Reply #28: misleading article [View All]

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The CDU/FDP lost this election. There was one big surprise: the (neoliberal) FDP, a party of losers with a solid base of some three percent, gained much more than was predicted (they stand at some 10 percent) - these votes came from traditional CDU voters who didn't like the idea of a grand coalition, I think.

Everyone else got pretty much what was expected.

Three possibilities:

SPD/CDU coalition (Most likely, but Merkel would have to be chancellor and right now on TV, Schroeder is making a lot of noise about staying in office).


CDU/FDP/Greens (The Greens haven't excluded this possibility yet - and I will not put anything beyond these opportunists. Second most likely outcome).

SPD/Greens/FDP (The FDP has expressly excluded this possibility - if they would pull this off it would be a major betrayal of their voters - but this party of neoliberal scum has survived pretty much everything they did in the last 20 years).


The irony is that we have a clear majority on the left: SPD / Greens / Linkspartei (new Left party). The Left party was founded only a few months ago and is led by the former SPD chairman Lafontaine. They have 25 percent of all votes in the East (since the former "post-communist" PDS has joined the Left party). However, the SPD leadership will rather cooperate with the right than move towards the left, apparently.