Mixed systems end up with pretty complicated results. FPTP allows us to completely remove parties who have overstayed their welcome. In some glorious cases, it allows the electorate to completely destroy them. This, in turn, drives innovation and turnover within the parties. Old elites are swept out, disgraced, and forced to take middling roles as boardroom shills or lobbyists. All PR does is further cement the party (and not the community) as the centrepiece to a democracy. Look at the horrifically entrenched parties that through the guarantee of perpetual election through PR, and their absolute controls of the candidate lists can stay on indefinitely.
DOWN WITH PR!
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