French one. Albania took it as it is in 1991 and practiced it in its electoral system. A system that ensured political stability, but was overthrown in 2001, after the Nano-Berisha agreement, who assigned Jemin Gjana and Kastriot Islam to prepare a draft of "electoral reform" that removed the absolute majority as a winning premium.
In the subsequent elections, i.e. in 2005, which were in any case majoritarian, where the deputy was elected directly, the candidate who received even one more vote, i.e. the relative majority, won. Which happened, after Ilir Meta's LSI did damage to the SP in a good part of the areas.
But the goal was elsewhere, because the electoral reform gave the mayors only 3 years of mandate out of 4, and it came into force immediately. And the mayor was also elected by a relative majority. A completely illogical intervention, since in most European countries, mayors decide by absolute majority or runoff.
Everything was done to harm Edi Rama, who at that time had targets like Berisha and Nano. And so, for one or two people, the entire electoral system that had created a tradition was broken, and then in 2009, the entire proportionality was blown up. Meanwhile, mayors are still elected with a relative majority.
Why the Albanian opposition; like Berisha or Basha, do not restore this system that gives the relative majority the right to govern and does not return the absolute majority, where the gray electorate or the center is really decisive?
In fact, Berisha ruined the shift twice precisely because of his bad relationship with the gray electorate over the years. But there were times when he won, namely when he had good deeds with society. While today...
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