[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

[Federer91 2,727]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Here's a toast to ruthless dictators!  

There are still going to be elections  Gonna take the peoples love. 

[Olympian1010 7,951]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Here's a toast to ruthless dictators!  

This pretty much sums up the last 5 years of global politics. 

[OlympicsFan 858]

1 hour ago, Federer91 said:

Vladko Putin is going to pass a new law, which will allow him to be President until 2036, when he will be 83 years old.   The guy can truly do it all. 

Why only till 2036? Maybe he wants to retire just after hosting the Olympics for a last time?

[Olympian1010 7,951]

Just now, Federer91 said:

There are still going to be elections  Gonna take the peoples love. 

Yep, definitely free, fair, and transparent elections...?

[Federer91 2,727]

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yep, definitely free, fair, and transparent elections...?

 

Putin doesn't need to rig elections, people there actually do love him in their twisted way  

[Monzanator 4,475]

27 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

This is exactly how someone (or a party) justifies killing democracy by rigging an election...

Polish politics is a two-party system for the last 15 years. We're learning from the most experienced democracies very fast indeed

 

[Olympian1010 7,951]

28 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

 

Putin doesn't need to rig elections, people there actually do love him in their twisted way  

Yeah...I highly doubt that...

[Vojthas 949]

3 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Polish politics is a two-party system for the last 15 years.

While in my city (Swarzędz) none of the mayors for last 12 years has been a member of any party, while the deputy, who was interim mayor in 2007-2008 was from another party than the two leading ones.

[Monzanator 4,475]

31 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

While in my city (Swarzędz) none of the mayors for last 12 years has been a member of any party, while the deputy, who was interim mayor in 2007-2008 was from another party than the two leading ones.

Who needs Swarzedz when Poznan is ruled by basically the same party since 1989?  (since Civic Platform & Freedom Union is the same kind of liberal show to begin with). So, it's not even a two-party crap in the biggest city of your region!

[Vojthas 949]

OK, so let's count it the other way.

 

Out of 2475 mayors (whatever we call them in Poland - prezydent, burmistrz, wójt) - 2007 are non-party ones. More to say - PSL has much more mayors than PO, which includes 3 times more of "burmistrz" than PO (while "wójt" is obviously their strongest part of the statistics).