The government has not obtained a mandate from the people if an unfair electoral system has been used. We know that first-past-the-post is a form of democracy but that is not sufficient to give the state a mandate, we must use a proportional system. (Democracy alone is not enough.) Without pr the government has no mandate.
It is not so much a contradiction for the state to have failed to be democratic (fptp qualifies as democratic) but that the state has failed to be exposed to a proportional system. Non-democracy, whilst being a contradiction, is not the only contradiction, there is a further contradiction for those who seek to rule which is non-proportionality.
The government has an obligation to use the best and most challenging (from their perspective) form of democracy which rules out fptp. The government has an obligation to see the truth (not to be insane) and not to deny that pr is preferable to the alternative (first-past-the-post). The government must be attentive to the needs of the people if it seeks to rule them and within those needs is included proportional representation. The truth is that pr serves the people better than fptp and to claim that fptp is the best system is an obvious lie because there is an internal contradiction in that fptp accepts some democracy but not full democracy. There are no contradictions as far as the truth is concerned so fptp must not be true, it is false.
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