09-12-2024, 11:13 PM
(09-11-2024, 02:51 PM)KevinL Wrote: A first-past-the-post voting system doesn't help either, as that leads to a small number of large parties where control regularly fully swings between them. Something more proportional would foster a larger number of smaller parties, usually making governments in coalitions, meaning power transfers more gradually, and long-term projects are more feasible.
well, that doesn't seem to always work out; NZ sometimes has had cross-party agreements between National and Labour, the 2 big parties, to ensure stability. However National has been busy undoing lots of good things that Labour did last term without a clear replacement strategy (sound familiar?) and they have also been being pushed by the wacko libertarian ACT party funded by Atlas and whose leader was trained in part in Canada (sigh).