Re: Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?

On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:41:37 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 3/10/2025 9:03 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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Things seem so much easier in Parliamentary systems, don’t they: it
just takes a vote of no confidence in Parliament to bring down the
Government.

 
It is easier to get rid of a prime minister in that system.
 
But there is also a flip side. It can be difficult to find a PM. After
the election in Sweden in 2018 it took 4 months to agree on a
PM/government. After the election in the Netherlands in 2023 it took 6
months. After the election in Belgium in 2024 it took 8 months.

All using proportional representation? Didn’t one prior Belgian election
spend all except the last few months of the entire term trying to come to
a coalition deal?

Actually I think proportional representation is wonderful. We adopted it
here in NZ, based on the German system. I think the longest it took us to
form a Government was 6 weeks (from the first election under the new
system, in 1996); typically it takes more like 3 weeks.