they should, but they lie with all their teeth and get away with almost everything, for fucks sake we have a prime minister in prison right now accused of fraud and money laundering and that sort of thing (not prooved yet though).
But yeah they have a campaign program, most people don't read it, also when they fail on their promises most people don't even realize it, because again they didn't even know about those promises in the first place, as for what the tv talks about it is only 5% of the measures candidates intend to take, they don't cover everything, and even those measures that people know about because they heard about them on TV, even those sometimes they fail fulfill... politics over here are rotten.
In Portugal both absolute majority single party governments implemented a very high percentage of their program, and some of minority ones also did a reasonable work in implementing their program (if the end result of the program was good or bad that's a whole different can of worms), were they usually fail miserably is on the soundbites that are shown on TV. But the same is true also in the US, Obama delivered 80% of his promises which is impressive taking into account that he had to work against the congress.
I appreciate the non-American perspective, thanks for sharing! In Portugal, are candidates held to the claims in their programs?
they should, but they lie with all their teeth and get away with almost everything, for fucks sake we have a prime minister in prison right now accused of fraud and money laundering and that sort of thing (not prooved yet though).
But yeah they have a campaign program, most people don't read it, also when they fail on their promises most people don't even realize it, because again they didn't even know about those promises in the first place, as for what the tv talks about it is only 5% of the measures candidates intend to take, they don't cover everything, and even those measures that people know about because they heard about them on TV, even those sometimes they fail fulfill... politics over here are rotten.
In Portugal both absolute majority single party governments implemented a very high percentage of their program, and some of minority ones also did a reasonable work in implementing their program (if the end result of the program was good or bad that's a whole different can of worms), were they usually fail miserably is on the soundbites that are shown on TV. But the same is true also in the US, Obama delivered 80% of his promises which is impressive taking into account that he had to work against the congress.
That doesn't sound much different from American politics as far as media involvement and failed promises go.
guess that's a world wide phenomena when it comes to rotten politics.
'Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely" John Dalberg-Acton This is not a new phenomenon.