03-15-2006, 07:21 PM
Both parliament and local elections are every 4 years. Locally, it isn't really an achievement to get high on a list - being capable and wanting to do it is enough. Not a lot of people desire to represent the people in the local council, because it's a drain on your social life (mostly meetings in the evenings), takes a lot of hours (a full time job is out of the question combined with it) for relatively little pay (except at my age 
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This year we had 4 candidates who were willing to go into the council and I was the number 4 of them. That's the story basically. And I made a good impression on the commission who selected the candidates and ordered them onto The List.
There's no reason to assume election before 2010 (usually they just form a new coalition if an old one breaks up before that, so you don't need the whole hassle of elections. Most intermediate elections are because several muncipalities are combined into 1), so my only hope currently is that we'll be able to join a coalition. In that case, our number 1 becomes a "minister" (don't know the english word for it, but it's the same function as a minister only on muncipal level) and I would take his place as council member. There are more parties who are serious candidates for a coalition, so I'm depending on the outcome of the negotiations.
).This year we had 4 candidates who were willing to go into the council and I was the number 4 of them. That's the story basically. And I made a good impression on the commission who selected the candidates and ordered them onto The List.
There's no reason to assume election before 2010 (usually they just form a new coalition if an old one breaks up before that, so you don't need the whole hassle of elections. Most intermediate elections are because several muncipalities are combined into 1), so my only hope currently is that we'll be able to join a coalition. In that case, our number 1 becomes a "minister" (don't know the english word for it, but it's the same function as a minister only on muncipal level) and I would take his place as council member. There are more parties who are serious candidates for a coalition, so I'm depending on the outcome of the negotiations.