German federal election (September 18, 2005)

[minionofmidas]

German politics is reminding me more and more of a country not a million mouseclicks away from this board.

Atlasia, by chance?

Yep, that's the one I meant.

Update:
Stoiber stays in Bavaria. He'd already prevented an attempt to pick his successor before the Grand Coalition is well and truly settled on, now he used Müntefering's move as a pretext to say he's staying in Bavaria - where Günter Beckstein and Erwin Huber, declared candidates to succeed him, are obviously less than happy. Stay tuned. Michael Glos (see above, CDU/CSU cabinet list) to be Minister for Commerce.

Müntefering, meanwhile, is still ready to be Vice Chancellor and Minister for Employment.

Matthias Platzeck to be Party Chairman, stay in Brandenburg. (Hey - he's a former Green Party member. We're taking over! and like Merkel he's an East German. They're taking us over! ). Whether Nahles actually gets the post she's been nominated for is up in the air right now.

[WMS]

German politics is reminding me more and more of a country not a million mouseclicks away from this board.

Atlasia, by chance?

Yep, that's the one I meant.

Now that's a bit spooky...

And East Germany is still officially insane.

[CO-OWL]

SPD and CDU/CSU negotiaters have finally agreed on a coalition contract. Party conferences have to approve it on Monday; Angela Merkel shall be  elected chancellor by the Bundestag on Nov. 22nd.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,384457,00.html
 

[Bono]

The grand coalition will be a failure. No doubt on it.

^^^^

[minionofmidas]

The grand coalition will be a failure. No doubt on it.

^^^^

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I'm told they're going to put sales taxes up... is this serious or some sort of sick joke?

[minionofmidas]

I'm told they're going to put sales taxes up... is this serious or some sort of sick joke?

Both.

[minionofmidas]

You can sign against that here, btw.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Separate party conventions of SPD, CDU, and CSU have approved the Grand coalition today:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4434812.stm

[Middle-aged Europe]

Here is a new Emnid poll, released yesterday:

CDU/CSU 33%
SPD 31%
FDP 12%
Left.PDS 11%
Greens 9%
Other parties 4%

I predict that towards the end of the Grand coalition's term all three smaller parties will poll between 15% and 20%, hahaha.

[minionofmidas]

CDU/CSU 33%
SPD 31%
FDP 12%
Left.PDS 11%
Greens 9%
Other parties 4%

Infratest-Dimap has
SPD 33% (up one)
CDU/CSU 32% (down two from last, two weeks older)
FDP 12%
Left 9%
Greens 9% (all no change)
others 5% (up one)

[Bono]

I'm told they're going to put sales taxes up... is this serious or some sort of sick joke?

Both.

Funny thing is that it's the CDu that's gonna get blamed, even though the SDP controls all important minitries.

[freek]

I predict that towards the end of the Grand coalition's term all three smaller parties will poll between 15% and 20%, hahaha.

Which will make a "Small coalition" of Grüne/Linke/FDP possible. .

[Middle-aged Europe]

And Angela Merkel is Chancellor of Germany now:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1786512,00.html

[minionofmidas]

Bus services have not broken down as a result yet.

[freek]

Bus services have not broken down as a result yet.

God punishes with a delay?

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[minionofmidas]

Bump.

You know I had to do that.