To be fair (French here), we love to make fun of your elections but ours in not much better.
We elect our president in two rounds and only keep the two best candidates for the second round. So if every candidates has around 10% of votes, two rather niche candidates could get to second round. To avoid this, it means that candidates that have compatible-ish ideas should team up on compromises but apparently that’s not a competitive strategy (compromises make you look weak maybe ? 🤷)
So yeah, we can also have weird results. But at least we have a large panel of ideas that gets represented-ish (our society gets more and more polarized too, and this is frightening).
Realistically you can become president of the US with 22% of the population. https://youtu.be/7wC42HgLA4k For more information.
To be fair (French here), we love to make fun of your elections but ours in not much better.
We elect our president in two rounds and only keep the two best candidates for the second round. So if every candidates has around 10% of votes, two rather niche candidates could get to second round. To avoid this, it means that candidates that have compatible-ish ideas should team up on compromises but apparently that’s not a competitive strategy (compromises make you look weak maybe ? 🤷)
So yeah, we can also have weird results. But at least we have a large panel of ideas that gets represented-ish (our society gets more and more polarized too, and this is frightening).