in almost any election in every European country the voter presence is 50% or below. I think that's what the comment was about... is just a small % of people that participate in voting and even smaller percentage that votes for the winner.

Average voter participation is 65% in european countries.

The quote I responded to was explicitly about a minority of people who opted into voting. Other parts of the comment included nonvoters, but that's a different discussion.

> the voter presence is 50% or below

What do you mean by "voter presence"? And 50% of what? Of registered voters? Of people eligible to vote?

Because statistics would beg to differ. [^1]

It might hold for european elections [^2], as almost nobody seems to care about those, leading to a low turnout, but that definitely isn’t true about national elections.

[1]: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/these-countries-have-...

[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/05/27/europe...

Surely you've heard of Australia?

This paper discusses minority governments in Australia between 1989 and 2009, a period of two decades in which there have been at least ten examples of this political phenomenon in the Australian States and Territories.

https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/researchpapers/Pages/minor...

If I was paying any attention at all recently it was on the fact that we've had at least a few minority governments since 2009 also.

Finland is having a minority government now too:

With all of the votes counted on Sunday, the right-wing National Coalition party (NCP) won 20.8% of the vote, with the populist, nation-first Finns party scoring 20.1%. Marin’s SDP took 19.9% of the vote. Voter turnout was 71.9%.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/02/sanna-marin-fi...