[georgebcrawford]

New Zealand isn’t on that list, but two parties generally take 70-80% of the vote. Last election (~65%) was an outlier due to the two leaders being pretty unpopular.

However, NZ has a proportional voting system that leads to coalitions forming governments. This is considered a good thing, but can lead to…interesting outcomes. The current government is very much the dog being wagged by a couple of nasty tails. Current PM is a weak “I've run a company so can run a country” type.

[nephihaha]

NZ is like Ireland. A two party system with other representation. It is also unicameral, and has no president so elected rulers switch between the two.

[yunnpp]

> Current PM is a weak “I've run a company so can run a country” type.

Hopefully a successful company, that is.

[georgebcrawford]

He was successful at Air NZ from memory. But they're completely different jobs. For example, he cut services and jobs which helped increase profits. Not uncommon for an airline. The same approach when running a country is disastrous and not uncommon for out of touch neoliberals like Luxon.

His management experience at Air NZ has not correlated with strong leadership. Compare him with the previous PM (Jacinda Ardern) and most Kiwis, even the right, would agree she handled things better. A few lefties like myself think she could have done more (especially wrt to housing policy) with the immense political capital she had just before Covid, but oh well.

You didn't ask for any of that sorry!

[yunnpp]

It was interesting to read, thanks. I know very little about NZ.