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totodeinhere

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14. What about a coalition with the AfD if they get in? I am not an expert on German

Reply to DFW (Reply #9)

Sun Sep 22, 2013, 02:35 PM

Sep 2013

politics by any means but I do know that in general under a parliamentary system coalition partners don't have to agree on everything and in fact they usually don't. The AfD would be a very junior partner in a possible coalition and obviously the CDU would control the finance ministry or whatever they call it in Germany. So the two parties could simply agree to disagree about the euro.

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Germany has voted. [View all] OldEurope Sep 2013 OP

Allegedly latest ZDF projection has absolute majority for her party. n/t Benton D Struckcheon Sep 2013 #1

Where did you see that? The latest info I can find shows her at 42% totodeinhere Sep 2013 #2

'Twas a tweet Benton D Struckcheon Sep 2013 #3

All parties below 5% don't get seats. +graphic DetlefK Sep 2013 #4

Sorry I can't read the German at that site but is there a breakdown of the projected number totodeinhere Sep 2013 #5

Seats OldEurope Sep 2013 #6

Thank you. That's all very interesting. n/t totodeinhere Sep 2013 #10

From 17 minutes ago: DetlefK Sep 2013 #7

One thing in your post is perhaps misleading. OldEurope Sep 2013 #8

No. The FDP are liberals. JackRiddler Sep 2013 #35

ZDF's now saying one seat short of absolute majority, Benton D Struckcheon Sep 2013 #11

With numbers changing every few minutes, I come back tommorrow. ;-) DetlefK Sep 2013 #12

Good plan. n/t Benton D Struckcheon Sep 2013 #13

Yes but there are hundreds of seats in Bundestag that are allocated on the basis of party votes Yo_Mama Sep 2013 #20

If the AfD gets in, the deck gets heavily reshuffled DFW Sep 2013 #9

What about a coalition with the AfD if they get in? I am not an expert on German totodeinhere Sep 2013 #14

No, no AfD is... OldEurope Sep 2013 #15

They said they'd ruled that out already muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #16

Little to no chance of that DFW Sep 2013 #19

The FDP may be wiped out. Their austerity war is over. Dawson Leery Sep 2013 #17

I don't think it was the FDP OldEurope Sep 2013 #18

Mixed feelings but it was currently the best possible outcome I think Celefin Sep 2013 #21

Christ, I wish the SPD would get past its "no coalition with Die Linke" stubbornness Ken Burch Sep 2013 #23

'Die Linke' filled the space the SPD vacated under chancellor Schroeder Celefin Sep 2013 #32

The FDP has been wiped out in the state governments too. Dawson Leery Sep 2013 #25

Yep - in day-to-day German politics that is really important Celefin Sep 2013 #31

5.0 in Hesse /nt jakeXT Sep 2013 #34

The Frankfurter Allgemeine shows that the Union -- CDU and CSU together got about 42% JDPriestly Sep 2013 #22

that's a pretty reliable newspaper gopiscrap Sep 2013 #24

as I told someone earlier DonCoquixote Sep 2013 #26

More like, Doing all she can to prove someone from former Communist East Germany,.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #27

same thing DonCoquixote Sep 2013 #28

It's a socio-economic success because corporations didn't write their laws. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #29

is a minority gov't possible? ...nt quadrature Sep 2013 #30

Not very likely n/t MissHoneychurch Sep 2013 #33