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2017-11-20 Europe
German election: Preliminary coalition talks collapse after FDP walks out
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Posted by trailing wife 2017-11-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who has the power to call new elections

The German President does not have the power to dissolve parliament unilaterally.

An hour earlier, FDP head Christian Lindner announced that his party had walked out of the negotiations after "reached compromises were questioned again."

"It is better not to rule than to rule wrongly," he said.

This is a malicious mistranslation. Lindner's words ("Es ist besser, nicht zu regieren, als falsch zu regieren.") are correctly translated as "It is better not to govern than to govern the wrong way."

The German word for "to govern" is "regieren"; the word for "to rule" is "herrschen."

Politicians in a Western Democracy can govern but they can never rule.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2017-11-20 01:38||   2017-11-20 01:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Her conservatives

You keep using that word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
Posted by AlanC 2017-11-20 09:17||   2017-11-20 09:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Merkel has left Berlin's Schloss Bellevue after informing President Steinmeier that she's unable to form a government.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-11-20 09:32||   2017-11-20 09:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Things seem to work just fine without government interference. A few months without stupid new laws won't hurt.
Posted by European Conservative 2017-11-20 09:37||   2017-11-20 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 This is a malicious mistranslation.

Given that Deutsche Welle is an instrument if government outreach to the English-speaking pro-Germans of the world... Thank you for the perspective, Elmerert Hupens2660.
Posted by trailing wife 2017-11-20 12:42||   2017-11-20 12:42|| Front Page Top

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