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To: norton
He said the DSS should ask voters at the elections...

That's rather strange cause it's the DSS that is pushing for early elections, where mr. Korac is strongly opposed to it. Perhaps the fact that his "party" couldn't gain more than 0.2-0.3% of the votes (generous assumption)has got something to do with it.

But his statement shouldn't be easily disregarded simply cause he's a clown for everyone's amusement. Usually leaders of microparties in coalition voice opinions held by the major party and do their dirty work. That's why there are strange coalitions like former SPS-Yul in Serbia and DPS-SDP in Montenegro.

3 posted on 09/11/2001 12:49:10 AM PDT by Marko37
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To: Marko37
Perhaps the fact that his "party" couldn't gain more than 0.2-0.3% of the votes (generous assumption

Marko, you are right. That's what happens when you have a bad immitation you call Yugo-Serbian "democracy." In real democracies, coaliton partners are not microscopic parties, and coalitions are not made up of dozens of parties.

In fact, the parliamentary system is inherently unstable and, in the long run, undemocratic. The executive power rests in the hands of an unelected person -- head of government (the prime minister) instead of the head of state (a monarch or a president). Worse, coalition provides disproportionate power and infleunce to coaliton members who couldn't win an election alone and whose lack of popularity is incongruous with the level of infleunce they have in the government.

Besides, the parliamentary system collapsed in the former-former Yugoslavia (the Kingdom of), and required the king to abolish the parliament to establish direct rule. It seems that Yugoslavias (the former-former, the former and near-former) functioned much better under direct rule.

Realistically, Korach's party and Zharko himself would be a non-entity in any real instead of a make-believe country.

7 posted on 09/11/2001 7:45:40 PM PDT by kosta50
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