2025-19 Dutch elections on Oct 29th
Monday, September 22, 2025
Deborda

In 2023, the PVV got 23.5% of the vote.  Therefore, in theory, it should have had about 23.5% of the government.  Alas, (like nearly every other democracy), the Dutch parliament divides itself into two - a government versus an opposition (as if there were only two parties).  And Wilders' PVV party got 9 of the ministers, which is way over 23.5%.

An all-party power-sharing coalition would be more democratic.  Then, in decision-making, in each ballot, instead of getting a majority from a short list of only two options, parlaiment could identify the option with the highest average prefence on a short list of about six options.  It's called pluralism.

So Dutch democracy would work like this.  The electorate would elect a parliament, ideally by a preferential form of PR. About a week later, the parliamnet could elect an all-party cabinet, again by PR, using a Borda matrix vote.  And parliament could base its future decisions using the above preferential (and non-majoritarian) ballots.

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