Short excerpt from a YouTube interview (uploaded by James Laughlin) in which a speaker (David Seymour) answers what he sees as the true essence of a coalition government: shared incentives to make government work so as to avoid a disruptive snap election and to deliver on promises to voters. The speaker also notes that participants are generally experienced in working through challenging situations.
What is the true essence of a coalition government and how are you finding it? Well, what you got to remember is that there's a lot of common incentive, that everyone has one thing in common, they want the government to work. Because if it doesn't, then you're back to an almost unprecedented snap election, which we don't normally have in New Zealand, and you don't get to achieve the things that you promised the people that gave you the ticket to be there in the first place, that is the voters. So that's a very powerful driver. The second thing is that, you know, most of the people involved in different ways, pretty used to, to working and challenging situations.
