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Right, not starting anything, but normal countries have a general election should their parliament serially fail to produce a functioning (at least in name) legislature.

So without naming names, if any large federal republics with a 9 digit population in the western hemisphere need an intervention, blink twice.

in reply to Sarah Brown

They don't need a caretaker government, since the executive is elected independently of the legislative.

They do need the concept of "provisional budget".

What they need the most is proportional representation in the House. The states could even do it under the current constitution.

in reply to Sarah Brown

I'm thinking of a western federal republic with 9-digit population which fits that description but doesn't have that option because that's not how elections work here...er I mean 'there'. (Unfortunately. Maybe. Who knows, in the place I'm thinking of triggered elections would almost certaily result in [even more] chaos.)
in reply to Cyberspice

@Cyberspice Oh, I suspect the USA can only dream of merely exhibiting NI levels of dysfunction.
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