Comment on It's been a feature of Australia's elections since federation. Albanese supports a change
Joshi@aussie.zone 3 weeks agoThe US has a weird political culture in a lot of ways. I know France and Germany have fixed term lengths and I certainly don’t get the impression that they have that problem.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
My perception, based on the election cycles I followed, is that, in Europe, the campaign period tends to be bigger when it becomes clear there will be early elections.
For normal elections the campaign period is usually about 1 month. And for early elections there’s the entire dance around bringing the government down for a few weeks, and then everyone will be on full campaign mode until the election.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
We already have parties getting into campaign mode way earlier than 1 month. The election probably won’t be until May, but there’s already a strong sense that they’re in campaign mode.