It should be noted that the Canary Islands modify the electoral law is a complicated under what the Statute of Autonomy. Amendment involves the acquiescence of the 2 / 3 parts of the parliamentary chamber, ie at least 40 Members of Parliament. A condition than required for amending the Statute of Autonomy, for which requires only an absolute majority. This puts the electoral law as the real cornerstone of the whole system of power that exists in the archipelago for nearly 30 years. Condition implies that law reform is necessary consensus of the three major parties dominate political props Canary (CC-PP-PSOE). The question is: Are they interested in changing an electoral system that closes the entrance of new bands and they will surely lose him votes? Are you willing to modify the overrepresentation of the outlying islands?. Probably not or at least have little incentive to do so. Canary electoral law is subject to change since the adoption of the Statute of Autonomy August 10, 1982. A law was drafted to defend the interests of these formations and taking into account social reality that after 29 years has changed substantially. Efforts to advance effective reform of the grant have been zero.
Canary electoral law is the most restrictive of all the national territory. Contains what some have called the double barrier. For a political party may be represented in the Canary Islands' parliament, needs to obtain at least 30% of the valid votes cast in the constituency or insular, adding all the constituencies where candidates had filed at least 6% of valid votes cast in the entire autonomous region (Statute of Autonomy. Arrangement First Transitional Section 2. P. 16) . Fundamental result, In the last elections, some 16% of the votes did not reach enough to be political representation in Parliament (about 155,000 votes.) In the rest of Spain this barrier varies between 3% and 5% of the vote and there is only the regional barrier, giving us a clear idea of \u200b\u200bthe difficulties they must overcome the political modest.
is also very little proportional law. The poor relationship between population size of each island and who represent seats in Parliament, causing an imbalance on paper implies that not all votes have the same value. The Statute of Autonomy fixed Parliament in accordance with a distribution of seats where more than 80% of the Canarian population, which resides in the main islands of (1,552,530 pop.), Is represented by only 50% of Members who will sit in Parliament (30). Less than 20% of the remaining population, which lies on the other islands (365,989 pop.) Is represented by the other 50% of the deputies. An anomaly that does not reflect reality Canarian population and provides an over-representation for non-capital island. The disconnection between the number of deputies representing each island and the evolution of the population census is another factor that strengthens the electoral system disproportionality Islands. For example, today represent Fuerteventura 7 Members with a greater population than La Palma, which is represented by 8 Members. Other very well spelled out by Democrats for Change such as the existence of a Parliament pair, the triple evils of parity or the% minimum score highest in Spain needed to win at least 1 seat, are deficiencies that recommended urgent reform of the current electoral system.
is important to keep these issues to be realistic and avoid future frustration if the case reached the political who claim to support an amendment to the law, manage to be present in Parliament but are soon forgotten to push the initiative. The electoral law reform Canary Islands, a company that should be a priority on the political agenda of each parliamentary group, may only be changed by popular demand and clamor. A popular clamor Canary essential if society wants to win in plurality, political representation and proportionality, in short, real democracy. PP, PSOE and CC do not seem really willing to push through a reform of modifying the current distribution of power. It involves throwing stones at his own roof. Figure 1. Regional results 2007.
Figure 2. Regional results 2003. The World
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