[SaxxonWoods]

Just a fantasy question: Imagine we have 4 recognized political parties, Left, Center-Left, Center-Right and Right. Alliance would be required to get anything done. Could it work better than the 2 party system?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Just a fantasy question: Imagine we have 4 recognized political parties, Left, Center-Left, Center-Right and Right. Alliance would be required to get anything done. Could it work better than the 2 party system?

Ask Geert Wilders.

Nowhere it is tried has it ever worked.

[jjotto]

Israel’s Knesset has 120 seats and 12 recognized political parties.

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Would it really be worse than what we have now? A two party system or a four/five/six party system both work well enough when society works and is generally united. Neither works when a country is deeply divided as we are now. It also helps if not much depends on politics. France gets along well enough now with a multi-party system. France in the 1930s was a mess with its multiparty system.

What usually happens though, is that the center right and center left party govern together in coalition, often with the implied support of the far left, leaving the "far right" as the odd man out. They are discontented and people who are discontented are labelled "far right."