The European Tribune is a forum for thoughtful dialogue of European and international issues. You are invited to post comments and your own articles.
Please REGISTER to post.
But I think no voter intended to create a situation which is not clear, they hoped for a either a black-yellow take-over or for continuation of red-green, I guess. The fact that the vote ended up to create a situation that seems to indicate that neither of the two solutions is wanted without replacing them with a new clear-cut coalition is a problem.
You simply don't know, if the voters would rather have a black-yellow-green coaltion under Merkel or a grand coalition under Merkel or Schroeder or a red-green-yellow coalition under Schroeder.
So, what is the will of the voter? It's not clear. That's the problem.
And surely the 12 or 13% who voted for parties other than CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP or Greens did not want either red-green or black-yellow.
The will of the people is truly unclear, and this is fairly represented in the results. Now it's up to the people's elected representatives to figure out the mess. That's representative democracy.
Two other thoughts about this situation as it now stands:
by Oui - Apr 20
by Oui - Apr 191 comment
by Oui - Apr 197 comments
by Oui - Apr 18
by Oui - Apr 17
by Oui - Apr 162 comments
by Oui - Apr 1618 comments
by Oui - Apr 156 comments
by Oui - Apr 14
by Oui - Apr 145 comments
by Oui - Apr 131 comment
by Oui - Apr 124 comments
by Oui - Apr 112 comments
by Oui - Apr 10
by Oui - Apr 93 comments
by Oui - Apr 91 comment
by Oui - Apr 83 comments
by Oui - Apr 69 comments
by Oui - Apr 6