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Originally Posted by danielf
Thanks for that. I couldn't have put it better myself. Having lived under PR for most of my life I never understood the weak government argument myself. In fact, I find the idea of one party holding absolute power to push through legislation that the electorate was never consulted on quite scary. Coalition governments ensure that there is a proper cross-party debate on such issues, which is a good thing in my opinion.
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Indeed, I've never lived under PR, but I have lived through a situation where thanks to our current system, we were by a party who had effectively unchallenged control despite most of the southern half of the country not voting for them. As such they could get through a lot of their bills with little or no resistance.