Minority government joining

[hollaalla]

I have a question that has puzzled me for a while - Lets say there are are 3 parties running for prime minister. Party A got 35 seats, Part B got 35 seats and Party C has 60 seats. So at this point, Party C is in Government. But what happened if Party A and Party B join? Then Party C would have 60 seats where Party AB has 70 seats. Is there a new election or something? What happenes to the Prime Minister?

[TheThing]

im guessing your from england, mister no profile. i think if party A and B join, then they would get 70 seats and that would be that

[hollaalla]

At 3/22/06 09:14 PM, thething69 wrote: im guessing your from england, mister no profile. i think if party A and B join, then they would get 70 seats and that would be that

Canadian :) I should make a profile, shouldn't I? No I am a pure Toronto born person, not England. If party A and B joined up, then they would be head gpvernment, but the people voted for Party C, so is it any fair?

[Lhotun]

At 3/22/06 09:19 PM, hollaalla wrote: Canadian :) I should make a profile, shouldn't I? No I am a pure Toronto born person, not England. If party A and B joined up, then they would be head gpvernment, but the people voted for Party C, so is it any fair?

But more people did vote for party A and B after all... so how would it be fair otherwise?

After all, a majority didn't vote for Party C, so you could perhaps say it wasn't really fair that they were in charge to begin with.

[hollaalla]

At 3/22/06 09:46 PM, Lhotun wrote:

But more people did vote for party A and B after all... so how would it be fair otherwise?

After all, a majority didn't vote for Party C, so you could perhaps say it wasn't really fair that they were in charge to begin with.

Fine... But how does the government change? If Party A and B join, would the givernment lets say just chanhe from conservatives to Liberal without any other election? Shouldn't there be a re-election?

[TheTrueMrJack]

Shouldn't there be a re-election?

In a world with no problems with money, yes.

[sweede]

C isn't even sure to be governing the country, If A and B choses to have an alliance they will rule the country. (if they join too)
About the reelection, it's probably different in different countrys....
Mayor part of countrys considered to be democracies are ruled by minor goverments that rule with the help of smaller parties.

[Lhotun]

At 3/22/06 09:59 PM, hollaalla wrote: Fine... But how does the government change? If Party A and B join, would the givernment lets say just chanhe from conservatives to Liberal without any other election? Shouldn't there be a re-election?

Well, the government really doesn't change from conservatives being in control to liberals, as the conservatives were never really "in control," they just had more seats than everyone else. A simple coalition government (as mentioned by sweede) would override the conservatives without the parties having to join. The biggest difference from that and the parties joining is... well, in one scenario the two parties are working together to take control, and in the other the two parties are joining to take control. Not really a big difference if you look at just that short period of time; except for perhaps legalese and semantics.

Ask yourself this, what if a politician decides to change from the majority party to the minority party during a 51-49 split? Of course, thats pretty much the same result, but with a different situation.