Can somebody help me understand Germany’s election? We’re the conservatives in power last time? Are things now different now?
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They were for 16 years under Merkel. They weren't in the last 3 years. The social Democrats are In government since 1998 (with a 4 year break) and will 99% be in the next government. Be basically will get what we had under Merkel. Wind of Change. Not.
Thank you. I appreciate that breakdown.
Too bad. I was hoping Germany would break out of the funk it’s been in forever.
The difference is that the AFD is stronger (20 %, and sometimes over 50% in eastern Germany) and the liberal party who was in the last government isn't in the parliament anymore. Also the left made it to 8%, starting from 2% in November.
Yes, but the afd gained massively, giving them way more power on issues they agree on.
More than half
Im short:
The last government was buily out of the social democratic party and the greens (both left leaning WEF puppets if you ask me).
Things are not different now.
The conservatives will likely build a coalition with the social democrats. But the conservatives are not that conservative (under Angela Merkel they started the whole "welcoming culture")
That’s confirming what others are telling me.
Thank you!
whats "welcoming culture"?
open immigration?
so the green party has less of a voice now?
open immigration, yes. Basically every one who gets into Germany can stay and gets money from the social security system.
The green has less of a voice technically. But I have no hope that there will be essential changes on the climat scam topic.
interested. I didnt know that was a conservative initiative.
all the Germans i know in the States are social dems and convinced we are observing a new right wing uprising across Europe.
hard to tell from over here.
Seems like Friedrich "Fotzenfritz" Merz will be the next chancellor. The far right AfD is the second strongest party. We now have to see what kind of government coalition comes out of this.
So far Merz said he won't work together with AfD, but I don't him farther than I could throw him tbh. He's a multi millionaire, misogynist and BlackRock puppet, if we wanna go down the conspiracy route.
In US, the final election ends with 2 parties only: Republicans and Democrats.
In EU, there are commonly more than 2 parties in the final election.
If the election results does not show a unique winner (more of 51% of the parliament) then the parties needs to seek for coalition to achieve the 51% votes for controlling the parliament.
Thank you. That’s helpful.