Question for y'all living in countries with parliamentary systems.
What makes people choose to oust a popular PM?
Not talking about True Dope, but one with consistently high ratings. In the post-WWII era, three out of nine German chancellors (their PMs) have had stays in the neighbourhood of fifteen years.
Merkel retired voluntarily. But what about others? If a PM is popular after 8 or 10 years, what makes people want to change? It's not like the parties get huge additions or reductions in voters. Is it just a feeling of "time for a new one?" Or something else?
(In the U.S. we have term limits for the President. Usually eight years, and the theoretical max is 10 years minus one day, which would require a Vice-President to succeed to the Presidency halfway-plus-one-day through the late President's term, and then be re-elected twice.)
What makes people choose to oust a popular PM?
Not talking about True Dope, but one with consistently high ratings. In the post-WWII era, three out of nine German chancellors (their PMs) have had stays in the neighbourhood of fifteen years.
Merkel retired voluntarily. But what about others? If a PM is popular after 8 or 10 years, what makes people want to change? It's not like the parties get huge additions or reductions in voters. Is it just a feeling of "time for a new one?" Or something else?
(In the U.S. we have term limits for the President. Usually eight years, and the theoretical max is 10 years minus one day, which would require a Vice-President to succeed to the Presidency halfway-plus-one-day through the late President's term, and then be re-elected twice.)