Comments on: On Democracy http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/556/on-democracy/ Serpentine Percipience Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:22:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Max http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/556/on-democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-1094 Max Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:53:06 +0000 http://allaboutlatvia.com/?p=556#comment-1094 <p>“Should a member of parliament vote what his constituents…” </p> <p>Surely Latvian deputies do not have constituents. They are voted in on a list system. No Latvian citizen can say Mr A is my representative. This is, I feel, one of the many problems with the Latvian political system – the people do not have their own representative. It is said that a country gets the leader it deserves – and until Latvians become politically aware they deserve people like Kalv?tis.</p> “Should a member of parliament vote what his constituents…”

Surely Latvian deputies do not have constituents. They are voted in on a list system. No Latvian citizen can say Mr A is my representative. This is, I feel, one of the many problems with the Latvian political system – the people do not have their own representative. It is said that a country gets the leader it deserves – and until Latvians become politically aware they deserve people like Kalv?tis.

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