According to your story ‘New MPs get straight to work in Parliament’, the leader of the opposition, MP Joey Hew “reiterated his earlier comments about a new coalition government being formed as a result of ‘negotiations and not the clear will of the people’, noting that the PPM had secured the most seats of any individual party. The PPM won seven seats.”
The two other parties each garnered only four seats each, with independents taking the other four seats.
The problem with Hew’s critique is that it is paradigmatically misapplied. If electors were each provided with a right to vote on a national, rather than a district or constituency, level, then his lament would have merit. However, under the current one person, one vote model, “the clear will of the people” is not articulated in the election results.
M. Alson Ebanks
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