🇩🇪 German elections (federal & EU level)

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I know some German from high school so I was able to roughly translate this and I got a good laugh out of this. Correct me if I’m wrong, but if I’m translating this correctly she’s saying “Laschet keeps producing a**bombs every day, right up until the last second.”

Well, your translation is correct, but the point, of course, is that he set a very bad example by violating ballot secrecy - which (most likely) is mandatory - (because if your allowed to publish your vote, this will open the flood-gates to vote buying) - so probably, his vote shouldn't be counted, but invalidated...

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What is the future of die Linke?

Or will they recover? Will 2021 be just a bad year for die Linke like 2013 was for the FDP?

Well, they would have to find a way to rebound within the next few years - their old strongholds are collapsing (In many eastern districts they are now only ranked 5th behind SPD, AfD, Greens and CDU - ) - so it would be unlikely that without a big change, they would make it in the next election, because the margins in 2 of their 3 district seats werent all that comfortable, and Gysi is in his 70is...

So, may be if Scholz with Lindner and the Greens are runnig a very centrist (or - neoliberal) Government, a hard opposition from the left against SPD and Green-Sellouts - entirely on economic politics (and may be NATO), but not at all about migration or cultural issues, might help to revive - otherwise, the chances look dim...