Christian Democrats. People in Europe might just see this as a chance to get their identities back and stop being considered second class citizens to their Muslim brethren.
Or maybe people are realizing Socialism just doesn't work.
It is really unclear to me how much of this vote really was about m"rejecting reforms. If that were the case why the CDU?
I understand that it might well be a mere protest vote, and that they had little other place to go given the coalition with the Greens, but, on the other hand, maybe all of the "reform rejection" rhetoric is just media spin.
Note we heard that same nonsense in the UK election that just passed, but this time focused on Iraq. If the Tories did so well, how is that a repudiation of Iraq? It seems far more plausible that it signals disillusionment with Labour and the Euro crowd.
We heard similar spin over the Howard in in Australia,and there seems to be a growing chorus if similar rationalizations forming to spin away Canadian politics.