Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Hoog" channel.

  1. Hum, something should be done to ensure a shared voter base for the parties. Parties that wants something and has appeal among multiple ethnic groups should be rewarded over parties with roughly equivalent ideology that only appeals to some of the ethnic groups. There's other ways to ensure good representation.
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  2. 7:43 You have 16 political parties for about 17 million people, Norway has 10 political parties for a bit over 5 million people... I think that we got you beat when it comes to people pr million people of population... Your parliament has 150 seats, ours have 169 seats. 8:08 For 150 of the 169 seats we have in Norway we also have no threshold for entering. And the smallest political party in our parliament had just 4 908 votes, making them the third biggest party in their constituency. 4 908 voters out of 3 003 290 total voters in the election. I believe that's about 0,16% of our voters voting for that party in total and they still got a seat, as it's a whole lot less voters then the 0,67% required in Dutch elections. However in Norway there's also 19 seats that do have a voter threshold of 4%. Meaning that while we don't stop smaller parties from getting representation there's a lot of potential extra power available if you can clear that threshold, meaning that smaller parties have a incentive to merge or at least not split up, while larger parties don't have much holding them back from splitting up. It leada to a lot of medium sized parties
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