Editing Parliamentary system (section)

=== Democratic unaccountability ===
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All current parliamentary democracies see the indirect election or appointment of their head of government. As a result, the electorate has limited power to remove or install the person or party wielding the most power. Although [[strategic voting]] may enable the party of the prime minister to be removed or empowered, this can be at the expense of voters first preferences in the many parliamentary systems utilising [[First-past-the-post voting|first past the post]], or having no effect in dislodging those parties who consistently form part of a coalition government, as with then [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands|Dutch prime minister]] [[Mark Rutte]] and his party the [[People's Party for Freedom and Democracy|VVD]]'s 4 terms in office, despite their peak support reaching only [[2012 Dutch general election|26.6% in 2012]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Henley |first=Jon |date=14 December 2021 |title='Teflon' Mark Rutte set for fourth Dutch term after record-breaking talks |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/14/teflon-mark-rutte-fourth-dutch-term-record-breaking-talks-government-coalition |url-access=registration |access-date=27 October 2022}}</ref>