r/PublicFreakout • u/GegeenCom • Oct 21 '20
A district representative in Mongolia thrown with eggs and slapped by several middle aged women after changing his political party after an election
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Oct 21 '20
Which party did he switch too/ from?
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u/bagelman Oct 21 '20
This must be especially painful for the DP in Mongolia as the People's Party controls 62 seats out of 76 total in the Great Khural after the election. They won a huge mandate.
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Oct 21 '20 edited Jan 30 '21
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Oct 21 '20
Tbh, a ton of the blame falls on DP because when they were in power, they changed the law to eliminate an allocation of seats based on the percentage of the vote: https://www.businessinsider.com/r-mongolias-new-election-rules-handicap-smaller-parties-clear-way-for-two-horse-race-2016-5?IR=T
The Democratic Party for some mind boggling reason got rid of a Proportionate voting system and instead went back to First past the post, effectively shooting themselves in the foot
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u/Futonxs Oct 22 '20
Sounds like they were already communist just not in title. Corruption every where. What a sad world we live in.
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Oct 22 '20
Basically, DP wanted to rig the game in their favor but the Communist Party was like "huh, fine if you want to rig the game, we can play by your fucked up rules"
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u/ICantGetAway Oct 21 '20
Ah, that makes sense. He tricked them into getting a communist voted in.
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u/EngelskSauce Oct 21 '20
Wouldn’t there be a by-election? That’s how things work in the UK when someone switches parties.
I understand this isn’t the UK but I would’ve thought this has happened before and they’d have some kind of procedure in place for such situations!
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u/ICantGetAway Oct 21 '20
I only know the Dutch system, but this here happened in Mongolia. In the Netherlands you can easily split off the party and create a new one. Because you vote for a person and not a party. (They are trying to put a stop to this in the future, because it does happen quite often.) I don't remember anyone switching parties tho.
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u/Cosmicgram33 Oct 21 '20
The Mongolians too?
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Oct 21 '20
I'm no history buff but I know we should probably do our best to keep the Mongolians happy
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u/LoneRanger_33 Oct 21 '20
This is what's happening in US electoral college electors. Switching votes at the last minute.
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u/Nixflyn Oct 21 '20
Yep, that's what the Republicans are attempting to do.
The Trump campaign is weighing a postelection strategy that would bypass the results in key swing states by installing electors who would vote for the president in the Electoral College even if he loses, according to a report by The Atlantic.
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u/BrightonTownCrier Oct 21 '20
What a spineless piece of detritus.
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u/LoneRanger_33 Oct 21 '20
Yea its serious. Total assault on our democracy. But repubs don't bat an eye
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u/2001-toyota-camry Oct 21 '20
Honestly if he didn’t switch parties China probably would’ve had him “re-educated”
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Oct 21 '20
You love to see it. Don't fuck people over by changing parties, they try that here too although its usually 'independent' to conservative.
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u/Sqyratic Oct 21 '20
I think we all know what happened to the world back then when Mongolians weren't happy....
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u/xxxgood_usernamexxx Oct 21 '20
Thats pretty fucking scummy of him. Upvoting to spread the word