Here's my attempt to label the ratio of votes from our last election in "American Terms"
The government that actually formed is:
* xD (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn / Independence Party / "Republicans")
* xA (Björt Framtíð / Bright Future / "Democrats")
* xC (Viðreisn / Renewal / "Never Trump Republicans")
It's xA - Björt Framtíð that left, which I'm sure you can understand. What I find amazing is that they joined in the first place, and everything else about xD wasn't enough to drive them off. They're horribly corrupt. Remember the Panama Papers scandal? The two parties that were up to their necks in it were xD and xB (xB is an (ostensibly rural) conservo-populist party... and generally gets its votes by proposing some sort of giant "we'll give you tons of money and nobody's ever going to have to pay for it!" policy)
The coalition I was hoping would form was xV-xP-xA-xS-xC. But xC wasn't up for it. Sure, it would have been a lot of parties for a coalition, which means instability. But there's actually a lot that they could have worked together on.
xB felt rather like a leper last time. They got a moderate number of seats, but everyone had gotten sick of them and didn't want to work with them
The government that actually formed is:
* xD (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn / Independence Party / "Republicans")
* xA (Björt Framtíð / Bright Future / "Democrats")
* xC (Viðreisn / Renewal / "Never Trump Republicans")
It's xA - Björt Framtíð that left, which I'm sure you can understand. What I find amazing is that they joined in the first place, and everything else about xD wasn't enough to drive them off. They're horribly corrupt. Remember the Panama Papers scandal? The two parties that were up to their necks in it were xD and xB (xB is an (ostensibly rural) conservo-populist party... and generally gets its votes by proposing some sort of giant "we'll give you tons of money and nobody's ever going to have to pay for it!" policy)
The coalition I was hoping would form was xV-xP-xA-xS-xC. But xC wasn't up for it. Sure, it would have been a lot of parties for a coalition, which means instability. But there's actually a lot that they could have worked together on.
xB felt rather like a leper last time. They got a moderate number of seats, but everyone had gotten sick of them and didn't want to work with them
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