Now this is the one light in the shadow from my view point. The four left-leaning parties [including the Danish minority party] prevented a CDU+FDP majority.

Oh, and the Left Party made it into the fourth non-city-state West German regional parliament -- four more remain. (Oh, and on the other side, the Greens made it in another East German state in Brandenburg -- some Reunification.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}