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-square97fedilinkarrow-up1876arrow-down127cross-posted to: yurop@lemm.ee
arrow-up1849arrow-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-square97fedilinkcross-posted to: yurop@lemm.ee
minus-squareRecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoAnd what happened? I guess not much, life just went on?
minus-squarepedz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 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.
And what happened? I guess not much, life just went on?