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Guido Westerwelle (FDP):

"We want a real change. We will not participate in a traffic lights coaltion."

by Saturday (geckes(at)gmx.net) on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 12:49:08 PM EST
Yeah, but what do the real FDP politicians say? </snark>

Right now it looks like the traffic light is their only ticket back into power.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 12:57:15 PM EST
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Who is Westerwelle anyway? Bloedmann
by mimi on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 01:05:20 PM EST
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A Black-Green-Yellow coalition?  Would the Greens join up with the CDU/FDP?
by Rick in TX on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 01:07:22 PM EST
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What???? If they do I emigrate to the US... :-)
by mimi on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 01:10:48 PM EST
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  1.  If you are an entrepreuner - you are welcome to the USA.  Come, build a business, create jobs, and keep more of your money to yourself, your family, your church, your charity, instead of giving the all-knowing, all-generous, all-efficient state.

  2. You may also go to Hong Kong and Singapore.

  3. Or stay in Germany and promote free-market.

  4.  Ahh, on the last thought - welcome to America! :-)
by ilg37c on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 11:28:04 PM EST
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not really.

Although this situation is so amazingly in suspension, I'd say: No way.

by Saturday (geckes(at)gmx.net) on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 01:14:43 PM EST
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Well, there are no historical parallels, but some people have thought about it already, especially in Baden Wuertemberg where both FDP and Greens have a strong tradition.

ARD also just reported that the Bavarian environment minister thought about it aloud

by PeWi on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 01:18:00 PM EST
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Merkel:

"We will also talk with the Greens"

by Saturday (geckes(at)gmx.net) on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 01:24:30 PM EST
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Which just proves that Merkel is not a true conservative. Merkel should join the FDP in the long run. Wasn't it anyway just a matter of circumstances that she ended up to be a protege of Kohl? Not a matter of ideology?
by mimi on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 01:46:12 PM EST
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I don´t know....

What I do know is that some commenters here will disagree with my comment below. :)

But IMO the CDU - the conservatives - is a center-right party. And the SPD a center-left party.
With overlap in the "center", the "moderate" position.

A lot of German "conservatives" would be considered wild-eyed leftist radicals in the USA. :)

by Detlef (Detlef1961_at_yahoo_dot_de) on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 01:58:52 PM EST
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Greens:

We would have nothing to say to them

I was watching it on BBCNews and it doesn't seem like the greens want anything to do with CDU

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by The Voice on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 02:01:31 PM EST
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You shouldn´t write such things when I´m sitting in front of my computer and drinking a beer!
I nearly ruined my keyboard! :)

To answer your question.
No.
Such a coalition would require a real miracle (with direct "heavenly" intervention).

by Detlef (Detlef1961_at_yahoo_dot_de) on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 01:23:52 PM EST
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Nah. not plausible. Under the right circumstances I could just possibly imagine a black-green coalition (i.e. if there was a black green majority but no black yellow or red green one) But a black-green-yellow coalition just doesn't make any sense.
by MarekNYC on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 01:39:07 PM EST
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It's plausible enough for the newsweenies to give it a catchy name.

Since the first results came out, the lightweights of the airwaves have been calling this the "Jamaica coalition".

Poor Bob Marley must be rolling over in his grave.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Sun Sep 18th, 2005 at 04:30:08 PM EST
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