Every other parliamentary country recognises this as a common configuration where the bigger one makes concessions to the smaller one. In Aus they even name the leader of the smaller one as Vice PM by default
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Well, perhaps not all of them. The UK for example insists on a winner-takes-all system where one party has an absolute mandate; minority or “hung” parliaments are rare and widely condemned as weak and unstable, rather than as useful mechanisms to ensure non-partisan cooperation.
This is plainly not true. The coalition in Australia has a deal where that happens, but it's not like Labor names the Greens leader as deputy, or even the Liberal leader
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