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<blockquote data-quote="mindlight" data-source="post: 71798537" data-attributes="member: 21246"><p>Like the cartoon, but Merkel is staying on cause the CDU remains the largest party and can therefore choose the government. With likely FDP support she just needs to persuade the Greens to form a government. But there are strong differences between these parties on coal fired power stations for instance. Most Germans want her to remain as Chancellor. #BTW17</p><p></p><p><a href="http://wahl.tagesschau.de/wahlen/2017-09-24-BT-DE/index.shtml" target="_blank">Bundestagswahl 2017</a></p><p></p><p>While 87% of Germans did not vote for the AFD it seems there is a protest vote here as in much of the rest of Europe against an establishment that takes voters for granted. We saw it in Brexit, En Marche and with Trump in the USA also. The boring way that technocratic politicians have functioned and the politically correct way they speak is at odds with issues that prompt deep passions over immigration and terrorism for example. My hope is that the FDP can bleed off a lot of the AFD votes over the next 4 years while the CDU get the Greens and SPD votes. Then we can return to the traditional CDU-FDP alliance that characterised the Federal Republics most successful years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mindlight, post: 71798537, member: 21246"] Like the cartoon, but Merkel is staying on cause the CDU remains the largest party and can therefore choose the government. With likely FDP support she just needs to persuade the Greens to form a government. But there are strong differences between these parties on coal fired power stations for instance. Most Germans want her to remain as Chancellor. #BTW17 [URL="http://wahl.tagesschau.de/wahlen/2017-09-24-BT-DE/index.shtml"]Bundestagswahl 2017[/URL] While 87% of Germans did not vote for the AFD it seems there is a protest vote here as in much of the rest of Europe against an establishment that takes voters for granted. We saw it in Brexit, En Marche and with Trump in the USA also. The boring way that technocratic politicians have functioned and the politically correct way they speak is at odds with issues that prompt deep passions over immigration and terrorism for example. My hope is that the FDP can bleed off a lot of the AFD votes over the next 4 years while the CDU get the Greens and SPD votes. Then we can return to the traditional CDU-FDP alliance that characterised the Federal Republics most successful years. [/QUOTE]
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