Germany held a parliamentary election on September 24. The Green Party is expected to enter the new government, in coalition with the Christian Democratic Union and the Free Democratic Party. According to this story, assuming Greens are in the government, the party will seek to implement its policy goals of phasing out use of coal, and making changes to how most automobiles are powered.
Here is the wikipedia page for the 2017 German election. Because Germany uses proportional representation, the Green Party, which polls less than 10% of the national vote, is still in a position to influence policy.
Huh, so the Green and the “libertarianish” (Free Democratic Party) will come together with Merkel’s center-right party. This could be a good thing as a bulwark against authoritarianism.
In PR regimes there is *SOME* actual effort to detect the *median* voters —
ie the 10-20 percent of *middle* folks —
unlike the extremist DARK AGE pack/crack gerrymander district regimes like the USA.
BUT — many PR regimes are FATAL *parliamentary* regimes —
due to the rotted Brits — the same hacks having both legislative and executive powers — and even judicial powers (UK House of *Lords* until about 2005).
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PR and AppV
TOTAL separation of powers
Unfortunately, they shouldn’t phase out coal but instead move coal from power plants to a coal-to-gasoline process and stop the usage of oil. This, in turn, would cut demand in the oil market (and therefore the price), and in turn reduce the ability for terrorist to obtain funding (through stealing oil transports, and confiscating oil fields). This would result in the cost of a barrel of oil plummeting. At the same time, the same amount of CO2 would be removed from emissions (i.e; no more coal used in power plants).
http://www.transgasdevelopment.com/about/process.php
Demo rep the House of Lords itself never had any judicial powers.
The judges – then known as the Law Lords – sat as a separate Judicial Commitee. It wasn’t a free for all debate in the chamber with votes open to all members of the Lords to decide in a case. They heard their cases in a small committee room and only their rulings were read in the chamber. The law lords themselves rarely spoke in debates on legislation let alone took part in votes.
Remember SCOTUS used to be based in Congress itself.
As to executive and legislature the US is actually an outlier in having them separated. until the 1920s an MP being appointed as a minister for the first time had to stand in a by election to have the appointment confirmed by the voters.
One Winston Churchill actually lost a ministerial by election.
It actually aids accountability in that a minister proposing legislation has to stand up in the chamber and make their case under challenge from all parties. perhaps if US cabinet secretaries had to do that then you might end up with better laws.
Love the hair-splitting stuff.
England has NO written CONSTITUTION.
It is a 1066 DARK AGE regime.
The tyrant hacks in control of the regime at any second can do ANY EVIL thing possible by a simple *Act of Parliament*.
Due to the efforts of the EVIL ROTTED TYRANT King George III and his EVIL ROTTED stooge *ministers* in the Parliament to enslave the Americans in 1764-1783, the 1787 USA Const has various items —
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States.
No State shall *** pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law or *** grant any Title of Nobility.
plus the 1789-1791 Amendments 1 to 8.
The State Consts have similar provisions.
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PR and AppV — even in the UK regime.
“Remember SCOTUS used to be based in Congress itself”
From 1810-1935, The Supreme Court met in the Capitol, the building in which the Congress also met. Many State capitol buildings also provide the office of the governor.
“the House of Lords itself never had any judicial powers”
The Law Lords exercised the appellate powers on behalf of the House of Lords (or the Queen/King in Parliament).
Germany does not use proportional representation because there is a 5% threshold in elections and because they use MMP (mixed member proportional) which is not proportional.
Germany’s system is semi-proportional.
Are you interested in pure proportional representation?
The United Coalition has been using pure proportional representation for more than twenty-two consecutive years and it works fine.