3 state elections in Germany in September

[CO-OWL]

A recent poll contained the question:
"Which party does understand the desires and problems of the people?"

Among East Germans the result was:

PDS 30%
CDU 13%
SPD   8%
Greens 8%
FDP   4%
no party 34%

This feeling is one reason for the enduring success of the PDS in East Germany.


BTW, a new Brandenburg poll has it:

PDS 36%
SPD 27%
CDU 22%
Greens 4%
FDP 3%
DVU 4%
other 4%

[CO-OWL]

Partial results are actually already in for 3/4 of the state (I wonder how come? Don't they count ballots by hand on the Saar anymore?) and look slightly different in relevant details:
CDU 48,9
SPD 30,8
FDP 5.0
Greens 4.9
NPD 3.7
Plus they include the others...
Familienpartei (small, kinda centrist protest party - never won anything) 3.2
PDS 2.1

I think, Saarbrücken is still missing. It should improve the Green and FDP numbers. On the other hand the CDU will go down a bit.

Oops, Lewis was faster

[CO-OWL]

With the NPD at 4% in Saarland I'm afraid it's very likely that they will get >5% in Saxony and the DVU will (again)
get >5% in Brandenburg.
Let's hope the PDS gets most of the protest votes.


At least in Saxony the SPD cannot lose 13%...

[CO-OWL]

Preliminary election results:

Saxony
CDU 41.1% / 55 seats
PDS 23.6% / 31 seats
SPD 9.8% / 13 seats
NPD 9.2% / 12 seats
FDP 5.9% / 7 seats
Greens 5.1% / 6 seats

At the moment, it is expected that the SPD will join a coalition with the CDU, because CDU + FDP would need exactly one additional seat to have a majority.

Interesting:
The CDU won 55 out of 60 districts. If they had only won 54  districts, CDU + FDP would have reached a majority! (54 + 7 = 61 out of 121 seats)
In this case the CDU would lose 1 extra ("Uberhang-") seat, and the PDS as well as the SPD 1 compensation ("Ausgleichs-")seat, thus reducing the total number of seats from 124 to 121.

[CO-OWL]

If I were German I'd be inclined to the Social Democratic Party, but as Schroeder seems to be doing a bad job - I guess I could support the Christian Democrats - probably the only conservative party I know of, which my conscience would allow me to support.

Dave

I guess, the Christian social wing of the CDU could be the right thing for you.