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The article is about authoritarian takeover, I'm showing that PR doesn't prevent that and might even give them more space than with FPTP, that's all. You're going off on a tangent that wasn't part of the original discussion.
I'm literally just responding to you, lol
Nobody said PR prevents authoritarian takeover, we just said it protects. And ensuring our democracy is actually representative of its people, does protect us against authoritarianism -- precisely because the power is vested in the people.
I think you need to do a lot of thinking about the functions of electoral systems. I've seen this kind of argument before -- FPTP limits extremism ... but that is far from the truth. And PR simply gets us closer to a better democracy, and yes your argument that "right" wingers get representation -- is a "flaw" with democracy not with PR.
France's far right party would have 214 seats instead of 142 with PR, but sure, PR protects countries from extremism!
Any links to back that up? Seems suspect.
Look at the results
142 seats right now with 37% of the votes and 577 seats total
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_French_legislative_election
Doesn’t France have a sort of PR in how the multiple rounds work? In any case the system still sends way better than FPTP. Canada has had majorities backed by only 40% of the vote, which is pretty insane.
The two-round runoff system France uses is not proportional. It's not even necessarily ensuring an MP is elected by a majority, because there are some situations where the runoff can be contested by more than two people. But it's still a better system than a single round, since it does afford a voter some level of protection against voting against the establishment, at least in the first round
First round is used to filter out the candidates who don't get enough votes to matter, second round is FPTP but only with the major parties left.
I'm the end the numbers are pretty cut and dry, with PR the far right would have ended getting 50% more seats.