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Re:Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; by m000 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @06:52AM (#45345288)

You are just rationalizing a deeply undemocratic process. These are the exact self-serving arguments that the winners make to legitimize a fundamendally unpopular government.

Also, in practice, no, you cannot make a political party in Greece. There's a country-wide threshold of 3% that you need to exceed to get into the parliament. A lot of well-organized parties struggle (and often fail) to exceed it. So even if you get 100% in an electoral district, you won't get its respective parliament seats. In fact (IIRC the tidbits of the election law), you will be making the first party stronger (and I don't mean by depriving votes from the second party).

This is not unlike other Western democracies. But this is essentially a design to cull any grassroot movements. Not very democratic.

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Re:Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; by gruez on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @08:23AM (#45346021)

>Also, in practice, no, you cannot make a political party in Greece. There's a country-wide threshold of 3% that you need to exceed to get into the parliament.

You can quibble about whether a 3% threshold is "democratic" or not, but for all practical purposes if your movement can't get 3% you stand no chance of getting your policies enacted.

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