Hi Maha… yes, this system applies to all our elections: local councils, national parliament, and president. What most people value about this system is that votes are not “wasted”. If your preferred candidate gets insufficient votes to progress to the next round, then your vote transfers to your next choice. And so on. This avoids the need to decide between voting with your heart, i.e. for the candidate who best reflects your values/priorities, and voting with your head, i.e. voting for someone who stands a chance of being elected. So, it works well where there are many candidates to choose from. In a straight Yes/No referendum, such as Brexit, it would make no difference. As you say, we need better election/referendum processes, as the past year has shown. And equally so, we need better ways to deal with leaders, once elected, who lie, flout laws, abuse human rights. Thanks to Louise’s comments, I now know I need to catch up with work in democracy theory/democracy studies. But for now, I need to get back to writing here…