First of all, thank you very much for having me today and giving me the opportunity to share a few ideas about electoral reform, what I have to say with respect to the five principles guiding the mandate of this committee, and hopefully the choice of an electoral system alternative for the country.
I want to reiterate those five principles: effectiveness and legitimacy, to reduce distortions in electoral outcomes; engagement, to foster greater participation; accessibility and inclusiveness, to make sure no undue complexity is introduced in the electoral process; integrity; and enforced and continued attachment to local representation.
I want to start by saying that I will argue that principle number four should be treated separately. No electoral system alternative that we've been looking at, and certainly that I have surveyed, actually can directly, as an inherent matter of the electoral rules, address and treat electoral integrity.... There are alternative ways, administrative or legislative, that I think would be better considered to promote that.
With respect to the main electoral system alternatives, as you no doubt know, electoral systems fall into major families, proportional on the one hand and majoritarian/plurality electoral systems on the other. The advantage of the former, of course, is that they promote greater participation, and we know—