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Alba Party is 'manipulating' Holyrood election system, claims Willie Rennie

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Scottish Lib Dems leader wants future Scottish Parliament polls to use single transferable vote (STV), the same system used at council elections since 2007 which sees voters rank candidates by order of preference.His party also wants a return to Holyrood elections being held every four years instead of five and support the introduction of a recall function which could see misbehaving MSPs removed from office.Rennie claimed yesterday that Alba - a breakaway party launched last month - was attempting "a direct manipulation" by asking independence supporters to back the SNP in constituencies and Alba on the list vote.Salmond and his supporters argue that by following such a strategy a "super majority" of independence-supporting MSPs will be.

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