Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Not great outcome actually. Going to be very hard to govern on many counts with a minority.
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Nounish Prof ⌐◧-◧🎩
@nounishprof
I feel like a dumb American — they won, yes? I can tell you everything about the Electoral College but no clue about Parliament. (I need to study up)
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Trish🫧
@trish
I have been and I’m still sincerely confused
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@thumbsup.eth
A minority government is officially the party in power but they can fail to hold the “confidence of the house” Basically at any point if the other parties don’t help them reach a threshold of votes on certain issues, namely budget, parliament “dissolves” and we have to go to election again. The numbers Maz screenshotted were much earlier, now they’re way closer. Another option is that any party can form a coalition and if they cross the 172 seat threshold the coalition is a majority. That’s possible between the NDP and liberals here, and I’m hopeful it will happen. For the last four years the NDP propped up a liberal minority without an official minority through a contract called a “supply & confidence agreement.” So there’s no reason to believe a minority is a serious problem.
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@thumbsup.eth
*without an official coalition
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