[civsoc-mw] 50+1 for Councillors and MPs

[KPD]

Pia ,
Paja ndimu a masamu.

Noted. Should have been first past post. Some use simple majority to define
50+1 and 'majority' usually being associated with two thirds majority.

Personally I don't we need 50+1 for MPs and councillors. But on the
other hand it is good for development of meaningful democracy for the small
country.

We end up with 2 major blocks of political entities that can have equal
chance of winning.

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, 01:21 pia likoya, <plikoya at hotmail.com> wrote:

> according to wiki, majority and simple majority exactly mean the same
> thing: over a half.
>
> "A *majority*, also called a *simple majority* to distinguish it from
> similar terms (see the "Related terms" section
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority#Related_terms> below), is the
> greater part, or more than half, of the total. -->[1]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority#cite_note-:7-1> It is a subset
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset> of a set
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(mathematics)> consisting of more than
> half of the set's elements."
>
> *From:* civsoc-mw <civsoc-mw-bounces at sdnp.org.mw> on behalf of KPD <
> maluwakpd at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 13 October 2020 18:32
> *To:* civsoc-mw at sdnp.org.mw <civsoc-mw at sdnp.org.mw>
> *Subject:* [civsoc-mw] 50+1 for Councillors and MPs
>
> Should we use majority or Simple majority in the election of councillors
> and MPs?
>
> We need to change the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections Act. We
> can't have MPs and Councillors elected using 50+1. And we can't have the
> whole parliament not elected on 50+1 and subject those in by-elections to
> different interpretation.
>
> Something is not right.
>
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