06-21-2018, 09:48 PM
(06-21-2018, 10:01 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: No system is perfect. I work with people from Germany and New Zealand, who both have proportional representation, and their experience is that you wind up with many different parties, none ever broad enough to get anything near a majority, none of their other large competition willing to work with them, and the minor parties able to crown the winner by extracting very extreme portions of their platform from whoever they crown. Often this can be extremely xenophobic in its result.
What xenophobic party has made it into a governing coalition in (post-war) Germany? For sure I can't remember any.
Yes, the anti-immigrant NZ First is in government today. But no actual cuts to immigration have been made.