Question 42090 — elections and referendums

Summary

Ms. Paula Forteza draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the majority judgment vote. This question is asked on behalf of a citizen, as part of the “Citizen Questions” initiative in Government. For decades, we have been accustomed to voting “for” a person, with no other alternative. However, the two-round majority vote continues to show its limits, like the place taken by the polls, which very often force voters to vote usefully or strategically. In this regard, the recurring records of abstention should alert us to the growing unsuitability of the single-member majority system. At the same time, it should be noted that in recent years, other voting methods have been imagined and tested, such as majority judgment voting. We must remember the principle: the voter votes by giving his opinion on all the candidates, based on a common scale of mentions ranging for example from “Excellent” to “Reject”, including “Good” or “Insufficient”. The candidate best evaluated by a majority of voters is then elected, possibly after a second round of voting (as was the case within the framework of the “LaPrimaire.org” initiative, which led to the designation of Charlotte Marchandise as candidate for the presidential election 2017). She would therefore like to know how the Government views majority judgment voting and whether it plans to experiment with it or even deploy it in certain elections.

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