General elections are due to be held in a country to constitute the next government. A voter who recently became eligible is anxious to vote for the first time. The voter evaluates the performance of three political parties on the criteria governance, employment growth, and quality of life when those parties were in power in the past. The voter uses the AHP technique she learned in her quantitative methods classes. She has prepared four pairwise comparison matrices as follows:

Based on the data, which party will she vote for?

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Criteria Governance Employment Growth Quality of Life Party Party 1 Party 2 Party 3 Governance 1 1/2 2 Party 1 1 1/4 2 Criteria Employment Growth 2 1 4 Governance Party 2 4 1 3 Quality of Life 1/2 1/4 1 Party 3 1/2 1/3 1