It sounds like a situation similar to ours in Canada. Governments don't get elected by a majority here either, because there are a multipicity of parties, and no one of them can secure a true majority of the voting but they CAN secure a majority of the seats.

And there is only ONE that gets the vote of the "conservative" sector of the population (which is in the minority here)....so THEY've been winning the elections, despite the fact that about 60% of the public doesn't WANT them!

That's not democracy. What it is, I'm not sure, but it's definitely not democracy.

If the center-left in this country were to combine into a single party, the right would have little or no hope of forming a government. Unfortunately, the center-left is divided into 3 different parties, so the right has been winning the elections by default, despite the fact that only about 40% of the public wants them to. The public can't do much about it, because the number one concern of any political party is to perpetuate its own existence (and secure power)....so the inertial forces against those 3 center-left parties swallowing their foolish pride and surrendering a bit of their old identity by joining forces is immense.

They'd have to think of the common good before themselves!!! :-D

As for the conservatives, their primary wish is to do everything the USA wants them to, including sending Canadian forces to fight in pointless wars that are not in the interest of the Canadian public. Why do they do this? Because they are being paid handsomely to do it, that's why.