[Iran Press TV Latest] Hundreds of British protesters take to the streets of London to demand electoral reform after the country's general elections closed with no outright winner.
| Golly. Hundreds? They'd get that many between stops on a pubbing run on a Saturday night. |
Demonstrators chanting "fair votes now" gathered outside a building where Liberal Democrats were discussing a power sharing deal with the Conservatives on Saturday, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Protesters called on Liberal Democrat party leader Nick Clegg to honor his promise and push for democratic and proportional representation of the British public.
Clegg, who had said on Friday that the results of the General Elections showed the British political system is broken and needs major reform, addressed the crowd and vowed to make their voices heard.
Protesters believe the electoral system is very unrepresentative and undemocratic where millions of votes are effectively wasted and millions of people are disenfranchised.
Thousands of Britons were denied the right to vote on Thursday due to polling stations closing or running out of ballot paper.
Britons want the Liberal Democrats who have entered into coalition talks with the Conservative party, which won most seats in Thursday's elections, to put voting reforms on top of their agenda and use it as their bargaining chip to reform the voting system. |