Rethinking the Vote: Can the System Be Fixed? – Professor David Flint

Invited to France 2, the first secretary of the PS suggested that the pink party was not in favour of a reform of the voting method of the general elections.

ANALYSIS. This reform of the electoral system is envisaged by the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, to remedy the absence of a majority coalition in Parliament. But it would not solve the schism, which appeared after the disappearance of the majority fact in 2022, between a presidentialism which is intended to be omnipotent and an over-rationalised parliamentarism.

Rethinking the Vote: Can the System Be Fixed? – Professor David Flint

Mike is joined by Professor David Flint, legal academic and columnist for The Spectator, to discuss whether Australia’s voting system needs reform — with a focus on preferential voting. Professor Flint explains how the current system works, its strengths and weaknesses, and whether changes are needed to ensure fairer and more representative outcomes.