Questions tagged [coalition]
questions about political parties who work together to form a government
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Why aren't alliances and independent runs more common in the UK?
Both Australia and the UK have single-member constituency-based representative electoral systems with a similar ratio of voters per seat. However, while it is common in Australia for parties to form ...
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Could opposition parties in the Netherlands form a coalition against Geert Wilders?
Geert Wilders' PVV party appears to have taken the largest number of seats in the Dutch election. However, thirty seven seats is far short of the 76 needed for a majority in the 150 seat parliament, ...
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What are some means that multi-party coalitions can use to ensure that they are held as accountable as possible?
The literature on comparative political institutions highlights a
tradeoff between majoritarian/plurality and proportional/consensus
models of democracy. The former arrangement is said to enhance ...
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Examples of planned rotation of power in the governing coalition within the European Union
According to the conditions agreed upon when the Liberals and the Social Democrats decided to govern together in the autumn of 2021, the current Romanian Prime Minister should have resigned and ...
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Why would the SPD prefer a coalition where they are the junior partner to one where they are the largest party?
In the 2023 Berlin elections, the result for the largest parties was:
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Greens
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Left
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80 seats are needed for a ...
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Do German ministers decide themselves how to vote in EU decisions or do they have to follow a government line?
Example/ background: The EU is currently discussing whether there should be a strict law against the sale of cars with a combustion engine starting in 2035. Volker Wissing (of the FDP party) is the ...
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How can we have coalition government under majoritarian representation [closed]
I am having some confusions between the 4 terms: majoritarian representation, proportional representation, single-party government, and coalition government. As I understand, in a majoritarian ...
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What was the longest time it took to assemble a coalitional government?
In democratic countries with party-list voting systems, parties usually do not have an absolute majority, and have to form coalitions with other parties. It may happen that no party manages to ...
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Prime minister leading a coalition government dismissing a member of the government without discussing with political partners first
Romania still does not have a full government following the crisis started in September. Back then, the prime minister (with the approval from the president) quickly dismissed a member of the ...
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Can someone from Queensland or Northern Territory be the Coalition's candidate for Prime Minister?
In Australia, the main centre-right block is a coalition of four parties, known collectively as "The Coalition":
Liberal Party, whose leader typically becomes Prime Minister in a Coalition ...
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What is the benefit of the two-step negotiation process to form a coalition government in Germany?
After an election in Germany, the process of forming a government typically goes as follows:
Parties enter an initial round of talks, termed Sondierungsgespräche (exploratory talk) in German
After ...
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Why does Germany's traffic light coalition seem more likely than ever before?
Even though the parties of the Germany's grand coalition - CDU/CSU and SPD regained majority support in this year's election, according to the commentators, the traffic light coalition has the ...
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Why isn't the CDU / FDP / AFD a viable coalition government in Germany (2021)?
Why aren't these parties considered a possibility to form a coalition government after the 2021 elections? They all represent the right-wing in Germany, and they have enough seats for a majority if ...
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How to split vote-based funding in the case of multi-party electoral lists?
In designing a system of public funding for political parties, I want part of this funding to reward electoral performance. In order to avoid fairly reward each party, the amount of funding is based ...
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How do large party coalition manage to ensure government stability for a fairly long period of time?
I was recently asking about the large coalitions (5+ parties with members in the government) and I was wondering how do they manage to get stable governments with so many parties that have rather ...
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What explains past affinities of minor coalition members in Ireland?
Looking at prior governing coalitions in Ireland, it seems that FG was more likely to have Labour as their minor partner, and FF was more likely to have the Greens. If this is correct, are there some ...
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Is there any European country that managed to construct a coalition made out of more than five parties?
According to Wikipedia, Finland manages to systematically construct a large coalition government (five parties and even six). I am wondering if this is an isolated case in Europe or not.
Question: Is ...
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Is there an European precedent for all coalition in power parties being led by women + female PM?
Not sure if this is more fit on History, but Finland politics offered an interesting situation - all coalition parties are led by women:
Social Democratic Party - Sanna Marin
Centre Party - Katri ...
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Which parties are in the current Romanian government (coalition)?
Confusingly enough, Romania has two liberal parties, one called PNL (National Liberal) which supported the [re-election of] the current president Klaus Iohannis, and another called ALDE (Democrat ...
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Why does Spain's PSOE have such a big problem forming a coalition?
What was the reason PSOE couldn't or didn't want to form a coalition for six months or so, to the extent that it preferred to have second snap election in a year? I understand that it had at least two ...
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What vexillologically (flag-based) named coalitions exist (theoretically) in German politics?
In German political speech, multi-party (three or more party) coalitions are sometimes described by vexillological analogy::
I have seen:
Jamaica coalition between conservatives (black), liberals (...
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Could a coalition government not include the plurality party?
Back during the German elections, I remember a bunch of parties saying they would be unwilling to form a coalition with AfD. That made me wonder--what if AfD had won the most votes without getting a ...
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Why do we need static coalitions?
By the German constitution, every member of parliament has to adhere to their conscience only. In reality, the parties on the parliament usually vote unanimously for some bill. The parties that are ...
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Can a party form a coalition with BOTH Labour and Conservatives in parallel? If so, who wins?
Obviously, this is unlikely in practical political reality, but in terms of the rules and norms for UK Parlament, can the following scenario occur and if so, what happens?
Labour has 324 seats (short ...
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