[Al-Khwarizmi]

> 1.- Representativeness: not possible in Spain, Italy, > Germany, Greece, Portugal among others, since they use the > proportional list system.

What? I feel much more represented by a list of people that share my ideas and projects for the country, than by whomever the majority of people in my city chose among some candidates from the city.

What's not democratic is first-past-the-post systems, where if in my city 30% of the people vote for candidate A, 25% for B, 25% for C and 20% for D, only 30% of the people get a representative and the rest of the votes go directly to the trash bin.

If anything the problem with the Spanish electoral law is that it's not purely proporcional, it has districts which doesn't make any sense.

[r0dia]

Honestly, I don't care how you feel. The Constitutional Court of Bonn (Germany) states that there is no representation in proportional list system. (I'll look for the quote).

> What's not democratic is first-past-the-post systems, where if in my city 30% of the people vote for candidate A, 25% for B, 25% for C and 20% for D, only 30% of the people get a representative and the rest of the votes go directly to the trash bin.

This doesn't happen in a two-round majority system.

[mercurial]

If you mean a two-round first-past-the-post system, it works about the same as a one-round system. This is what got Jacques Chirac elected with 82% of the votes in France in 2002 in the second round. Whatever the number of rounds, it's a broken system designed to favour the two main parties.

[r0dia]

Still, a representative democracy would be a way better than a partitocracy, don't you think?.

Podemos can use State power to improve things(social justice) but that is a totalitarian way of doing things.