The official confirmed results have her just short of a majority. Her coalition partner the FDP and the new Anti-Euro Alternative for Germany (That Merkel wouldn’t have wanted to work with) both narrowly failed to get the 5% necessary to win seats. Combined the right parties won 51% of the party list vote but it doesn’t matter.
This is not good, the right lost seats overall, Merkel’s CDU/CSU benefited from the failure of her coalition partner.
The SPD and Greens could theoretically team up with the commies to form a bare majority but the SPD has ruled it out.
She’ll have to do the Grand coalition (her preference) or team with the smaller Greens instead (probably better because they’d have less influence). Disgusting. Nothing to celebrate. She stays in power but with a new leftist tumor attached to her hip. I consider this a loss since the SPD/Greens actually winning was never in the cards. Best thing that could happen is the SPD and Greens refuse to play ball and there’s a new election soon that goes better. I’m sure the SPD will play ball though.
Yeah, if I HAD to pick one of the left wing parties to form a government with, I’d go with the Greens because they’re smaller and more marginalized. (if they’re anything like the Green Party USA, they’re probably also more honest, less corrupt, and more efficient at managing things, but far left wackjobs)
My 2006 proposal for a “grand coalition” of a RINO (Topinka) Green (Whitney) Constitution Party (Randy Stufflebeam) government in Illinois replacing the Chicago Dems is sounding better and better. Topinka could name Comrade Rich Whitney as Lt. Governor and promise the Greens they could legalize weed and give everyone solar powered cars, and appoint a Green to some useless state dept. like Chairman of the Illinois Arts Council. It couldn’t be worse than what we got under Blago and Quinn, and if it did, Stufflebeam would have veto power anyway and could threaten to leave the RINO-Green government at any time, and they’d need his 0.5% to have a majority. ;-)
Getting back to Germany though, and in all seriousness... I wonder what the difference between the Socialist Democrat and “The Left” Party is? I googled them and the Socialists are supposedly only “center-left” yet “Marxist-influenced” and part of the alliance of “International Socialists”. On the other hand, “The Left” party is supposedly “far-left” and “somewhat extremist”. It reminds me of that recent NYC election where the Dem who won was supposedly “more progressive” than the openly lesbian marxist. God help us if the “marxist influenced party” aligned with International Socialists is the “more moderate” party.
You’d think all these commies could get along.
argh