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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Just curious, but is that how it is done in other countries where coalitions are the norm? It's hard to imagine that it is as any party that openly campaigns for a coalition is pretty much admitting that they don't think they can win a majority. It seems like a self-defeating strategy.
As mentioned previously in this thread, people don't elect governments; they elect parliaments, and the parliament we elect chooses how to form the government. A government led by a minority party is no more or less democratic than one led by a coalition. Unless the argument is simply that the leaders were not forthcoming about it before the election, in which case I don't think there has ever been a democratically eleced leader ever.
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Agreed, the perceived democraticness of the coalition was actually irrelevant. To me it's a case of making the rules work for group A, in light of the fact that Group B doesn't hold a majority.