German Elections & Politics

[Tender Branson]

New Bavaria poll suggests the CSU's hardline position against Merkel's naive migrant policy is paying off - with the CSU managing to hold the AfD below 10%, while remaining stable itself:



Compared with the 2013 state election:

CSU: n.c.
SPD: -5%
Greens: +2%
AfD: +9%
FW: -4%
FDP: +2%
Others: -4%

Center-Right: 67%
Center-Left: 27%

[President Johnson]

I think it would be pretty interesting if the CDU would be competing in Bavaria.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A little later than ideal for various reasons. You can look forward to the party vote maps later in the week.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

[DavidB.]

New poll, and a new all-time high for AfD, it seems.

[Beezer]

AfD 2nd strongest party in East Germany:

[Helsinkian]

AfD has now officially been expelled from the ECR group in the EP.

[Beezer]

CDU not looking too good in the latest ZDF poll:

[Tender Branson]

Update after the March state elections:

* Rheinland-Pfalz gets a SPD-Green-FDP coalition ("traffic light")
* Sachsen-Anhalt gets a CDU-SPD-Green coalition ("Kenya")
* In Baden-Württemberg, Greens-CDU are in intense talks ("Kiwi")

[Famous Mortimer]

Wow, surprised the traffic light coalition actually went through.

[RodPresident]

Wow, surprised the traffic light coalition actually went through.

Actually, Kurt Beck opted for FDP than Greens as coalition partner. Then RP FDP knows how to work with SDP.

[RedPrometheus]

Wow, surprised the traffic light coalition actually went through.

Actually, Kurt Beck opted for FDP than Greens as coalition partner. Then RP FDP knows how to work with SDP.

Yes. There was an SPD-FDP coalition in RLP from 1991 to 2006 and Kurt Beck kept good relations with them afterwards. Apparently Dreyer was able to build on that, but she seems to be a natural bridge builder in my opinion.

[RedPrometheus]

Nobody posted it here yet: the SPD-centrist mayor of Berlin Michael Müller made a successful coup against leftwing SPD chairman Jan Stöß and got rid of some allies of his:

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berliner-spd-michael-mueller-schlaegt-andreas-geisel-als-vize-vor/13466742.html

This also hurts the SPD-left overall as Stöß was one of the more powerful and outspoken members.

[SNJ1985]

Merkel replaces the chief of the BND, to the surprise of many:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/world/europe/angela-merkel-germany-bnd-gerhard-schindler.html?_r=0

[reciprocity]

Nobody posted it here yet: the SPD-centrist mayor of Berlin Michael Müller made a successful coup against leftwing SPD chairman Jan Stöß and got rid of some allies of his:

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berliner-spd-michael-mueller-schlaegt-andreas-geisel-als-vize-vor/13466742.html

This also hurts the SPD-left overall as Stöß was one of the more powerful and outspoken members.

How would this be from an electoral point of view? Would it have much effect?

[Yeahsayyeah]

Seems more like a fight of personal circles than something that is really rooted in "political ideological wings". SPD in Berlin is the "bloodless party of governance without any ideas or even principles", anyway. Müller seems like a middle-of-the-road SPD technocrat to me, Stöss more like a "socially liberal" (American meaning) with a Wowereitish persona.

SPD will leave the coalition with the CDU after the election, anyway. Both parties and even the cabinet members despise each other in public. The only raison d'etre of this coalition was the enforcement of the building of the disputed Autobahn A 100 extension, which is now underway  and they twiddled their thumbs, since, which is an absolute disaster.

[Tender Branson]

If they underpoll like in Sachsen-Anhalt, the AfD could win the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election in early September, according to a new poll by Infratest dimap:

24% CDU
22% SPD
18% AfD
16% Left
  8% Greens
  4% FDP
  4% NPD
  4% Others

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/umfrage878.pdf

[Helsinkian]

Justice Minister Heiko Maas's May Day speech didn't exactly go according to plans: YouTube: "Get out, Traitor!" - German People chases Minister of Justice Heiko Maas to his Armored Mercedes

[Derpist]

Justice Minister Heiko Maas's May Day speech didn't exactly go according to plans: YouTube: "Get out, Traitor!" - German People chases Minister of Justice Heiko Maas to his Armored Mercedes

That's beautiful.

[MaxQue]

Justice Minister Heiko Maas's May Day speech didn't exactly go according to plans: YouTube: "Get out, Traitor!" - German People chases Minister of Justice Heiko Maas to his Armored Mercedes

Neo-nazis thugs, you mean.

[Beezer]

CDU with its worst "Deutschlandtrend" showing since Oct 2011, SPD with its worst result ever.

[SNJ1985]

That poll also shows a record high for AfD.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Why are Greens having a minor bounce lately?

[Hnv1]

Why are Greens having a minor bounce lately?

I guess leftist who don't like SPD message about immigration

[reciprocity]

So Margot Honecker died. I had no idea who she was but she seems interesting to say the least. It must have been strange living in East Germany, going from one dictatorship to another.