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Originally Posted by mrabody
Actually I believe that Italy went to a split system in the late nineties where about 75% of the seats in their parliament are elected by FPTP. This explains why the last few governments have lasted longer than usual. I also understand that the Italian public is generally in favour of making it all FPTP.
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Yes, I remember that the Italian General Election voting system was made more like ours a few years or so ago. They did the right thing.
Germany elects half of their national (Federal) Parliament using the UK First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) voting system and I believe that the French National Parliament is also elected using an electoral system similar to our FPTP system.
And of course the American Presidential Election system uses FPTP too. Interesting that some of the wealthiest countries in the world (including several leading members of the G7/8 group of industrialised nations) - the USA, Canada, France, Italy Australia, Singapore - use part or all of our FPTP General Election voting system or variations of it.