Sun, 18 Oct, 2015 02:34:21 AM FTimes-STT Report, Oct 18  Parliament building. File Photo Lehtikuva. As expected, the constitutional law committee has decided to recommend to parliament to reject the proposal to reduce the number of electoral districts.
The proposed constitutional amendment would have changed the number of districts from the current 12-18 to 9-12.
Mainland Finland now has 12 electoral districts.
The committee justified its rejection of the proposal by the fact that the current minimums and maximums are guaranteed by law to ensure the proportionality of political elections and regional representation.
In addition, the provision is intended, according to the committee, to ensure that any individual parliamentary majority or efforts by a governmental coalition cannot make significant changes to the electoral system.
File Photo Lehtikuva. The provision on the electoral districts division has been in effect since 1906.
The committee instead proposes that parliament require of the government the start of parliamentary preparations for the reform of election law.
Beginning of the preparations could, according to the committee, get the end result of increasing the voter turnout, enhancing the proportionality of the election, reducing latent electoral threshold and safeguarding regional representation.
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