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Post by bancroft on Oct 23, 2024 10:33:33 GMT
Current President has said as 29% of vote winner is so low he has the right to form a coalition to stop the Right. The Right disagree and say as the winners it is their right to form a coalition. Messy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx252kedeppo |
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Post by Red Rackham on Oct 25, 2024 12:40:53 GMT
Current President has said as 29% of vote winner is so low he has the right to form a coalition to stop the Right. The Right disagree and say as the winners it is their right to form a coalition. Messy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx252kedeppoTypical autocratic lefties, they're all for referendums/elections, as long as they agree with the result. No doubt the EU has full confidence in Alexander Van der Bellen. |
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Post by Paulus de B on Oct 25, 2024 13:17:07 GMT
Under the parliamentary system, the prime minister is the person who can form a government acceptable to the majority of the house. First-past-the-post normally leaves Britain with one party having an absolute majority of seats, so that party's leader is the obvious prime minister, but there's no inevitability about it. The Austrian situation is evidence of the system functioning as it's supposed to. If a coalition of other parties can form a viable government and the the largest party cannot, then their leader is the obvious PM.
In the Netherlands, currently, a right-wing coalition is led by someone who isn't even a member of any of its parties. Belgium is still under its previous government, the most recent general election having been a mere four months ago, there hasn't been time to form a new one yet. The leaders of the two largest parties are highly unlikely to become prime minister, since they're both Flemish separatists and have no support outside Flanders. This sort of thing is normal with proportional representation. Under PR, Sir Keir Starmer himself, with only 33.7% of the votes, certainly wouldn't be a shoo-in for the job.
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Post by Red Rackham on Oct 25, 2024 14:40:53 GMT
Under the parliamentary system, the prime minister is the person who can form a government acceptable to the majority of the house. First-past-the-post normally leaves Britain with one party having an absolute majority of seats, so that party's leader is the obvious prime minister, but there's no inevitability about it. The Austrian situation is evidence of the system functioning as it's supposed to. If a coalition of other parties can form a viable government and the the largest party cannot, then their leader is the obvious PM. In the Netherlands, currently, a right-wing coalition is led by someone who isn't even a member of any of its parties. Belgium is still under its previous government, the most recent general election having been a mere four months ago, there hasn't been time to form a new one yet. The leaders of the two largest parties are highly unlikely to become prime minister, since they're both Flemish separatists and have no support outside Flanders. This sort of thing is normal with proportional representation. Under PR, Sir Keir Starmer himself, with only 33.7% of the votes, certainly wouldn't be a shoo-in for the job. The fact remains, the Freedom Party who won the general election are being kept out of power by left wing politicians. Austria’s mainstream politicians are combining to ensure that the winners of last month’s general elections, the far right Freedom party (FPO) are kept firmly out of power. The Alpine republic’s president, Alexander Van Den Bellen – aligned with the Green party – has invited the current chancellor, Karl Nehammer, whose centre right People’s party (OVP) came second in the elections, to form a coalition explicitly excluding the FPO, which topped the polls with 29 per cent, running on an anti-immigration, pro-Putin platform. www.spectator.co.uk/article/austrias-far-right-is-shut-out-of-power-again/This is the classic left wing response to anyone who disagrees with them. The very reason FPO won the election is because the electorate are sick of being ignored. Hopefully, in attempting to shut FPO out of government, Van der Bellen will do little other than to anger voters and push them further to the right. |
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