Questions About Other Countries' Politics that You Were Too Afraid To Ask

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Italy really confuses me in general, but one thing really confused me from the recent election - what do people mean by saying M5S is a parody of an old-school labor party?

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Not a specific question, but how much name rec do politicians have in other countries? E.g. in the UK, what politicians would >50% of the public be able to recognize? Hard to get a sense of this sort of thing just from the internet.

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Not a specific question, but how much name rec do politicians have in other countries? E.g. in the UK, what politicians would >50% of the public be able to recognize? Hard to get a sense of this sort of thing just from the internet.

US is really only country president always well known.  UK and France usually is, Germany depends.  Merkel well known globally Scholz much less.  In other countries it is more limited to if you have a controversial, charismatic or eccentric leader. 

Orban, Mugabe, Kim Jong un household names as controversial.

Charismatic would Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Ardern as both were household names but few could name any other Canadian or Kiwi PM in past 40 years.

Thanks! Not really the question I was asking though. In the case of e.g. Canada, it's more like how many cabinet members, provincial premiers, MPs, MLAs, etc can the average person name?

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Why does Australia seem to have so many fewer Asians and nonwhites generally in politics compared to Canada, the UK, and US? The current cabinet is strikingly white, especially for a liberal/left party.

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Embarrassingly basic question, but what's the point of Reform/Farage in a post-Brexit world?