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Oooh, politics!
Sep. 11th, 2012 08:43 pmWe have general elections in The Netherlands tomorrow. There are 21 parties to choose from with in total 972 candidates (303 women, 669 men). There are twenty voting districts, in some of them local people are on the bottom of the list, to push votes. All votes count nationally though; all votes have the same weight.
My vote will go to Groen Links, which stands for Green Left and that sums up quite nicely what the party is about *grins* The leader of this party is a woman, which makes it three out of three for all the issues that are important to me. This party definitely represents me and my interests best.
Obviously I hope they get to be part of the government, but I'm sure they will accomplish a lot from the opposition seats as usual:) Currently GL has 6 seats (out of 150 available)
The two biggest parties at the moment seem to be the PVDA (Worker's party = the left/socialists, 30 seats) and the VVD (Liberal party = the right/kapitalists, 31 seats). We'll see what happens...
US-people on my flist: do you have to register before every election?* I was wondering about that because we never need to do that; every baby in The Netherlands is registered at birth. After your eighteenth birthday you automatically get an invitation to vote for every election (local, regional, national). We need to bring this invitation and show our ID to get a voting form. We are not obligated to vote. Last time 75% of people voted (9.4 million) I hope we get a higher percentage tomorrow, but there has been a clear decline in the past few years, possibly because a lot of governments fell apart before their official four years were over. (Including the current coalition of VVD, CDA (Christian party) and PVV ("Freedom" party=rightwing)
Let's hope this time we manage to get a group together that will be able to finish the full term...
*FYI: I'd love to hear about the electorial process from every nationality on my flist:)
NOTE to MEMERS: I will respond tomorrow, tonight it's time for The Great British Bake Off! *runs to couch and tv*
My vote will go to Groen Links, which stands for Green Left and that sums up quite nicely what the party is about *grins* The leader of this party is a woman, which makes it three out of three for all the issues that are important to me. This party definitely represents me and my interests best.
Obviously I hope they get to be part of the government, but I'm sure they will accomplish a lot from the opposition seats as usual:) Currently GL has 6 seats (out of 150 available)
The two biggest parties at the moment seem to be the PVDA (Worker's party = the left/socialists, 30 seats) and the VVD (Liberal party = the right/kapitalists, 31 seats). We'll see what happens...
US-people on my flist: do you have to register before every election?* I was wondering about that because we never need to do that; every baby in The Netherlands is registered at birth. After your eighteenth birthday you automatically get an invitation to vote for every election (local, regional, national). We need to bring this invitation and show our ID to get a voting form. We are not obligated to vote. Last time 75% of people voted (9.4 million) I hope we get a higher percentage tomorrow, but there has been a clear decline in the past few years, possibly because a lot of governments fell apart before their official four years were over. (Including the current coalition of VVD, CDA (Christian party) and PVV ("Freedom" party=rightwing)
Let's hope this time we manage to get a group together that will be able to finish the full term...
*FYI: I'd love to hear about the electorial process from every nationality on my flist:)
NOTE to MEMERS: I will respond tomorrow, tonight it's time for The Great British Bake Off! *runs to couch and tv*