There's European countries who can have several different prime ministers in the span of three months

merari42@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

There's European countries who can have several different prime ministers in the span of three months

YTG123@sopuli.xyz · 1 year ago

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…

RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 year ago

And what happened? I guess not much, life just went on?

pedz@lemmy.ca · 1 year 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.

speeding_slug@feddit.nl · 1 year ago

One positive on the Dutch coalition talks. We can always say that our southern neighbours take even longer…

On a more serious note, the last three coalition talks in the Netherlands took over 200 days, with one taking 299 days. Sure, not even close to over 500 days in Belgium, but how the hell does this happen?