US congress - has senior and junior senators and house of reps All of them are representative of their county. The MPs will be dealing with national issues and cross-checking national gov. Senate will deal with resolving difference btw National & County gov. Senate will also be more powerful - with powers to impeach president and governors. I hope we stop seeing the nonsense of senate summing governors and that job is done by MCA.
US Congress has Senate and House of Representatives. Senators have senior and junior senator yes, but the Reps come from congressional
districts - same as our constituencies. The districts are based on population - though there is lots of gerrymandering and such politics. Senators clearly represent the states while Reps represent the districts. The two chambers' powers and responsibilities are rationally designed and distributed as such. What I see Aukot as doing is simply making senate "upper house" - but both houses are now
equivalent and none solely represent the counties or checks the Exec any more than the other. They both represent Kenya and check the Exec and each other. No problem.
The bug I see is in assigning each county - 2 rep irrespective of population. Maybe we should have given more reps to more populous counties. But how do we deal with gender? Maybe have one women rep in each county - and others depending on the population ratio - with max of 150mps? So Nairobi with 4M will get say 4 slots and Lamu will get 1....out of the 100 men mps.
How is this a problem? If both chambers - senators and MPs - represent the
county and keep the Exec in check - then population does not matter. That is why senators globally represent the federated regions which are meant to be equal. I don't believe in "equal representation" as in population based boundaries. That's the moronic dictionary "democracy" or "merit" which is faulty. Aukot 2 per county formula is fair.
