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| Merkel wins German Elections |
| 2013-09-22 |
| The CDU/CSU might actually win an absolute majority of seats. |
| Posted by:European Conservative |
| #6 Absolute majority won't happen... |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2013-09-22 17:38 |
| #5 Well currently she needs one or two seats more for an absolute majority |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2013-09-22 16:09 |
| #4 Merkel's victory might turn out to be pyrrhic victory. The majority to voter's did vote for non-leftist, liberal (European sense) / conservative parties. In parliament however there's a thin majority of Social Democrats, Communist Part of East Germany and Greens, according to current prognoses. A lower percentage of voters voted for leftist parties compared to the previous election but leftist representation in parliament actually increased. This is because 2 lib/conservative parties commanding 8%-10% of the vote together are not represented at all. Merkel will move have to move to the left. In fact precisely because they're relatively weak the Social Democrats will have to extract huge concessions from Merkel. They're too weak to be generous. I wouldn't be too surprised if Merkel was actually unable to form a coalition after this election. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2013-09-22 15:53 |
| #3 :-D, Fred. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-09-22 15:05 |
| #2 But... but... but they said the race tightened up at the last? That she was in danger... Oh. Wait. That was from a newspaper. Never mind. |
| Posted by: Fred 2013-09-22 14:56 |
| #1 Oh, well done! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-09-22 14:56 |