NationStates Jolt Archive

Can you with a few hundred quid (dollars etc) in your pocket stand for election to government in your home country?
If not why not?
Can it be a democracy if you can't?
In the UK I can stand for election, and if I'm not wrong so could you!

In Spain you can't go for free, but is quite easy to found a Party. The law requests a list of names of affiliates to your party covering all the seats in the Chamber. You need 75 people to opt to Madrid, and about 350-400 for the Government.

This is not democracy, this is partycracy. But since I can found my own option, I like it.

In Spain you can't go for free, but is quite easy to found a Party. The law requests a list of names of affiliates to your party covering all the seats in the Chamber. You need 75 people to opt to Madrid, and about 350-400 for the Government.

This is not democracy, this is partycracy. But since I can found my own option, I like it.
So you could with a group of friends support stand for election. Shame about having to form a party but it's good all the same.
Could I, a UK citizen do the same over there?

Yes. In the past elections, a group of Chinese citizens found the "Round Party", whose programme was to work for the right of all the inmigrants, but focusing on the orientals.

If a Chinese can, an EU citizen couldn't? ;)