Curious how France is described as political chaos because two parties with ≈60% of the seats in Parliament will negotiate a PM, whereas Netanyahu is always described as the will of the Israeli people, rather than the negotiated choice among eight parties with 53% of the seats.
got an aunt in France -- not a LePen supporter -- who is wailing about the country being "ungovernable" because there's no single majority
if I'm facing a choice between "ungovernable" and "gladly governed by fascists" I'm going to be absolutely delighted to get the former
The French are so funny because they will spend months getting into fist fights with the police over incredibly granular changes in national policy, but also think any devolution of power to the departments would be tantamount to anarchy.
Well the Canadian right rules with a "strong stable mandate" when they win 40% of the votes. But when the left has a minority government with 60% of the votes between 2 parties it's "a strong message that people are unhappy and they would do well to collaborate with the Cons"
Wasn't there a year where Israel had something like three elections, because Bibi couldn't get enough support from either voters or the Israeli parliament to be PM?
