German federal election (September 18, 2005)

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It will be interesting to see whether the PDS will regain "proportionalizing" seats. It might even make any two-party coalition besides a grand one impossible.

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This is at least as much bad news for Merkel as it is for Schroeder. With the Leftist combo party surpassing the 5% treshold, what are the chances that CDU/CSU+FDP won't get an absolute majority?

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Hmmm, if the 3 smaller parties manage to regularly reach the requirements for proportional seats and a subsequent necessary grand coalition becomes a regular necessity, this could start a new discussion about the whole election system.

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How could Merkel have the power to hold another election if she doesn't have a majority in the first place?

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Rumors are now saying that the SPD has the same amount of seats as the CDU/CSU, which in that case will no doubt have been the result of their tendency to profit from overhang seats.

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The "official" colour of the CDU is actually orange.

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The Wikipedia article needs to be modified to accurately reflect that then.
Blue is actually the colour of the CSU and although it could be used to symbolize the CDU/CSU as a whole, I'm speculating that black is still chosen to prevent confusion as people tend to rather drop the CSU than the CDU when they talk about the German Conservatives.