Talk:List of political groups by country

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We should make a clear clear difference between an alliance and a coalition over 'ere... --PaxEquilibrium 22:03, 2 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Crna Gora, is that a political Alliance? I believe it's a coalition, and not an alliance. --PaxEquilibrium 23:19, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Probably a mistake
These comments are based on the "Latest revision as of 09:10, 17 February 2021" version of this article (the "Political alliance" article).

The opening sentence of the second paragraph of the article currently says:"Coalition governments are formed when a political alliance comes to power, or when only a plurality (not a majority) has not been reached and several parties must work together to govern."and (as you can see) it contains a superfluous instance of the word "not".

That sentence should (and does) contain at least one instance of the word "not". The occurrence of the word "not" in the (parenthetical) phrase "(not a majority)" is sufficient. It is supremely adequate. The presence of another occurrence of the word "not", in the locution "has not been reached" is incorrect.

How to fix it
My ["minor"] suggestion is: to remove the word "not" right after "has" and right before the words "been reached". Doing that would change"when only a plurality [...] has not been reached" -- which seems kinda crazy to me -- into"when only a plurality [...] has been reached"which sounds more logical. Besides the fact that [the main point, there, is that] it is a majority -- not a "plurality"! -- that has not been reached, I would also point to the presence of the word "only" as evidence that the intent was, or it should have been, to say that only a plurality [...] has been reached. IMHO the locution << only a plurality [...] has not been reached >> was obviously not intentional.

Any comments?
Before I go to edit this article, now might be a good time for some comments ... if any.

Thanks for listening. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 14:44, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Merge
Very similar pages Political group, Coalition, Political alliance. Not to be confused with Coalition government, Parliamentary group. HudecEmil (talk) 04:57, 30 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Renamed to List of political groups by country, closed. HudecEmil (talk) 01:45, 2 October 2022 (UTC)