2026-09-30 10:07 UTC
National Dutch pastime after an election
Instead of instantly knowing the results of who will be president, we Dutch enjoy a democratic tetris of multicolour politics.
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@Treczoks@lemmy.world 2026-09-30 11:11
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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@Lumidaub@feddit.org 2026-09-30 10:53
You’re not special, we do similar nonsense in Germany, only we have a 5 percent hurdle which does make it easier to predict. And doesn’t result in four-party-coalitions*, goodness gracious, that sounds stressful. Is that normal? * instead it’s usually two of the same four parties. I don’t know if that’s better. Edit: I realised that my tone probably doesn’t translate to text. I do definitely prefer this over other systems, I’m just also aware of its absurdities, like the squabble over who’s going to coalitionify whom.