About France.
—Resistance to coalition governments. Apart from Borden's Union Government that collected dissident Liberals, no coalition government has formed on the federal level. Provincially, the only coalitions since Confederation were Liberal-Conservative ones in PEI, Ontario and BC*, and a Conservative-Progressive one in Saskatchewan.
Well, in France everything is made particular by the fact that presidential elections determine most political balances. Technincally, France has had minority governments (the socialist governments from 1988-93 for example), but the logic is pretty much bipolarized. On the right, you have the UMP and its centrist whore which always govern together, and on the other side the PS and its few allies (radicals, communists and greenies) are basically a permanent coalition since 1997 and the "plural left", even though there's nothing official and each party runs its own candidate for presidency.
For a long time, PS First Secretaries were elected by the party's institutions, which themselves were elected by the party members through "motions" (which are basically a list for the party's Congress). In 2008, as no majority was found, the election was sent back to the members who elected their secretary using the same system as for the prez election.
Nobody cares about "les question au gouvernement" unless something shocking happens during them which the media report. Has anybody ever cared ? I doubt it.
That would be absolutely unthinkable in France.
There are a few ministers "issus de la diversité", as we (stupidly) say. They are usually figureheads who get fired as soon as they try to do their job seriously.
