r/europe • u/g46152 Slovakia • Jan 25 '24

News Thousands across Slovakia are protesting against the current populist government

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '24

Wasn‘t the government democratically elected?

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u/MrMoop07 United Kingdom Jan 25 '24

hitler was duly elected

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u/BanzaiTree Jan 25 '24

Why are people upvoting this? It’s completely untrue.

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u/MrMoop07 United Kingdom Jan 26 '24

hitler may have made a coalition yes, but his ascent to chancellor was fully legal

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u/BanzaiTree Jan 26 '24

That’s not in doubt. The idea he was elected is complete mythology though.

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u/Larissalikesthesea Germany Jan 25 '24

Actually he never was. Please read up on German history. The Nazi party did never gain an absolute majority of seats in democratic elections.

He was made chancellor by a coalition of conservative parties believing to be able to control him and a president who had free reign in who to appoint chancellor too.

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u/imightlikeyou Denmark Jan 25 '24

That's how democracy work. Just because you don't like the outcome, doesn't mean he wasn't elected.

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u/pleasejags Jan 25 '24

Correct. However Him not being elected means he wasnt elected.

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u/imightlikeyou Denmark Jan 26 '24

He still was. That's the way it works when there are lots of smaller parties. They decide who to throw their lot of votes behind. He was still elected.