I am sorry to waste precious space in your newspaper to have to repeat that, in developed European democracies, it is a majority of parties representing the majority of voters which has the right to govern.

For all Mr Angelo Micallef’s talk (Lessons in true democracy TMID, 14 October), no, a party with 35.2 per cent of the popular vote, be it the biggest party or not, has no God-given right to govern, since it does not represent a majority of voters.

Is such a basic thing so difficult to understand? With regard to a programme of government, yes, it is obvious that the parties forming a governing coalition have to negotiate and come to an agreement.

If the parties having the support of 90 per cent of the electorate would like to form a government, then certainly nobody can stop them from doing so! Neither can one stop two parties, representing say 49 per cent and 10 per cent of the electorate (that is a total of 59 per cent), from coming to an agreement to form a government.

I repeat: the only danger of a representative pluralistic democracy is to the status quo and to the PN and MLP.

Ralph Cassar

Attard