Mummelmann on 11 June 2018
That's really sad, but not all surprising. Lobbyist influences and a lack of proper direction doesn't help thing improve either. Things are slowly getting worse over here as well, on a structural level at least, and even though we don't have a two-party system, we may as well for the variety we get. Parties amass in blocks and coalitions and tiny parties are given big influence by acting as the final piece of the coalition puzzle, rendering the whole point of direct vote democracy a lot less meaningful, if not pointless.
