Talk:List of political parties in Gibraltar

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What is wrong with this sentence: Gibraltar has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. Gangulf 12:21, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

What's wrong with it is that it's simply false. For a start, you only have to look at the article to see that three parties are represented in the House of Assembly. Gibraltar has its fair share of electoral alliances and coalitions, and what's more, parties have come and gone and displaced each other over time, even in the last few years, so there hasn't been extreme difficulty for other parties to achieve success at all. Two parties no longer represented in the House of Assembly have provided Gibraltar's Chief Minister during the last 35 years. It looked to me very much like a piece of boilerplate text that is probably reproduced all over Wikipedia in these kind of articles for countries that appear at the briefest of glances to be dominated by two parties. — Trilobite (Talk) 17:31, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)