Liechtenstein Landtag election - 7th February 2021

[Estrella]

What would make someone vote for VU instead of FBP or vice-versa? The place is too much of a village to have any relevant political divides (civil war like in Ireland? hahaha) and it's not personalities either, the parties' support has always been too stable for that, so I assume it's for "your great-great-grandfather stole my great-great-grandmother's horse" reasons?

[Estrella]

TL;DR Liechtenstein is right-wing af? Good.

I also now feel an urge to start a San Marino politics thread, but alas, I've just found out I missed the administrative elections there for twenty days. I'll try to cover its 'glorified municipal politics' next time they have a general election or a referendum though.

San Marino is a left wing equivalent of Liechtenstein, pretty much?

Pretty much. At one point they were even ruled by a coalition of Communists and Socialists that was overthrown in (response to) a coup-like event that went down like a scene from The Mouse that Roared:

On 30 September, opposition councilors occupied an abandoned factory in the town of Rovereta, Serravalle on the Italian border. At the stroke of midnight when the regency should have expired, the councilors declared a provisional government. Italy recognized the provisional government and Italian Carabinieri protected the three sides of the factory that sat in their territory. The regency organized a militia of supporters and weapons flowed in from Italy to both sides. On 11 October, the regency caved in and recognized the provisional government, ending the crisis.

[Estrella]

I mean, Liechtenstein has no Soc Dem party because it has no Soc Dem tradition, and that particular social class was sucked into the VU in the era when one might have been relevant.

hot take: VU is closest Europe has to an analogue of US Democrats