US election process may seem strange – but it is not as absurd as our own

If the USA had our system, then both Biden and Trump would serve as joint President, each unable to even sign a letter without the other.Instead they have the fundamental democratic right, which we are denied, to change their government.

In that we should envy them. Voting a party out of government is a fundamental democratic right denied to us under the absurdity of mandatory coalition.

And the result – chronic dysfunctionalism in Stormont.

Jim Allister, TUV leader

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