Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "644 Days Without a Government: Belgiums Complex Politics Explained - TLDR News" video.

  1.  @gammarayneutrino8413  He has great videos on a lot of electoral systems, not seen a good one for proportional systems though. At least not the one in my country.
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  2. @minerva BE Hey, as a Belgian, how do you feel about the suggestion I made elsewhere in this comment field (not this thread) about how to solve the issue? It's based on the Norwegian model but leaving out our use of land area as a part of our system for defining how many seats a electoral circle is given. (So square km and number of citizens both counting towards how many seats we have in a electoral circle, but I don't think that part of our system would be useful in Belgium, but I think other aspects of it might be)
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  3.  @JL-yi2tm  60 000? That's even less then the Sami population in Norway (80 000) who also got their own Parliament btw...
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  4. (Solution to the Belgian problem follows after this preview, click the "..." to read more) Regarding a video about proportional representation, yes please! Also, let me know if you guys want a hand in researching the details of how that works in the nordic countries. (I can help you with Iceland, the Faero islands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Åland. As for how to fix the situation in Belgium... Simplest solution: Make it official that no cabinet can be replaced till an alternative is presented and that the parliament can present a alternative at any time. That encourages cooperation. Anyone who isn't cooperating ends up losing power to parties that do, and if no-one can then whoever could do so last time ends up in power. Also, given the regional splits I suggest that any party that makes it into the federal parliament in the previous year should automatically be available on the ballots everywhere in the country, regardless with what culture and language they represents. That gives the voters more choices and should with time discourage political splits between cultures in favor of actual policies. How many seats each region is given can be balanced based on political, cultural and linguistic considerations (for instance a 50-50 split between the Flemish and Walloon areas and extra seats for areas like the German regions and possibly more or less for the Capital region depending on what's perceived as more fair. Then just add leveling seats to each region that's not given based on the proportional popularity of a party in that region but in the nation as a whole but where the representatives are still from said region. All of this would encourage fighting for seats everywhere instead of just in the areas dominated by your own culture and language. If your region has a higher population then another region but less representatives then you can use that higher number of voters to get leveling seats either as a small or big party but you'd need your representatives to be local in those regions meaning that people from that area would be important to your party and its values, it's political appeal and the amount of power you'd get. So say a Flemish based party would have Wallonian representatives to negotiate with their counterparts in the party with its power base in Wallonia, and as a result you wouldn't have to deal with those pesky a-holes of x or y ethnic group but instead would have someone with a shared cultural background but with differing political ideals actually discussing things together and relating to each-other.
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  5. I agree. Although I'm somewhat worried that this team being based in a country with first past the post might be somewhat... biased against it and might not see all of its genuine strengths.
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