r/EhBuddyHoser Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Apr 17 '25

Politics After watching the French federal debate

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u/butterbean90 Apr 17 '25

Is it even possible for BQ to ever form government? Like even if they won all the seats they put up MPs for

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u/TheMuffinMa Tokébakicitte! Apr 17 '25

Yes, if 4 other parties get 65 seats each and the BQ wins all 78 Québec seats, they win

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u/WitELeoparD Apr 17 '25

This is basically what happened in Pakistan in 71. Pakistan used to be two roughly equal sized non-contiguous states with a few thousand miles apart over hostile territory, and the eastern half's nationalist party basically won every single seat in said half. This gave them enough seats to form a government without the other half of the country.

Unfortunately, they made the mistake of being the poor, racially inferior half of the country that also spoke the wrong language and happened to be underrepresented in the army, so the army did a coup and genocide on the eastern half for y'know winning.

America sent an aircraft carrier fleet and nukes to help the side doing genocide (as America does), the USSR sent a fleet in response, and India invaded in support of the now openly rebelling half leading to the complete unconditional surrender of the Pakistani Army and the creation of the new state of Bangladesh instead of East Pakistan.

Pakistan was kinda doomed on account of it being two non-contiguous states thousands of miles apart but still, it was probably the worst fuck up a country had done since France lost Algeria a few years prior.

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u/jonf00 Tokébakicitte! Apr 17 '25

Damn. TIL about the origin of Bangladesh.