merari42@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoThere's European countries who can have several different prime ministers in the span of three monthslemmy.worldimagemessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1880arrow-down129cross-posted to: yurop@lemm.ee
arrow-up1851arrow-down1imageThere's European countries who can have several different prime ministers in the span of three monthslemmy.worldmerari42@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square101fedilinkcross-posted to: yurop@lemm.ee
minus-squareYTG123@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 months agoAnd then there’s Belgium, which apparently holds the world record for longest time without a government. At least introduce time limits for negotiations, guys…
minus-squarepedz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months ago It was possible because of how Belgium is structured with its 6 governments and overall, a strongly federalized state. The historic background is the sharp regional divide between the Flemish-speaking North and the French-speaking South. Therefore, in the case of Belgium, it proved that a federalized state with extensive regionalized competence is on its own stable enough to function well with all its capacities without a federal government for an interim period.
And then there’s Belgium, which apparently holds the world record for longest time without a government. At least introduce time limits for negotiations, guys…
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