[Ntrails]

> how much voting power so to say is left for.. which guy the party says they'll send to the european commission?

Short of a direct (referendum based) democracy how do you resolve that?

[gpm]

In principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy is an interesting idea to address this sort of issue.

[recursivecaveat]

More expressive voting systems help. If your vote has meaning when cast for something other than 1 of 2 platforms it can encode more of your preferences. Referendums are also not the only variety of direct democracy, you can have sortition.