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« on: March 18, 2011, 05:46:48 AM »
I'm pretty sure we've had this at some point....or maybe it was just "during your life" or something.....but this is for the Federal Republica starting in 1949.


1949: CDU (Konrad Adenauer)
1953: CDU (Konrad Adenauer)
1957: CDU (Konrad Adenauer)
1961: CDU (Konrad Adenauer)
1965: CDU (Ludwig Erhard)
1969: FDP (Walter Scheel) (in coalition with Willy Brandt)
1972: SPD (Willy Brandt)
1976: SPD (Helmut Schmitt)
1980: CSU (Franz-Josef Strauß) (although practically, could have only voted CDU outside Bavaria. Same result though.)
1983: CDU (Helmut Kohl)
1987: CDU (Helmut Kohl)
1990: CDU (Helmut Kohl)
1994: CDU (Helmut Kohl)
1998: SPD (Gerhard Schröder)
2002: CSU (Edmund Stoiber) (again, could have only voted CDU outside Bavaria).
2005: FDP (Guido Westerwelle) (in the hopes of a coalition with Angela Merkel. didn't happen, of course.)
2009: CDU (Angela Merkel)
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« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2011, 07:34:14 AM »
Rough guess : SPD until 1998, greens in 2002, Die Linke in 2005 and 2009.
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« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2011, 08:33:37 AM »
Quote from: Senator Antonio V on March 18, 2011, 07:34:14 AM
Rough guess : SPD until 1998, greens in 2002, Die Linke in 2005 and 2009.

This or straight SPD.
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« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2011, 02:52:22 PM »
« Edited: March 18, 2011, 02:54:36 PM by paddyguy »
Straight FDP, although the most anti-EU party that had a shot of getting in in every EU election.

Great to see that the lefties are such big fans of the renamed Socialist Unity Party of East Germany.  Honesty always is the best policy.
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« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2011, 05:17:42 PM »
Quote from: paddyguy on March 18, 2011, 02:52:22 PM
Straight FDP, although the most anti-EU party that had a shot of getting in in every EU election.

Great to see that the lefties are such big fans of the renamed Socialist Unity Party of East Germany.  Honesty always is the best policy.

Why is the American right so great on EU-hating? (honest question, you'd think Wormyguy'd drool himself over its Free Market credentials)
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« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2011, 08:31:18 PM »
Quote from: Tyrone Slothrop on March 18, 2011, 05:17:42 PM
Quote from: paddyguy on March 18, 2011, 02:52:22 PM
Straight FDP, although the most anti-EU party that had a shot of getting in in every EU election.

Great to see that the lefties are such big fans of the renamed Socialist Unity Party of East Germany.  Honesty always is the best policy.

Why is the American right so great on EU-hating? (honest question, you'd think Wormyguy'd drool himself over its Free Market credentials)

Well, if the EU were just a free trade/open borders thing, I'd be strongly in favor of it, but the stuff like the bailouts and the common agricultural policy, not to mention the centralized monetary policy/currency, forces me to oppose it.  And then there's the fact that it rather flies in the face of my pro-decentralization beliefs...
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« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2011, 12:28:43 PM »
SDP until 1998. Greens in 2002 and 2005. Die Linke in 2009.
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« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2011, 04:43:51 PM »
SPD until 1983, Greens until 2005, Pirates in 2009. I would never vote for the ex-Stasi party.
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« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2011, 06:00:26 PM »
Quote from: Lief on March 20, 2011, 04:43:51 PM
I would never vote for the ex-Stasi party.

That's comforting to hear.
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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2011, 02:17:59 PM »
Quote from: Lief on March 20, 2011, 04:43:51 PM
I would never vote for the ex-Stasi party.

The democrats are also the ex-racist party, you know ? Wink
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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2011, 05:51:36 PM »
« Edited: March 21, 2011, 05:53:41 PM by Gweithiwr »
Obviously the link between the old regime in the East and contemporary politics is clearest in the case of Die Linke, but let's not pretend that they're the only party (in the former DDR) with such roots.

And, no. I wouldn't vote for them.
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