Improving the Government’s ability to govern is the most important challenge facing Israel. We need to prolong average tenures of Knesset, Governments and Ministers, as well as to increase cohesion. This can be achieved by ‘direct nomination’ of the head of the largest party to Prime Minister.
One of Israel’s greatest problems is the low carrying capacity of its political structure.
This could be alleviated by appointing the Head of the Largest Party as PM. The essence of the reform should be that after the election results are officially published, the head of the party that got the largest number of votes will have the mandate to form a government that will come into office immediately without the need for a majority vote of confidence by the Knesset.
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Amit Granek
Yuval Holtzmann
Ronit Gudes
Gidi Grinstein
Gaddy Weissman
Calev Ben Dor
Yossi Horesh
Dana Preisler
Omri Dagan
Eran Shayshon
Liran Bainvol
Merav Pick
Noa Ecker
Netaly Ophir
Yariv Mann
Reut Institute
Omri Zegen
Yael Weisz
Toni Hasson
Talia Gorodess
Gil Murciano
Anat Horowitz
Abed Assli
Daphna Kaufman
Shay Gurion
Elad Leshem
Aliza Petrack
Jessica Brandt
Yael Brendel
Martin Ben Moreh
yotamhacohen
Jeremy Fischer
Eden Gallanter
I like the idea in principle, but what happens if the new PM cannot form a coalition? (e.g. if Livni won – operating under this new system – and Shas, Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu all refused to join her govt.) New elections?!
After living in the US with district based representatives, and in Slovakia with proportional representation (party lists), I have to say that ‘winner take all’ per district is better, and leads to more moderates winning more often, and legislating more moderately.
Slovakia requires a party to get 5% to have any reps in Parliament, with votes for under-threshold parties being divided proportionately among those who do make it.
Israel needs more compromising inside of parties, before gov’t coalition forming.
Paul’s question is extremely relevant — this post could use an update, after the election.