A week before the British parliamentary elections, the two largest parties are in a dead-end race, but the uncertainty before the vote also contributes to the unknown of who will form a coalition with whom and what kind of government will be formed in general.
The polls do not predict a clear victory for any party, the repetition of the current coalition is not possible, the creation of another one also does not seem likely, so there is speculation in Great Britain about a minority government or even a grand coalition of the two largest parties, which last happened in the Second World War. and for the first time in the First World War.
According to the latest research, as reported by the BBC, Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives have the support of 35 percent of voters, while Ed Miliban's Labor Party has 34 percent of the vote.
The minority coalition partner Liberal Democrats of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have only nine percent of the vote, which makes it impossible to repeat the current coalition.
A majority in the parliament requires 326 deputies. In the previous elections, the Tories won 36,1 seats with 306 percent of the votes, and the Liberal Democrats won 23 percent of the votes, i.e. 57 deputies, so they had a comfortable majority.
According to polls, the Conservatives can now count on around 280 MPs, the Labor Party on 270, the Scottish National Party (SNP) on 47, and the Liberal Democrats on 27. The Eurosceptic right-wing party Ukip, despite having more support than the Liberal Democrats, can expect two , a maximum of three deputies.
The Liberal Democrats could once again decide on the formation of a new government, but Clegg put forward a condition - for the Conservatives not to seek the support of the Eurosceptic Ukip, and for the Labor Party not to rely on the separatist SNP.
Problems with forming a solid ruling coalition have fueled speculation that a minority government could be formed.
Since the end of the Second World War, 18 parliamentary elections have been held in Britain, 16 of which produced a majority government of one party, while three were minority governments, according to the BBC.
The first was after the 1974 election, when Harold Wilson formed a minority Labor government. In October of the same year, Wilson called elections again and secured a majority of three deputies. However, after the defection of MPs, Labor lost its majority, so Jim Callahan formed a minority government in 1976. The third coalition government was under the conservative John Major, who lost his majority in 1996 due to the defection of MPs.
In addition to the mention of a minority government, speculations about an "unthinkable" grand coalition occasionally appear in the British media.
Great Britain last had an alliance of the largest parties in 1940 during the war and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
The first large coalition of liberals and conservatives was formed in 1915 during the First World War. Meanwhile, there was a peacetime national coalition from August 1931 to 1940, when Labor, Liberals and Conservatives came together in the government.
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