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Pineapple on 12 April 2012
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Rath said:
Mummelmann said:
Ah, coalition governments... They really get nothing done, being towed and tugged every which way and never fully committing or deciding.


That's not true - several countries have been governed very effectively through coalitions for a while now. Germany, Finland and New Zealand are all examples.

It's only when you get awkward coalitions that make no sense on paper (eg. Lib Dems and the Conservatives in the UK) that things don't work.


We currently have a coalition government in Norway that isn't working out too well. The socialistic side are in control with a three-party coalition, but one party is by far the largest. You have our version of Labour, one party a few nothces more socialist than that and one party for the farmers and district people. The Labour's company got roughly 35% of the total votes in 2009, while the other ones both got 6-7%.

Effectively, this has caused the situation to be that Labour's controls most stuff, while the two smaller ones control their voters special interests. Whihc, essentially, has resulted in the two smaller ones both directly and indirectly giving more money to their voters than everybody else. This has spurred a wave of corruption scandals in the Norwegian government, and the leader of the most social party had to leave due to corruption.

There's always been a resentment in Norway for coalition governments, and it's only been strengthened by the horrible stuff this government has done. I really have no idea why there's a resentment for coalition governments in Norway, though. The last time we had a government that wasn't a coalition was in 1961, so we've had nothing but coalition governments for over 50 years now.