Posted on 09/22/2013 9:29:47 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
BERLIN — An exit poll indicates that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives have emerged by far the strongest force in Germany’s election, though it’s unclear whether her coalition partners will stay in parliament.
The ARD television exit poll put support for Merkel’s Union bloc at 42 percent. But it put her coalition partners, the pro-business Free Democrats, on 4.7 percent — just below the minimum to keep their seats.
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People from Germany please weigh in...are these developments good for conservatives in Germany or not?
I need to study those.
so all the doom and gloom reporting was meant to suppress her supporters?
It’s close but by historic proportion - they never told people that.
The press will never stop trying to put the fix in.
Excellent news to my historical homeland.
AFP’s Deborah Cole says it is likely to be early Monday before we know for sure whether Merkel has won an outright majority.
The German Chancellor is steering clear of referring to one at this stage but her tone was positive when she spoke at CDU headquarters earlier.
“The party leadership will discuss everything when we have a final result but we can already celebrate tonight,” she told delighted supporters.
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Hard to say. Merkel is the exponent of go-along-get-along 'conservatism' (i.e., *not* conservatism). She's responsible for quite a few devastating decisions in recent years - first and foremost, IMO, the decision to abandon nuke power in favor of pipe-dream 'green power', and the blatently illegal 'bail-outs' of the PIGS etc. Social conservatism? Fergettaboutit. Homos rule. *barf*
Speculating, the favored outcome would force her into a coalition with the AfD, which might put a damper on Euro-centrism. Unlikely to happen, as it stands. Final tally tomorrow.
On the upside, the leftist spectrum got a kick in the nuts, though not heftily enough.
The ARD television exit poll put support for Merkel's Union bloc at 42 percent. But it put her coalition partners, the pro-business Free Democrats, on 4.7 percent -- just below the minimum to keep their seats.IOW, different day, slightly different ka-ka.
Any possibility that the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Left will form a coalition and take over?
The Social Democrats both before and after the results came in said they most definitely will not join with the Left.
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