The electoral commission and the media need to better explain how the votes work and that the two ballot papers are of almost equal importance
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After a further round at the constitutional court, the situation for independent candidates is now that they must collect considerably fewer supporting signatures than what is required for new political parties contesting elections, and they can only run for one of the 200 seat set aside to provide proportional representation of the nine provinces, which are in reality large multi-member constituencies.
This terminology and this way of presenting the electoral system overlooks the fundamental fact that the overall proportional allocation of seats to parties in the National Assembly is done by computing how many of all 400 seats each political party is entitled to based on its share of all the votes cast across the country. That is on both ballot papers.
The overall proportional allocation of all 400 seats could just as well be based only on the compensatory ballot paper, which is what one sees in other countries with — in this regard — comparable electoral systems, as Germany and New Zealand.
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