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Manitoba’s Green Party is calling for proportional representation and would push for it if elected on Sept. 10.

Green Party deputy leader and Union Station MLA candidate Andrea Shalay announced the pledge on Saturday, saying that the current system allows political parties in the province to govern with a majority without winning the majority of the votes.

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“This is not fair to the majority of the voters and is not how representative government should work,” she said in a release.

Shalay said the Greens would introduce a mixed-member proportional representation system into the Manitoba Legislature, one where the majority of seats would still be allocated by the traditional first past the post system, and the remainder of the seats would be filled based on each party’s share of the popular vote.

The Greens say that if this was in place during the 2016 provincial election, the current Progressive Conservative government would have been less 10 seats, with the Greens having three in the House.