The JDA believes that the need for electoral reform is one of the most pressing challenges facing Jersey today.

With the past term of Ministerial government now demonstrating quite clearly that an Assembly of 53 ‘independents’ remain wholly incapable of delivering any meaningful reform it would be easy to simply reiterate the fact that a change to a party political system offers the obvious solution. The rejection and subsequent ‘cherry picking’ of the Clothier Report has already left us with a Ministerial system that simply cannot operate effectively without party politics.

The JDA has led the way in attempting to begin to address this, proposing a number of reforms that would have made the island’s Government more transparent, accountable and democratic in line with widely expressed public wishes.

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