It's a common mistake to judge the entire west from an US perspective. But the UK is not very far from the 2 parties system either.
Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils
by dukeyukey on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @08:48AM
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Arguably the UK is a "2-party-but" system. The main parties are limited in their policies towards Scotland because of how much influence the SNP has, and we've seen what UKIP managed to do while barely ever winning seats. There's enough of a threat from smaller parties to keep the big ones somewhat cooperative, or at least take a wider range of views into account.
Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils
by malka on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:25AM
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France is closer and closer from a 2 parties system
Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils
by sofixa on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:19AM
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Bullshit, look at any election from the past 5 years and there are at least 5 mainstream parties - PS, LR, RN, LREM, EELV. PS are in a bit of a crisis but still do decently in local and European elections.
Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils
by LunaSea on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:42AM
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France is currently a 1 party system.
Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils
by sofixa on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:21AM
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France is always a 1 party system in regards to who is in direct central power, since parliamentary elections are just after presidential ones, to send the winning president a parliament they can work with. In almost all cases the ( slim) majority the ruling party has falls apart over the course of their term.
And that's why there's an indirectly elected upper chamber ( Senate), to avoid a populist wave changing too much.
Could you elaborate on this? Very few countries i know in the west have a 2-party system.