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Overhang mandates and Merkel's majority | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Overhang mandates and Merkel's majority (4.00 / 3)

Correct. And should the SPD ever consider a toppling of Merkel, it would also have to consider the possibility of new elections as a consequence, and since a coalition with the Left Party is highly unlikely at the moment while the SPD itself doesn't poll well, nothing good would come out of it for them.

I posted this diary more out of theoretical interest, and so that I can weave in some recent happenings...

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Fri Jun 8th, 2007 at 11:49:48 AM EST
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Re: Overhang mandates and Merkel's majority (none / 1)

After getting into the Bremen parliament, what needs to happen for the Linke to stop being pariahs?

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jun 8th, 2007 at 12:13:42 PM EST
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Re: Overhang mandates and Merkel's majority (none / 1)

Judging from PDS-SPD coalitions in East Germany: to sell out?

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by DoDo on Fri Jun 8th, 2007 at 06:26:00 PM EST
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