• xmunk
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    1 year ago

    That’s… not how parliamentary governments work.

    You’re not voting for a PM, you’re voting for an MP and if a bunch of MPs from different parties decide to band together in a coalition they can force in a government from a non-plurality party.

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      1 year ago

      Doesn’t matter how it works in the technical sense. Many people will vote or not vote for a party based on their leader.

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        1 year ago

        That’s cool - but it still won’t result in a third party spoil. Because the system doesn’t work like that.

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      1 year ago

      I … dont see how that applies to what I just said. You’re ignoring a lot about politics and looking at the “bright side scenario” to come to that conclusion, it’s unlikely to happen and is still advantageous to conservatives eho can do the same. You’re still voting for a party on a spectrum

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        1 year ago

        It’s not an unlikely scenario, the past two elections haven’t resulted in a majority government (which I personally think is extremely healthy). If this poll was the seat proportion on election day we’d likely see something a bit rarer where the plurality party would be excluded from government but it’d be pretty consistent with the past two elections… Trudeau’s popularity slumps while CPC palatability to other Canadians continues to decline. Lil’ PP certainly isn’t going to attract any centrist voters.