Which institutions would you prefer for France?

[Хahar 🤔]

Abolish regions in all but name; redraw them roughly along the lines of the old provinces. Keep departments as administrative divisions only. Grant provinces far-reaching powers. Elect regional legislatures every three years, through straight PR. Elect regional Governors every four years through IRV. Grant Governors same powers as the President.

Unicameral Parliament, elected through straight PR to term of four years. Five-year Presidential term, elected through IRV. President mostly figurehead, but with power to appoint/dismiss ministers and dissolve Parliament.

[Хahar 🤔]

800 members is impossibly large. I dono't think there's a legislature in the world that large.

[Хahar 🤔]

800 members is impossibly large. I dono't think there's a legislature in the world that large.

European Parliament had 785 members sometimes ago.

Yes, but it's Europe. 27 countries, not one country.

The population of a State has very few to do with the number of members of its parliament. USA are five times more populous than France, but have only 435 representatives !

And that is because a smaller legislature functions better.

[Хahar 🤔]

Hardly. In India, the Lok Sabha has only 552 members, because larger parliaments do not work.

[Хahar 🤔]

http://icon.cat/util/elections/UvuGokJDFn

My god...

800 people like this are less dangerous than 400, and 400 are still less dangerous than 1.
More people, more democracy.

And with enough democracy comes idiocracy. France has enough idiots with their own party already...

[Хahar 🤔]

Now Hashemite will get mad and call you a Jacobin.

[Хahar 🤔]

Honestly, though, I agree with him. Absent of a clear reason to break with tradition and split Brittany, we should not do so. I am Bengali, and bureaucrats in New Delhi and Islamabad have tried to suppress our language in favor of Hindustani. Linguistic cleansing is not something that appeals to me.