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Because the Prime Minister asked her to. So was it really the whim of one unelected person or the whim of the democratically elected leader in an undemocratic s

• vkou 4y ago
  The PM that no longer had the confidence of parliament a month after the election of his minority party. It's reasonable for the PM to ask for such a self-serving thing, it's not for that ask to have been acquiesced to. There were three options (that I can think of) for dealing with that situation: 1. Allow the coalition to form government. 2. Hold another election, a month after the previous one. 3. ...Suspend parliament for a few months, so that the coalition can't hold a vote to push the minority government out! #2 is pretty nuts, but kind of justifiable, but #3 was absolutely nuts. (And had the bonus points of threatening that a non-confidence election half-a-year after the previous one is 'okay', despite Parliament being entirely non-functional for most of that intervening time.) That there aren't clear rules about this, or that a minority PM can prevent a majority coalition from ousting him is the maddening part.