And people wonder why I am so pessimistic about Europe!

Currently polling number in Germany

The Afd benefits from the electrol system

@HM - King of UK + Commonwealth Don't trust polls in Europe

They're not reliable

The AFD are staying quiet for now

They will start coming out around now

Hmm 🤔 any poll has margin of error

After the attack on the AFD member

Yes but parties like the AFD are different

Italian Election polling

They stay quiet and come out and don't compare Italian parties with German parties XD

But the poll for Germany seems accurate

Which is suprising really

I’d say Italy is as well

The way the parties' work I mean

Italy is about noise. Germany is about strategy

The polls show it

The AFD have very small spikes

But gradually grow

Sweden still is in coalition negotiations

Ik and it's hilarious

Electarol reform doesn’t work

Wdym by Electoral Reform?

What about single transferable vote

No

Would work simmilarly to first past the post but eliminate the need for tactical voting

FIRST Past the post

Is fair most votes is the winner

Cos if you vote for a small party that dosent stand a chance you're not helping the main party on the other side of the political spectrum

The problem is that in other electoral systems, extremist parties grow easily

Europe is an example of that

Aye

@HM - King of UK + Commonwealth America use a first past the post style system and hillary got the most votes but Trump won

That can happen and it’s still fair

STV dosent have that problem because you continue giving votes to second choices until a party has a majority

How is that fair?

It had happened four times before

Trump got a landslide victory without the popular vote

It happened before dosent make it fair...

It's effectively making some peoples vote worth more than others