Instead of instantly knowing the results of who will be president, we Dutch enjoy a democratic tetris of multicolour politics.

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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Be thankful that you have that option. Look at the US or UK to see the failures of a first past the post voting system.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago

    Yeah I love it, its better that most systems I've heard of, hate how the larger parties are mostly right-wing.

    Ranked voting looks interesting too, as is solves the swing votes from one to another, lots of Socialist Party voters sway to the Fascist FvD, and Liberal (D66) voters that occasionally vote Social Democrat (Pvda). And we also get one issue parties that matter for the year but loos support quickly afterwards.

    I'll defend it until I find something better.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    We're getting closer to proportional representation in the uk! PM just started the first step a few days ago, I just hope it doesn't stall and end up a damp squib.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    And when you manage to put the House of Lords into the history bin and replace it with an upper house representing the Counties/Shires, your democracy would have arrived in the 20th to 21st century. Which is far ahead of the US...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    imagine having to wait until after the election ends to know the result. this comment was brought to you by the authoritarian dictatorship inc., elect 1 dictator and get 1 free

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago

    I think you’ve lost me, my country has 15 different political parties in parliament.

    As most of the large parties had hard NO on other parties thus: a minority formation still needs to find majority consensus with the parliament on most matters.

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