Thank you.
To the translator, I'm skipping the first two paragraphs and the fourth one.
Having in the late sixties been part of a merger that gave me a family connection to Germany, I have given some thought several times since then to proportional representation. I have concluded that it is an oxymoron: there is no representation at all, and the resulting governments, wherever it has been tried, give disproportionate weight to the lunatic fringe.
Elizabeth, I do not include the Green Party in that last group.