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This is not destabilizing this democracy. The FDP has done that same thing before - twice! In 1966 and 1982. Abandoning a non-functioning government and callin

This is not destabilizing this democracy. The FDP has done that same thing before - twice! In 1966 and 1982. Abandoning a non-functioning government and calling new elections is part of democracies. Just ask the Italians (68 governments in 76 years), or recently the French and the Brits.

gmueckl 2y ago
The problem is that the far right is ready to exploit that situation with their broken populist rhetoric and look to gain massively from it. Currently, they are the second biggest faction behind the conservatives in the polls. All the moderate parties have so little support that the only coalition government options are the ones that couldn't stop this growing trend of disillusionment and protest voting in the past.
throw310822 2y ago
> Just ask the Italians (68 governments in 76 years) When each and every government is non-functioning, I'd say that democracy is already destabilised or broken.
itslennysfault 2y ago
I wish the US democracy had this feature. We have to just suffer through it for 4 years.
- mango7283 2y ago
  You have midterms for the Congress though?! That's ever 2 years and actually very frequent for a legislature
  - itslennysfault 2y ago
    Only for the house. Senate is every 6 years. The point though is that we don't have a good mechanism to remove a government that isn't meeting expectations. Impeachment exists, but it is very difficult and has never succeeded at removing a sitting president.
mmarq 2y ago
> Just ask the Italians (68 governments in 76 years) For 50 years Italy was ruled by the same party. Governments changed just to allow more people from the same party to be ministers.
somedude895 2y ago
The coalition falling apart isn't really the problem. The problem is that with the strength of AfD and BSW, and the other parties' unwillingness to work with them, it will likely be impossible to form any coalition with a majority next year, which is sure to be destabilizing simply through how dysfunctional the government will be. Again.

gmueckl 2y ago

The problem is that the far right is ready to exploit that situation with their broken populist rhetoric and look to gain massively from it. Currently, they are the second biggest faction behind the conservatives in the polls. All the moderate parties have so little support that the only coalition government options are the ones that couldn't stop this growing trend of disillusionment and protest voting in the past.

throw310822 2y ago

> Just ask the Italians (68 governments in 76 years) When each and every government is non-functioning, I'd say that democracy is already destabilised or broken.

itslennysfault 2y ago

I wish the US democracy had this feature. We have to just suffer through it for 4 years.

mango7283 2y ago
You have midterms for the Congress though?! That's ever 2 years and actually very frequent for a legislature
- itslennysfault 2y ago
  Only for the house. Senate is every 6 years. The point though is that we don't have a good mechanism to remove a government that isn't meeting expectations. Impeachment exists, but it is very difficult and has never succeeded at removing a sitting president.

mmarq 2y ago

> Just ask the Italians (68 governments in 76 years) For 50 years Italy was ruled by the same party. Governments changed just to allow more people from the same party to be ministers.

somedude895 2y ago

The coalition falling apart isn't really the problem. The problem is that with the strength of AfD and BSW, and the other parties' unwillingness to work with them, it will likely be impossible to form any coalition with a majority next year, which is sure to be destabilizing simply through how dysfunctional the government will be. Again.