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A lot to think about...

I have one first question. Do you say that the coming election is a turning point irrespective of the result, or because you expect the right (CDU/CSU/FDP) to win, with a strong showing of the Left party, and thus the SPD to desintegrate? Or conversely, you expect no one to have a majority, and thus the CDU and SPD to from a grand coalition that fill kill them both once and for all (you seem to say that the CDU had run its course in the late 80s).

But what's next?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Aug 7th, 2005 at 04:48:17 PM EST
I think it's very, very unlikely that either the SPD or the CDU will desintegrate -- irregardless of the upcoming result.  There are far too many conservative voters in Germany for the CDU to disappear.  And the SPD, well, there are the party with the longest tradition in Germany which goes back more than 130 years.  But maybe I'm not imaginative enough regarding the implications of the next poll.

As to what's next, who knows?

by hesk on Sun Aug 7th, 2005 at 06:30:20 PM EST
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