The column below first appeared on Ralph Ramkarran’s blog www.conversationtree.gy
Both the PPP and the PNCR supported the proposals for electoral reform which were
recommended by the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC) in 2000. The CRC had recommended the retention of the proportional representation system but urged that the “electoral system should include an element of geographical representation.”
While the CRC did not make any recommendations of how this could be accomplished,
