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I’ll just post this here and get some popcorn.
I’m not up to date on Sri Lankan politics. What’s happening?
Instead of calculating who they hate more, the Sri Lankan people voted for the candidate they liked - an anti-corruption activist who got ~3% of the vote last time and was supported by a fringe left-wing party - and he won the presidency over the candidates of the two established parties.
Ah so this is funny because it disproves the rule. How do you like them apples, Duverger?
Apparently the person who made this meme can’t read either, considering Duverger’s Law is structural.
Duverger’s Law is structural
Or maybe it’s bullshit, designed to scare people into voting for bad candidates.
Even Duverger himself did not consider it some universal law, merely as a statistical trend. A better formulation would be ‘under these conditions, a third party has difficulty forming and attracting voters, and an established party can survive longer than it should, purely based on merit’. Says the exact same thing, but cannot be misinterpreted as easily.
I mean, it doesn’t sound like we’re in disagreement then.
I tend to be touchy on the subject because of some… unrealistic positions sometimes passed around ten minutes before an election in a two-party system.