Title. Asking because:
- When I was in the US, people glazed NE like it is paradise on Earth
- Recently I moved to NE’s schizophrenic Southern neighbor, where the things I’ve heard about NE is… overall quite messed-up?
- Apparently NE government did some thing about following the US and labeling antifa as a terrorist organization??
… basically above. I have little to no clue about what is going on about NE, and I feel I really, really should have a better grasp of it
iii@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
It’s one of the most democratic countries on earth (1).
There’s the national, provincial and municipal levels. With some weird stuff like water management (waterschap) being it’s own electable agency outside of the typical political system.
On the national level there’s the executive (cabinet), and a 2 tier legislative (parliament and senate).
It has a very low electoral threshold, so new parties can come (and go) quite fast. Last elections BBB (Boer Burger Beweging/“Farmer Citizen Action”) was such a surprise winner. So governance is almost always through a coalition of parties.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Anyone who votes PVV, VVD, BBB or FVD is against democracy.
iii@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Anyone who says how others should vote is against democracy 🙂
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 week ago
The Sea has been shaping NL and it’s society for ages. Keeping it at bay (which is one of the tasks of waterschap I guess) is a life-or-death task.
Very interesting factoid! We should know more about such things in all countries.
iii@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Indeed. I like that they decided that politicians shouldn’t meddle with important engineering. :)