There has been a lot of talk in my country about the legitimacy of government lead by a group of small parties (probably each around (10 - 30% of the seats) with many saying that the largest of these parties wouldn't have a mandate to govern if they only got around 25% of the vote. The election will likely be decided by a populist centrist-ish party, who have the choice between supporting the two major left wing parties or a single right wing party. While the two left wing parties combined are polling almost the same as the right wing party, there is this perception that they would constitute a "coalition of losers" rather than a legitimate government.

I think there is nothing wrong with the idea of this coalition. There would be no more conflicting ideologies within a left wing coalition than in the equivalent right wing coalition and combined they would represent a majority of the country's voters. Why shouldn't the country be lead by a "coalition of losers" if that coalition represents a majority of the country and doesn't have wholly incompatible views?

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