Fred-Rick
1 min readAug 5, 2021

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Hungary has a somewhat weird democratic system. The president is an empowered position (the president appoints the prime-minister). However, the president is selected by the unicameral National Assembly. So, the president is indirectly elected, and this means the empowered position is not necessarily all that empowered.

Voters vote twice for the National Assembly. Single-winners are elected for 53% of the seats in districts. The remainder of the seats is divvied up by the second, proportional vote with a nationwide count.

It means the system is not a completely fair system. One group may be able to gain more seats than it should.

Note: this is not the German system where the district votes are modified to end up being most proportional in nature. The system is not well thought out, but rather a mixture of the two systems likely because the Hungarians thought that was a good idea.

The original version (prior to 2012) had a better structure to it, but perhaps too complex in execution. I'd give the system a B minus.

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