• Angela Merkel wins third term as German chancellor, but grand coalition may be needed
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/d9h2.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24197994[/url] [quote]Angela Merkel has urged her party to celebrate "a super result" after exit polls suggested she was set to win a third term as German chancellor. Her conservatives took about 42% of the vote, according to exit polls. But Mrs Merkel's preferred coalition is at risk, as her Free Democrat partners appear not have secured the 5% needed to enter parliament. She may, therefore, be forced to seek a grand coalition with the Social Democrats - estimated to have won 26%.[/quote]
Please no coalition
[QUOTE=DrDevil;42274755]Please no coalition[/QUOTE] Why not?
That was the last time I voted SPD if they really do a big coalition.
What's this coalition? Note the flag to the left.
[QUOTE=Aide;42274837]What's this coalition? Note the flag to the left.[/QUOTE] Basically Union (CDU, Merkel's party) and SPD (Steinbrück aka the middle finger guy) would form a coalition to rule together. This happened in the past but it was always terrible.
as someone who is planning on moving to Germany within the next 5 or so years, I'm interested in learning why this is a big deal
[QUOTE=Aide;42274837]What's this coalition? Note the flag to the left.[/QUOTE] A coalition is when two or more parties pool their votes and go into power together. Basically means the people you didn't want get into power anyway and no one is happy.
Fucking Merkel why do People keep Voting the same shit over and over again.
I should mention that so far every single German (as in Federal Republic) government has been a coalition so far. The votes aren't fully counted yet but the CDU is looking so strong, they might be able to form a government alone this time around. Or miss the required number of seats by a hair.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;42275053]A coalition is when two or more parties pool their votes and go into power together. Basically means the people you didn't want get into power anyway and no one is happy.[/QUOTE] Something to note is that it's not part of the democratic process (at least here) but just means they agree to help out each other with certain proposals. Unlike in the US voting here is (since this time almost 100% strictly) proportional, so the electorates don't really matter that much for the overall result. [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation"]Read this[/URL] for more information.
Why is she always doing that with her hands
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;42275216]Why is she always doing that with her hands[/QUOTE] It's called the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkel-Raute"]Merkel-Raute[/URL] :v: [URL="https://www.google.de/search?q=merkel-raute&client=firefox-a&hs=3dW&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Y0s_Uo7pEcKbtQb49IHgCA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=1017&dpr=1"]She does it very, very often.[/URL]
[img]http://unbelievablepictures.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/merkel-fingerkaro.jpg[/img]
At least the FDP is gone, they are probably the ones closest to US politics here. [editline]edit[/editline] Of the larger parties and in terms of lobbyism I mean. If they did any of the crazy things that show up here in SH all the time they would have disappeared from parliament very quickly.
[QUOTE=Niklas;42275252][img]http://unbelievablepictures.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/merkel-fingerkaro.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] That's some illerminati shit right there. Wake up sheeple.
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;42275216]Why is she always doing that with her hands[/QUOTE] It's the Illuminati sign. Isn't it obvious sheeple?
I'd be suprised if the AfD actually gets seats, they are at about 4,9%
[QUOTE=Niklas;42275389]I'd be suprised if the AfD actually gets seats[/QUOTE] Hopefully they don't.
[QUOTE=Niklas;42275252][img]http://unbelievablepictures.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/merkel-fingerkaro.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] looks kinda gangsta
That's why the Majority vote is the way to go...
[QUOTE=Stopper;42275452]That's why the Majority vote is the way to go...[/QUOTE] I would be pretty uncomfortable with the Christian, conservative party running the country by itself.
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;42275216]Why is she always doing that with her hands[/QUOTE] She's just too awkward so she constantly thinks about where to put her hands. Poor Mutti.
[QUOTE=Tamschi;42275512]I would be pretty uncomfortable with the Christian, conservative party running the country by itself.[/QUOTE] But you're also uncomfortable with the coalition?
I wish I could still vote for the Anarchist Pogo Party... oh well, the Pirate's Party will have to do for now
[QUOTE=KILLTHIS;42275406]Hopefully they don't.[/QUOTE] Still baffled such a kneejerk reaction party got this far in such a short amount of time. Don't they remember how untouchable the dollar seemed before the euro? What kind of a currency credibility message a Germany without euro would send throughout Europe in general and how it would affect the level of trust and reliability between EU states especially? What it could mean for the Eurasian Union and Putin's shit-eating grin? That kinda long-term consequences beyond "urgh Greece fucked up big time"? Buncha short-sighted ragequitters the way I see it. EU is more than the sum of the parts, that's why there's benefits even for those that need to carry it and not something nations joined out of bare necessity.
[QUOTE=Stopper;42275834]But you're also uncomfortable with the coalition?[/QUOTE] A bit, but not as much as with the CDU. A coalition usually means that not a lot of things get done, but the CDU/CSU running everything would mean they'd get a lot of things done I don't agree with. I don't really mind Merkel being chancellor though, she does her job pretty well except for the nuclear power thing where she basically stopped the plants without proper legal backing, resulting in a lawsuit afaik, and the NSA scandal. She is effectively the one responsible for the secret service, but all she did was declare it as non-issue. [editline]22nd September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=H4ngman;42275880]I wish I could still vote for the Anarchist Pogo Party... oh well, the Pirate's Party will have to do for now[/QUOTE] I'd vote for them if they'd finally get over their constant internal quarrelling (and there was a chance they'd make the 5% cut). Right now it's more of a choice of which party I disagree with the least.
what's with Germany and it's constant coalitions all the time and i s2g angela merkel has had that haircut for years now wtf
[QUOTE=Tamschi;42275952]I'd vote for them if they'd finally get over their constant internal quarrelling (and there was a chance they'd make the 5% cut). Right now it's more of a choice of which party I disagree with the least.[/QUOTE] I heard they died a slow, agonizing death by paperwork partly because they're full of amateurs, partly because of stuff like "non-free programs for tax calculations etc. go against our party's mentality, so we're going to code our own software and certainly not suffer from half a year of backlog that prevents us from receiving state funding with which we could bolster our campaign!" That latter reason sounds really silly to me. I'd have preferred them to bite into the sour apple to stay operational, considering which option would have granted them the bigger effect in the long run. I also expected them to do a lot more with the whole NSA shitstorm, seemed like a freebie to me and definitely what they needed against a newcomer like the AFD. The crumbling FDP left lots of confused liberals just lying around, waiting to be picked up by someone. Pretty disappointing if all I heard is true.
Die PARTEI made this years election much more entertaining
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