Couldn’t Party Lists be used to appoint really unpopular MPs who stand no chance of been directly elected?
In theory yes, but any party which used such an underhand tactic would receive a lot of bad press and suffer at the polls as a result. Though in any case, when voting at General Elections very few people vote for the best local candidate, instead they vote for the political party or party leader they want to form the next government. So the views of people who vote for political parties and there leaders have to be given some weight, the best way of doing this is by allocated some or more of the parliamentary seats using Proportional Representation.
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