merari42@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoThere's European countries who can have several different prime ministers in the span of three monthslemmy.worldimagemessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up1887arrow-down128cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1859arrow-down1imageThere's European countries who can have several different prime ministers in the span of three monthslemmy.worldmerari42@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square103fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarepedzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months ago It was possible because of how Belgium is structured with its 6 governments and overall, a strongly federalized state. The historic background is the sharp regional divide between the Flemish-speaking North and the French-speaking South. Therefore, in the case of Belgium, it proved that a federalized state with extensive regionalized competence is on its own stable enough to function well with all its capacities without a federal government for an interim period.
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