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Isn't that bascically a "free mandate", i.e. what every liberal democracy (that I know of) uses?
Free mandate is about what they can do, virtual representation is about what they are expected to do. In a functioning democracy, you should expect a representative who fails to represent local issues to lose the next election unless most constituents agree with the virtual representation idea
You can just convince the people that yous hand was forced to not adress local issues, creating a de facto virtual representation.
Making sure that doing that is not easy is one of the reasons we need independent journalism
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