Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Has Macron Triggered a Civil War in New Caledonia?" video.

  1. Proportional representation would help with this issue. My suggestion is this. Make the island ruled by a parliament elected through multiple multi member constituencies. Distribute seats between the constituencies based on how many of each ethnic groups is there. So donone round of granting seats based on the French population, one round for the Asian and Oceanian immigrant population and one round for the Native population. Give the natives more seats to distribute this way, but don't make any of these seats exclusive to any ethnic group. This way more people from areas with a large native population will be represented regardless of how many immigrants or French people might move in, and everyone of each group has a vote even if they might have less influence depending on where they live, if they live in a area with a native majority their vote is just as important as that of the natives. Then add leveling seats for each constituency. These helps correct the difference between how many seats a party gets from the various constituencies, how many votes a political party gets at a national level and how many sests rhey would have gotten at a national level. Again this benefits the native population in the sense that they get more seats populated with their ethnic group, but it also makes the votes of the overall population matter more im terms of the balance between the political parties. Remove the electoral threshold for the individual constituencies, but keep it for the leveling seats. With multimember constituencies and proportional representation you also split up the voter blocks, making it less ethnicly focused. As people voting for smaller parties either reprinting a ethnicity or just the population at large will get more representation, leaving the big ethnicity focused parties weaker, and giving more room for coalition negotiations across ethnic lines... It gives both ethnic groups more room to get someone from the other ethnic groups over on their side in the parliament. Pick a representative to the French parliament by making the local parliament elect them, meaning that even parties not big enough to get into the French parliament will be involved in picking who is sent. And kick the can down the street when it comes to independence 40 years. Add a renegotiation about the number of seats between the ethnic groups 20 years down the line within the Parliament, meaning that natives in theory can get more say in how they're distributed then. And give everyone who has lived on the island for 10 years or more voting rights on the island, if they apply for it (think citizenship). Then automatically from then on. Gives more immigrants a say in matters too. People will be able to move around to influence what constituency has the most seats and the ethnic makeup of the area. And political parties can appeal to a certain ethnic group or to multiple ethnic groups or the whole population depending on what they wish to do. But with the coalitions and cooperation of a parliamentarian system it should hopefully make peoples identity leas connected to voting patterns. Oh, and in independence referendums and other referendums every vote is equal. Make constitutional changes require a referendum.
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