Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "What's Gone Wrong for the German Government?" video.

  1. ​​ @gameofender4463 ctually this is a symptom of you guys not having enough coalition governments. Parties are too uses to getti their way and not having to make compromises, and so are the electorate. If you guys switch to a electoral system that is less likely to unfairly favour bigger parties and you get more political parties with real political power you'll see that it's actually healthy. Here in the Nordic countries we all have coalition governments every single time. And because we're used to it that works great. Indeed here in Norway our 169 seat parliament has 10 political parties represented right now for our 5,4 million population. While your parliament that currently has 736 seats only have 5 political parties represented for a population of freaking 83,2 million people. Only a single one of our 10 parties are down to a single seat. Two have 3 seats, two have 8 seats, one has 13 seats, one 21, one 28, one 36 and finally the biggest has 48 seats in this term. The current goverment is a minority coalition, but they could have formed a majority if they wished with one of the other parties. But said party refused to join as long as companies are given new areas to search for oil (drilling in existing areas where fine, and we're not talking a permanent ban, just no searching during the term). Since that concession wasn't made they choose to support the formation of the current government coalition but not take part in it as a member, so they're not obligated to support them in everything. Meaning that they'll have to get a shifting majority on a case by case basis in the parliament. We're used to that, so it's not a big deal. We've even had cases of governments having to run a budget created by the opposition in the parliament since that had a larger share of the votes. They'd of course still decide the details themselves, but that way we avoid a lot of problems. If a coalition can't work something out then just leave it to the parliament to come to a solution. Or use the coalition agreement as a starting point.
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