@Tero But when voting in euro elections, you vote for a party at some point, right? Theres a check box next to a party name

To have a place in the eu

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idk how european elections work
here it's person

MPs and so on can change party mid term

@Tero yes, that's my point

here being australia

EUROPEAN UNION ELECTIONS, SENATE ELECTIONS, WATERMANAGMENT ELECTIONS, PRIME MINISTER ELECTIONS

We got a shit ton of elections to partake in

Well you're more similar to American elections than Europe at this point @Tero

We even got a election in wether we wanted the Aivd to gain extra spy privilige on us

And we happend to vote yes <:makes_you_think:382980749780844554> <:HonkHonk:566814473646768128>

@Deleted User But is it people on the ballot, or a party?

People

People on the ballot

You cant vote for the party you have to vote for the person which is in that party

i should say though, ours says people but also the party they're running with

and most people understand it as voting for a party

So really, I'm not even criticizing either of your systems

I'm criticing the ones where your vote is for an impersonal party

are the EU elections actually like that tho

like didn't the UKIP EUMEPs defect to brexit party

In the eu elections we vote for the person

over here we have vote and the personvote

Broo posted his ballot for something and it was just parties

Thats britain

Britain isnt a democracy

Netherlands is a democracy

to choose which party gets a seat, and who we want to have a seat either in our lcoal region or in the parliment

See the difference

I'm running to get a seat in my local communehouse next year 👌

@MountainMan see that sentence right there "which party gets a seat"

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Parties don't get seats, people get seats

thats why we also have person vote 👌

problem is that not many people care much about the personvote. people care about the parties more.

But what do you mean by "a party gets a seat"?

so in parliment there are seats, and the percent of vote for a party gets a percent of the seats.

but there are many seats, and we can choose the people who get a seat from each party.

in the local commune system its basically the same, but you dont really need to be a part of a party.

that's kinda cool