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Aug 22, 2010 12:32

I also just wanted to say to my Australian friends, "Welcome to the world of hung parliaments ( Read more... )

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zeecoldwater August 22 2010, 17:02:52 UTC
Meanwhile, with a sensible proportional representation system, Ireland managed to land itself a hung parliament for a brief time, which was resolved shortly before Bertie Ahern resigned as Taoiseach, thus dodging responsibility for the whole sordid mess.

Irish politics are unique in that the divide is not exactly left vs. right, though, so we're sort of ... different.

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metawidget August 22 2010, 17:40:37 UTC
Kind of like Quebec politics (only we're still stuck with first past the post).

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