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William Lai Ching-te from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won Taiwan’s presidential election.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This should illustrate to those more "China friendly/West antagonistic" that third party voting is a terrible decision. As long as there's a FPTP system, you need to coalesce into two major parties. A third party just guarantees the plurality, whom the majority dislike, will win.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It makes me really glad to live in a country where:

  1. We don't have a president to begin with. I think presidential systems are fundamentally more flawed than parliamentary systems where there's no One Person who inherently controls significantly more power.
  2. Our legislature is voted using IRV (lower house) and STV (upper house).
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And yet it still boils down to 2 right wing parties and I’m forced to vote Labor because I can’t not vote for those arsholes because the only other choice is Liberal which is even more right wing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Come to Greensland! My federal and state members are both Greens, and there's a very good chance that in just over 2 months, the local councillor where I live will be too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's certainly puts and takes to a presidency. There's an advantage to having one decision maker in times of crisis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

There's an advantage to having one decision maker in times of crisis.

Not really, because a Prime Minister in a Parliamentary system has the relevant powers a president would.