Sunday, August 15, 2010

How Do We Elect our Politician ?

To understand the proposed new way of electing our politicians, you have to clear your mind of the present election system or else you will mix them up in your
mind and confuse yourself. Let us directly elect a chief politician at the city, district (district), state and national level. This would eliminate the need to have a majority party system who would then elect a chief. The people would directly elect each of these politicians once every five years. During the elections the citizens would vote for a different politician at each level who would be in charge of administrating the position he had won.
Each politician could run for one position only. He could not run for city as well as district level elections. The elected politician who gets the highest number of votes
directly from the people would be considered the chief of city, chief of district, chief of state, chief of country as per the category that he has won in election. You may give him title as Chief or President or whatever. The people would directly elect
him so no wasting time afterwards on who is going to be the chief minister or mayor or governor or president etc. By this method there will be no hung parliaments and no
majority business or opposition party. Every elected politician works for the betterment of his area and the country as a whole. No voting down a bill just
because they are in the opposition party. In this system there is no opposition party. Everybody should support a good bill and everybody should turn down a bad one. It shouldn't matter who has introduced the bill. Any individual elected politician
can introduce a bill in the Parliament/State legislature/District/City level business meetings. If it is a good bill and public opinion is in favour of it, then all or most of the other politicians will vote for it, if it is not good it will be voted down after public opinion poll is taken. How each politician votes will be declared on TV Business news and papers so we know how our elected politician is voting. Public can take necessary action against him through the Honourary Committe if he is not voting as per public opinion.
At each level of the election process there will be between 10 and 300 runners-ups to the chief depending on the population of that area. The runner-ups would be given the opportunity to serve on the different Committee's, for the five-year term. Committees would mean the same as ministries as is currently known and Committee member would be same as minister/Mp, for our purpose of discussion these two words mean the same and are used interchangeably) The number of people serving on the Committee would depend on the size of the city, district or state. On the national level there could be 200 to 300 runners-ups that would be serving on the different Committee/ministries. The balance would be on the waiting list of committee members in case if any one is made to resign by public opinion or in case of death or whatever, the first one on the waiting list would be inducted in at the bottom of the serving committees.

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