The May 24 ballot resulted in a six-party Parliament and now the six parliamentary parties are being asked to find ways to work together to elect a speaker of the Parliament. In theory all parties wish to win this battle by electing their own candidate. However, there are objective difficulties concerning the sizes and possibilities of each for alliances. Majors have a bargaining advantage because of the number of votes. However, no one can elect the president of the Parliament without the support of the others and this fact gives negotiation possibilities to even the smallest political forces. So because the outcome of one parliamentary party’s choices depends on the choices of the other five, a framework of strategic interaction is created that brings parties to the heart of game theory. Each player tries to predict the other’s moves in this competitive environment in order to formulate a winning strategy and the process resembles hard poker. Autop…
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