…even though Wilders’ Freedom Party garnered the most votes in the recent election. This is the problem with the Parliamentary system of Democracy.
Back in November, 2023, veteran anti-Islam populist leader Geert Wilders won a dramatic victory in the Dutch general election. But to fulfil his pledge to be “prime minister for everyone”, he would have to persuade other parties to join him in a coalition. While the results show an overall victory for parties on the right, Wilders’ anti-mass Muslim immigration, anti Islam, anti-European Union and Ukraine-skeptic manifesto was perceived to be beyond the pale for other coalition parties.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Yeah the deep state. They will do this everywhere and at any time then to lose power before our nations are destroyed is not the plan.
Ray Jarman says
One only needs to look at the parliamentary type of government since the 1950’s in many of the European nations, especially Italy, which has had twenty-four governments since 1950. In Germany, a party like the Greens have been able to influence the choosing of a PM when it has only a small percentage of vote during elections. In a presidential type government such as in the US where a party, led by a presidential candidate, is elected on its own merit rather than relying upon a third or even lesser party to hold office for a specific period of time with built in safeguards such as impeachment for maleficence and the 25th Amendment. As has been the case in recent decades, the members of the two major parties have reached out to other politically oriented groups to obtain a majority of the electorate and electoral college as laid out by the framers of the Constitution to ensure that a president is represented by more than one over populace section of the nation. In parliamentary type governments, there is no such protection.
In a presidential government where the leader is elected by name vice party, Kurt Wilders would be sitting in a presidential suit in Den Hague. I personally believe that Germany and France would have different outcomes in their elections also. One last point that I personally favour presidential style government over parliamentary mode is stability even though at times I have a fleeting wish for a No-Confidence but only for a brief period of frustration.