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American here. Now I know some nations within the EU have proportional voting but I have to ask, how difficult is it to unseat a politician? How difficult is i
by Shivetya 8y ago
American here.
Now I know some nations within the EU have proportional voting but I have to ask, how difficult is it to unseat a politician? How difficult is it to do so within their party, are there the equivalent of the US primary system?
For the US, unless they are not running the chance of reelection is very high so without some sort of political shift not governed by one of our two parties is near impossible.
- nickcotter 8y agoJust to clarify - all European Parliament elections (not member state elections) have to use proportional representation. What exact type they use varies.
- zaarn 8y agoDepends on the memberstate, in germany the politicians are seated by the parties with longer lists on which you can vote.
- mantas 8y agoIt's more about changing power ratio between parties rather than unseating a specific politician. If a known politician fucks up badly, they can get elected next time even if their party support drops a lot. And that's still a win for the opponents.
- jnaddef 8y agoFrench here. To be honest in France almost nobody knows who is seating at the European Parliament, we have absolutely no visibility to what is being voted, even less who voted what. A commonly accepted view (at least around me, I might be biased) is that our representatives there are useless, whoever they are. We had about 60% abstention in 2014's elections, I think that says it all.