🇩🇪 German elections (federal & EU level)

[The Mikado]

Any chance of an SDP-FDP-Linke coalition? That would be my preference

Zero. FDP and Linke don't fit together. How is that supposed to work? Die Linke is way to the left of the SPD even on economic issues, where the FDP is classical liberal or center-right (and liberal on social issues). There are already obstacles for SPD-Green-Linke and SPD-Green-FDP, though both are possible. The latter certainly more so, and just today Baerbock expressed skepticism about Die Linke and their foreign policy.

Trafficlight is easily my preference, though SPD-Greens alone would even be better with Die Linke droping below five percent. That's not likely though.

I guess libertarian socialism isn't a thing in Germany

In all seriousness traffic light seems okay, though green parties have a tendency to be preachy and myopic.

I really think you need to look up what "Die Linke" is, where it comes from, and what it's about. You're clearly having a bit of trouble with understanding why a libertarian free market party would never dream of sitting in the same coalition with the renamed remnants of the old state party of East Germany.

[The Mikado]

These are fun:

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1442183678235451396

Under 30s.

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1442185519639707653

Over 60s.

[The Mikado]

The stereotype of the elderly die Linke voter doesn't seem very accurate then...

Oryx beat me to it, but it's more that the old people voting Linke are...ahem...aging out of the electorate, steadily.

[The Mikado]

Proportional representation with a 5 per cent threshold, but 299 of the 598 seats filled by First past the post with compensation seats.

I love how Germans just blow past this when describing their system and not going into the fact that the overhang seats are this complex ridiculous mess only a mathematician could understand.

Only Germans would invent a system like this in the late 1940s pre-computer, when the math would've been seriously non-trivial.