[TheBigPicture]

"No he's banning parties unifying into blocks so that when you vote say democrat the socialists and greens also get your vote automatically. We have the exact same system."

Please explain how we have the "exact same system."

[A. Pole]

Please explain how we have the "exact same system."

It means that Greens/Reform etc cannot run as a block . They either become one party or run separate.

[jb6]

Can the democrats, greens and socialists ban togather into blocks for voting purposes. True, we elect individuals, who must represent only one party, they vote for a party (at the upper house of parliment). What he's doing, or rather what this bill is doing, is making each party stand on its marits, not ride the coat tails of another party to power. So a vote for say the democrats doesn't translate into a vote for democrats, socialists and greens or whom ever else is in that block.

On a side note, this doesn't help him either, because his side controls the parliment but was itself elected as a block of 3 parties.