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Should coalition partners be required to reveal agreements before voting starts?

Should coalition partners be required to reveal agreements before voting starts? Advance clarity helps voters, but bargaining depends on results that do not yet exist.
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  1. Justice · Starter

    Parties can publish their red lines before results without promising a completed coalition.

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  2. Kieran · Starter

    Detailed advance deals may be unrealistic when nobody knows which partnerships can govern.

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Parties can publish their red lines before results without promising a completed coalition.
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Detailed advance deals may be unrealistic when nobody knows which partnerships can govern.
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