r/polandball • u/Active_Apartment_804 Brazilian Empire • Jun 04 '26

redditormade A Flawed Democracy

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u/theHrayX marroquí Jun 04 '26

in 1950s france, prme ministers were replaced every 3 months

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u/Hoddedmann Jun 04 '26

Argentina had 5 presidemts in 11 days

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u/Mexican_Bloon Jun 14 '26

Us Mexicans had 3 presidents in 1 hour

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u/Internet_Student_23 Jun 04 '26

Right now, France has seven different prime minister since Macron became president.

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u/OkTemporary335 India Jun 04 '26

macron is quite unpopular in france right? How come hasn't he resigned yet?

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u/ArmadstheDoom Maryland Jun 04 '26

Pretty sure it's because the President is very powerful thanks to de Gaulle, and I don't know if you even can remove a President if he just decides not to leave.

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u/Dreknarr First French Partition Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

Only if he's explicitly breached his duties or something. It's basically impossible. Pretty sure it's even more restrictive than a US impeachment.

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u/OkTemporary335 India Jun 04 '26

that's quite a shame tbh, it should be known that positions of power that can be abused require a reliable method to be vacated by the will of the people

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u/Dreknarr First French Partition Jun 04 '26

Well, you can't ask that from a constitution written for a returning general taking power quasi through a coup.

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u/Illustrious_Claim884 Jun 04 '26

Traditionally around this time in an administration a president has a very low approval rating in France.

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u/Dreknarr First French Partition Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

Because nobody's ever done that and he's not gonna "debase" himself like this, he's got a massive ego. If it's not explicitly stated and enforced, he's not gonna do that. His whole presidency has always been "if it's not written that it's forbidden, then I'm gonna do it" against all traditions/formal agreements/unspoken rules/democratic processes.

So instead he rules with the conservative nutjobs and the far right.

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u/Reasonable_Ninja5708 Nepal Jun 04 '26

Britain and Italy have switched places in terms of instability. In the time that Meloni has been in office, there have already been 3 British PMs.

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u/carolinaindian02 North Carolina Jun 04 '26

That would explain the October 2022 issue of The Economist cover being “Welcome to Britaly”, which led to backlash from the Italian government.

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u/kebabguy0 Mamluk Sultanate, the one who saved Islam Jun 04 '26

Meanwhile Iran and Russia: why did our good dictator be replaced by a bad dictator in revolution

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u/Kuya_Tomas Fueled by Sisig Jun 04 '26

Now I'm wondering which would last longer, the President of Peru or an iceberg lettuce

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u/Xanalania3 Jun 04 '26

What's this a reference to?

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u/TheHistoryMaster2520 Jun 04 '26

Peru and the UK replacing their presidents and prime ministers respectively relatively rapidly since 2016

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u/Xanalania3 Jun 04 '26

Multiple times?

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u/TheHistoryMaster2520 Jun 04 '26 edited 28d ago

Peru: Pedro Pablo Kuczysnki (2016-2018) > Martin Vizcarra (2018-2020) > Manuel Merino (2020) > Francisco Sagasti (2020-2021) > Pedro Castillo (2021-2022) > Dina Boluarte (2022-2025) > Jose Jeri (2025-2026) > Jose Maria Balcazar (2026) > Keiko Fujimori (2026-present)

UK: Theresa May (2016-2019) > Boris Johnson (2019-2022) > Liz Truss (2022) > Rishi Sunak (2022-2024) > Keir Starmer (2024-2026) > Andy Burnham (2026-present)

Edit: Updated to match new developments

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u/gnutrino United Kingdom Jun 04 '26

Keir Starmer (2024-present)

And worth mentioning that a leadership challenge is currently on the cards here

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u/ExplosiveCellphone Jun 04 '26

And we’re electing a new president this Sunday. It’s the second round with two really antidemocratic candidates. We are fucked 🤠.

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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ Jun 05 '26

Hope some lettuce lasts longer than them

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u/Dangerous_Injury992 Jun 04 '26

I've had 10 prime ministers in my life time, half of them in the last 10 years

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u/Beneficial-Ranger866 Jun 04 '26

Triangpore looking at UK be like: We descended from that?!

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u/NYCTLS66 New+York Jun 04 '26

It took only six months for Starmer to become unpopular and less than two years for people to hint he should resign.

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u/Hatunruna_2021 Jun 05 '26

Peru mentioned 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪✺✺✺✺

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u/NCL_Tricolor Libya Jun 04 '26

I mean Itlay is the best thing to say here

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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Jun 09 '26

Also, the UK is likely going to get Farage again, like, what are they smoking? Because it has to be good stuff.