Coalition government to be formed in the UK after 70 years
An interesting fact of the recent UK election that the winning party never had to think about forming coalition government with an other party in the last 70 years, but this trend is going to change now – former BBC journalist, Peter Pallai said.
It’s the first time in 70 years that the winning party has to form coalition with another party in order to establish the new government, Peter Pallai announced. The journalist also added that seventy years ago the coalition government formed in a war situation and it was meant to express the unity of the nation and not really the outcome of the elections.
This years UK election held on the 6th of May resulted in a win of the Conservative party, however they didn’t gain absolute majority which is required to form a stable government, so now they are forced to cooperate with the Liberal Democrats in order to establish the new government.
This situation is especially interesting as the British election system was built in a way that it usually secures absolute majority for the winning party and it rarely occurs that a coalition government is going to be established. The winner takes it all principle normally is valid, but it seems not in this case.
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