Recent commenters Posted by Pierre Lemieux I have written:
The only chance that Trump could (and had) ascended to the presidency is due to the arcane system used to elect presidents in America (why do they directly elect presidents like in other countries around the world? Why not use elections? …It's much clearer and easier to understand! …Even France abolished the electoral system in 1962!!)
The commenter may be right about other countries' presidents. I don't know enough to know.
But if you extend that to the prime minister, you are wrong. As a Canadian, I grew up in a parliamentary system where, uh, the prime minister is the head of a party with a majority of MPs. (Alternatively, in the case of a coalition government, the prime minister is the leader of the party that has assembled a coalition that includes a majority of parliament. This is the case with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose coalition relies on the presence of NDP MPs.) ) The United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia also have similar parliamentary systems.
This is very similar to the electoral voting system. Your party may receive fewer votes than other major parties, but if they are distributed correctly, it will win a majority of seats in parliament, or at least have more seats than other major parties. can be earned. In fact, this has happened twice in Canada in the past 10 years.inside September 2021 Elections, if the candidate of the party that receives the most votes becomes Prime Minister, we will refer to Erin O'Toole as Prime Minister O'Toole.inside October 2019 Electionif the candidate of the party with the most votes had become Prime Minister, the Prime Minister at the end of 2019 would have been called Prime Minister Andrew Scheer.
I I wrote about this One commenter made a very good point. I'll quote the parts I agree with.
A popular vote for president comes with its own problems.
1. You encourage corruption in your home state. California Democrats, for example, don't have to cheat to win in California. But if adding 100,000 votes makes sense in general, why not? This is not unique to them. Republicans in Republican strongholds will face the same stimulus.
2. Uniform voting rules are needed. It's not clear that that's ideal. Without uniform voting rules, a popular vote is not really a popular vote.
3. How would you handle a recount on the national stage if the vote is close?
Note: The photo above is of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.