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Originally Posted by danielf
I wouldn't say the Netherlands has had a nightmare due to similar conditions. Politics over the last 10 years have been somewhat turbulent, but generally speaking Dutch politics is quite stable. Due to PR there is never a single party in power, and generally politics tends to be more consensus based, which I think is a good thing (and not an obstacle to getting legislation on the books). Another good thing is that people don't keep harping back to whatever a party did in the 70s or 80s to prove their point that a certain party is inherently evil. It ****es me off endlessly in the 'debate' here.
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Popular media seems to disagree with you that it hasn't been a nightmare. decisions taking an extremely long time to get anywhere due to infighting within coalition, and eventually PM resigning after coalition collapsing over support or otherwise for Dutch presence in Afghanistan.
I would call a coalition being too busy fighting amongst themselves to accomplish things and eventually causing government to collapse and force an election that may result in a strong far-right presence a nightmare.