Posted on 12/07/2015 12:49:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Sarkozy already told the Republicans not to make alliances with Socialists as he believes they’re going to win the whole thing anyway on Sunday.
I couldn’t find the previous pages I’d read. His wikipage has some info about his having brought about early elections by withdrawing his party’s support for the prev gov’t. They don’t seem to recruit candidates to run for office often enough for their own good.
> The Party for Freedom (Dutch: Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) is a right-wing populist[13] political party in the Netherlands. Founded in 2005 as the successor to Geert Wilders’ one-man party in the House of Representatives, it won nine seats in the 2006 general election, making it the fifth largest party in parliament. In the 2010 general election it won 24 seats, making it the third largest party. Since then, the PVV has agreed to support the minority government led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, without having ministers in the cabinet. However the PVV withdrew its support in April 2012 due to differences over budget cuts.[14] It came third in the 2014 European Parliament election, winning 4 out of 26 seats.
(it appears to be third largest)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Freedom
breakdown of parties in the Dutch parliament:
(heading “Summary of the 12 September 2012 Dutch House of Representatives election results”)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Netherlands)
That is the same page I looked at. Doesn’t seem to be the third largest any more.
VVD - 40
PvdA - 36
SP - 15
CDA - 13
** PVV - 12 **
D66 - 12
...
PVV is *tied* at third at 15 seats, same as the Socialists.
Had the UK election results been calculated in the German fashion, UKIP would have 73 seats.
But they weren’t. “First across the finish line” in the UK elections pissed off Nigel F, I remember his quite even-keel statement after the results came out. I think this is it.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/08/ukip-frustrated-share-vote-fails-translate-seats
In countries with many more than two political parties different methods of dealing with plurality-without-majority have been devised. Some countries have multi-part ballots (all completed on the single election day) where first choices are followed by second choices, such that the runoffs don’t have to be held separately.
If seats were not geographically linked, and candidates were elected at-large based on a threshold level of votes (either outright numbers or more likely percentages) there would still be regions or cities or neighborhoods of large cities comprised of hard-core supporters, without there being that permanent incumbency.
The UK’s old practice was a traditional assignement by geographic polity, and that’s what led to “no taxation without representation” ‘round these parts.
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