Consider the Netherlands

In the upcoming parliamentary elections, which one of the following would you guess is not a real political party a Dutch person can vote for? -A party representing the elderly -A party representing animal rights -A party representing the Linux distribution “Ubuntu” -A “party party” focussed on ...partying? The answer is of course that all of the above are real parties, although I may have misunderstood the “ Ubuntu connected front ”. The first two parties are in the current parliament, holding 3 and 4 seats respectively. Our lower chamber currently consists of 15 political parties,an amount that has gone up over time, with the last two parliaments seating 10 and 11 parties. Our government is a coalition of four parties.  The reason I’m writing this article is to introduce some context for the upcoming election on March 17, especially because the political system in the Netherlands is very different from other countries’. The US has a two-party system, the UK a 3-4 party system, and Ge