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>Most Poles currently prefer this government to a neoliberal cesspool. Not really. They just don't hate it enough to unite against it. Let's say that there ar
by Jorengarenar 5y ago
>Most Poles currently prefer this government to a neoliberal cesspool.
Not really. They just don't hate it enough to unite against it.
Let's say that there are parties X, Y and Z.
30% of the population votes for X, 30% for Y and 40% for Z.
Now, even if followers of X and Y hate Z more than each other, the winner is still Z.
- jobstijl 5y agoNot in a parliamentary system like they have in the Netherlands.
- tryptophan 5y agoPoland also has proportional representation. A 40% party will need to coalition with other parties if it wants to have enough votes to rule.
- pzduniak 5y agoExcept votes for parties who get less than 5% (if running alone) or 8% of votes (if a Coalition) do not count. So that 40% becomes 52% and suddenly the only thing you can do as a minority party is yell.
- tryptophan 5y agoRules like that aren't uncommon. Netherlands is like the one exception that doesn't require parties to win >4-5% of the vote to get into parliament. And all of these systems are more democratic than what the USA uses.
- dahfizz 5y ago> 30% of the population votes for X, 30% for Y and 40% for Z. > Now, even if followers of X and Y hate Z more than each other, the winner is still Z. In this situation, Z would not win a runoff election though. In 2020 The PiS candidate won the presidential election[1]. I think saying that most Poles prefer the current government is imprecise but still truthful, therefore. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Polish_presidential_election#Results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Polish_presidential_elect...