Madam,

On Tuesday, 6 February, hundreds of people went on a 24-hour hunger strike to call for proportional representation in our elections.

This year we celebrate the centenary of the first votes for women. Tribute is being paid to the suffering and sacrifice of the suffragettes and suffragists including going on hunger strikes, which led to that victory for democracy.

Our current system is a failure.

Last year we had the third successive election which has either produced a hung parliament, or delivered a tiny parliamentary majority.

The First Past The Post (FPTP) electoral system is clearly now failing on its main selling point – that it nearly always produces a strong and stable one-party government.

It can not be right that voters who do not want to vote for one of the main parties in their area have to vote for someone they don’t really want to keep out a candidate they dislike.

We need fair votes for all.

Yours etc,

Moth Foster, Rhydybont, Penparcau, Aberystwyth.

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