Electoral/Political Party Reform – 2014
2014
While major political parties tried to settle disputed issues including the electoral system in the constitution drafting process, substantial progress was not made. The Committee for Constitutional, Political Dialogue and Consensus Building was created in April to expedite the dialogue and find consensus among political parties on disputed issues and produce a report within three months.1 In its report, the CCPDC listed the electoral system as one of the contentious issues that it was not able to solve.2 While political parties agreed on a mixed electoral system comprised of the majoritarian representation and proportional representation, parties had differences on the ratio for the directly and proportionally elected members, and within the proportional system, parties had different positions on whether the candidate names in the proportional list should be ranked.