KDH: cementing electoral system and one election district unacceptable

Making an early parliamentary election conditional on maintaining the current electoral law is unacceptable for the extra-parliamentary Christian Democratic Movement (KDH).
The party considers the cementing of the electoral system and one electoral district as strengthening the position of "one-man parties" and strengthening Bratislava's centralism.
KDH considers this to be bad news for the equal representation of MPs from individual regions in Parliament and for political culture. It pointed out that more than 40 percent of all MPs come from Bratislava region. "In case of the Sme Rodina and SaS, as many as 75 percent of MPs came from Bratislava region. That's why it's obvious that these political parties also supported OLaNO's proposal to keep one electoral district," KDH representatives said in a statement sent to TASR by spokeswoman Lenka Halamova.
The party also maintains that with a single electoral district, the party doesn't need to take into account the principle that it should choose people equally from all over Slovakia to its slate. According to them, this is more suitable for parties with a small number of members, which aren't well represented in the regions. KDH promotes a change to eight electoral districts copying self-governing regions.
OLaNO's condition on the agreement on an early election was that the electoral system could only be changed by the votes of 90 MPs, not only 76. The compromise amending proposal of the former four-party coalition to the amendment to the Constitution, which is being debated in Parliament, contains the anchoring to the Constitution of the principle of proportional representation of the electoral system and one electoral district for parliamentary elections. (TASR)