Yeah in practice you’re right - if you live in the Netherlands and are adamant that you’re not voting GroenLinks, I can be fairly certain that you’re also not going to vote D66 or PvdD.
But that doesn’t allow me to go on a rant about two-or-fewer-party systems :P
Unless some politician had a recent shitstorm and no other politician was in hot water currently, I would probably ask who it was they wouldn’t vote for because I would have no clue. The same would apply if instead of a single person, it was about a single party, unless an especially bad one had popped up that election, I simply wouldn’t know which party they were talking about. I don’t even think I’d be suspicious, I’d be too busy being confused or curious.
For context, we currently have more than a dozen parties represented in government and half a dozen that didn’t get enough votes this time around, but are big enough to be recognizable and sometimes getting representatives in government.
I don’t think it gives any indication that there is only two options
Yeah in practice you’re right - if you live in the Netherlands and are adamant that you’re not voting GroenLinks, I can be fairly certain that you’re also not going to vote D66 or PvdD.
But that doesn’t allow me to go on a rant about two-or-fewer-party systems :P
Unless some politician had a recent shitstorm and no other politician was in hot water currently, I would probably ask who it was they wouldn’t vote for because I would have no clue. The same would apply if instead of a single person, it was about a single party, unless an especially bad one had popped up that election, I simply wouldn’t know which party they were talking about. I don’t even think I’d be suspicious, I’d be too busy being confused or curious.
For context, we currently have more than a dozen parties represented in government and half a dozen that didn’t get enough votes this time around, but are big enough to be recognizable and sometimes getting representatives in government.