LOL! I just pictured what you said... :-)
I don't think Schavan will play a significant role in the new government. She is in charge of education, and that is a field in which the "Länder" (regions) traditionally claim more competences than on other political fields.
D'oh, you're right!
BTW, we missed you, and the rest of the German crew: would you write us some diaries about what's happening now?
For example, what's up with the Greens, any internal changes? What's this with the votes on deputy parliamentary heads? What comes out of the coalition talks? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
What's this with the votes on deputy parliamentary heads?
Oh, yes. The fuzz about Lothar Bisky not getting the votes to become deputy parliamentary heads, although every faction is guaranteed one deputy post. Since the other factions can not hope to prevent the Linke from getting one of the posts, there seems to be only one explanation: They could offer their yes-vote to a different member of the Linke-faction, maybe one of the WASG-part. The strategy behind this could be to divide the (quite heterogenous) parts of the Linke and play PDS vs WASG.
