Every party that wins over four percent of the votes gets to be part of the parliament. The percentage of the votes that each party receives also decides how many mandates they get out of the 349 mandates in the parliament. The party who wins the most votes gets to form av government. The Prime Minister, which usually is the leader of the winning party, personally hand picks the ministers to make up the Cabinet.
These two systems are quite different, even though they have a few similarities, such as the elections taking place every four years and the voting age being 18. The swedish election process is much less complicated and way shorter than the american process. And I think it does affect the voter turnout. According to Statistic Brain 2016, only 57 percent of americans eligible to vote voted in the 2012 Presidential election. Meanwhile in Sweden 85.81 percent voted. My hypothesis is that because the american election is such a drawn out process, many americans do not have the mentality to see it …show more content…
The American people are on the verge of electing a president who does not believe global warming is real, is racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic and so on. I have had a really hard time trying to understand how it is possible that Donald Trump got this far in the election. But when you think about it, it actually makes sense. You see, Trump might not be a politician but he is a businessman and he knows how to sell things - including himself. I have noticed that when he speaks he uses a very simple language and he repeats a lot which makes it easier for people who are not interested in politics to keep up. He feeds into people's fears more than he gives any actual solutions to problems. But what scares me the most is not all his lies, it is the fact that his supporters know that he lies but they just do not
These two systems are quite different, even though they have a few similarities, such as the elections taking place every four years and the voting age being 18. The swedish election process is much less complicated and way shorter than the american process. And I think it does affect the voter turnout. According to Statistic Brain 2016, only 57 percent of americans eligible to vote voted in the 2012 Presidential election. Meanwhile in Sweden 85.81 percent voted. My hypothesis is that because the american election is such a drawn out process, many americans do not have the mentality to see it …show more content…
The American people are on the verge of electing a president who does not believe global warming is real, is racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic and so on. I have had a really hard time trying to understand how it is possible that Donald Trump got this far in the election. But when you think about it, it actually makes sense. You see, Trump might not be a politician but he is a businessman and he knows how to sell things - including himself. I have noticed that when he speaks he uses a very simple language and he repeats a lot which makes it easier for people who are not interested in politics to keep up. He feeds into people's fears more than he gives any actual solutions to problems. But what scares me the most is not all his lies, it is the fact that his supporters know that he lies but they just do not