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Electoral System
Acre uses a form of party-list proportional representation. Voters cast their ballot for a political party, with seats in Parliament then allocated to parties proportionally, who choose candidates to fill their allocated seats. This form of party-list proportional representation is also used in Albania, Argentina and Israel. Additionally, members of Parliament are allocated a constituency proportional to an area's degree of support for their party. As a result, for parties which win small amounts of support throughout the entire country - like the Communist Party - they may end up representing a constituency in which they did not win a plurality of the vote.
Unlike countries such as Greece, there is no minimum vote share legally required to enter parliament, though with the current 37-seat makeup, a minimum vote share of 2.7% is needed.
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Opinion Polls
Early into their second term, the Conservative-led alliance remained popular, with their numbers only slightly dipping as Miriam Bar's election as leader of the Liberal Union won some moderates back to the party. The race began to narrow however after the constitutional referendum, as the Conservatives lost small numbers of voters to the Liberal Union, PDU and Labor Zionists.
The race dramatically changed after the Grand Palace Seizure. Though he tried to distance the party from the controversy, Eli Barak and the Labor Zionists lost a dramatic number of supporters almost instantly. The Conservatives also lost support, though this was more gradual. Meanwhile, the Movement for the Homeland sapped votes from the Conservatives, many of whom believed Adelman was too weak in responding to the anti-government protests.
The formation of the Joint List led to them seizing first place in the polls, though support for the PDU was underestimated by several points prior to election day, while the Liberal Union's support was overestimated.
The Liberal Union had hinted beforehand that they intended to work with the Joint List to form a government. But as the leader of the largest single party, Miriam Bar argued that she should be Prime Minister of a hypothetical coalition. Collectively however, the Joint List parties (with three more seats) supported Ali Kadhimi of the PDU. Bar in turn supported an alternating premiership, but this was also rejected. Another topic of disagreement was who would become Speaker - Bar supported the more moderate leader of the Peace & Equality Party, while the PDU argued that the Communists, who narrowly beat the PEP in vote share, should receive the office. Some were also concerned that the coalition would be fragile; many believed Antoun Hussein and the PEP could leave if he was not offered the Speakership, and voices within the Communist Party were highly sceptical of a long-term coalition with more moderate parties.
Sensing discontent, Ben Adelman suggested a coalition between the Conservatives, the Liberal Union and the Labor Zionist Party - excluding the more controversial Movement for the Homeland - which would have a hypothetical total of twenty-one also. The leadership of both parties rejected this out of hand however, having run on a staunch anti-Conservative ticket.
Ultimately, Bar acquiesced to most of the Joint List's demands. Ali Kadhimi became Prime Minister, while Bar became Chancellor. Yusuf Kanafi of the Communist Party received the Speaker position, but in return the PEP and Liberal Union were given an additional seat each in the cabinet.
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