Severing ties with the US can take more than a year and cost thousands of dollars. But Paul, Ella, Margot and thousands of others feel they have no choice
There’s a lot I didn’t know about the process. It’d be interesting to get the view of US members of this community.
The party leader from the party forming government needs a mandate from the electorate.
As in, when you cast a vote to elect the party to choose a leader and form government, it’s reasonable and expected for that party to tell you what their proposed government would look like and who their leader would be.
Imagine if Labor won an election with Albo as leader during the campaign but then he stepped aside a few weeks later and the party made Wong the new PM. That’s not the structure that the electorate voted for, and although “technically” permissible the vast majority of the voting public would rightly feel that it’s not the government they voted for.
There are of course exceptions - hypothetically suppose there were a sudden unexpected invasion from one of our neighbours in SEA, a party might elect a “war time” leader to be PM. Given the dire circumstances, there might be bi-partisan support for the move, and the public might support it.
Generally though when a party elects a new leader as PM they’ll move to election as quickly as possible in an effort to receive that mandate from the public.
No, I think it is a technicality.
The party leader from the party forming government needs a mandate from the electorate.
As in, when you cast a vote to elect the party to choose a leader and form government, it’s reasonable and expected for that party to tell you what their proposed government would look like and who their leader would be.
Imagine if Labor won an election with Albo as leader during the campaign but then he stepped aside a few weeks later and the party made Wong the new PM. That’s not the structure that the electorate voted for, and although “technically” permissible the vast majority of the voting public would rightly feel that it’s not the government they voted for.
There are of course exceptions - hypothetically suppose there were a sudden unexpected invasion from one of our neighbours in SEA, a party might elect a “war time” leader to be PM. Given the dire circumstances, there might be bi-partisan support for the move, and the public might support it.
Generally though when a party elects a new leader as PM they’ll move to election as quickly as possible in an effort to receive that mandate from the public.