German Elections & Politics

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Tried to answer the Google-translated questions, hopefully most of them were comprehensible:








Looks like I'm pretty right-wing in Germany.

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https://deutschland.isidewith.com/en/results/3292000083

Weird quiz which contains some decidedly "American" issues/questions which play no role whatsoever in this or any other German election campaign.

Take the death penalty question for instance. None of the seven (if we count the CSU separately) political parties who will enter the Bundestag advocates the introduction of the death penalty. Even if one of them were, they'd still need a two-third majority in Bundestag and Bundesrat to change the constitution. And even if they had that two-third majority, EU treaties still wouldn't allow it. So, this and some other of these questions deal largely in hypotheticals.

Yeah, this quiz is really American. Still, the results are alright in terms of accuracy, I guess:

CDU 67%
FDP 61%
Greens 61%
SDP 60%
Die Linke 57%
The Party 54%
CDU/CSU Union (lol) 53%
Pirates 49%
CSU in Bavaria 46%
Ecological Democratic Party 42%
Alliance for Progress and Renewal 34%
AfD 32%

https://deutschland.isidewith.com/en-gb/results/3293305781?from=PFdPUTFK9

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There was a TV debate this Thursday where AfD lead candidate Alexander Gauland flat-out admitted that his party doesn't really have a position on pensions because the two wings in his party hold diametrically opposed views on the issue. The AfD is solely held together by their opposition to immigration, Angela Merkel, "political correctness", and the "mainstream media". If they ever had to to govern, they'd probably split into two distinct political parties very quickly... a more "libertarian" one, and a more economically populist one.

As if this matters. They are not going to govern, and everybody knows it.

It does, because this means that they lack principles and a coherent ideology. They're an unholy coalition that includes antisemites and far right populists, among more moderate voices, and the only thing binding them is xenophobia and hate against mainstream institutions.

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the FDP aren't going to be tricked into taking the effectively useless position of Foreign Office this time (I assume Ozdemir will get it): they'll probably try and grab a position like Finance (kicking Schauble aside) so they won't be cucked on their tax plans like last time ("tax cuts for everybody _{if you own a hotel}"). Maybe they'll try and get Health as well, and maybe try their luck on something to do with Asylum (you can certainly bet the Greens won't be allowed near asylum). The Greens, I presume, will go laser focused on environmental causes - the coal phase out, the diesel and petrol ban, the protection of renewable subsidies, maybe some agricultural stuff if the CDU allows it.

Interesting. Here, the Finance Minister position is considered almost a political suicide- anyone who takes it is damaged, because they always try to fix the horrible housing prices and other problems, and fail. So in Germany the position is actually helpful, politically speaking?

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Any explanation for the strong Green surge? They probably took a lot of support from the FDP and SPD, but why exactly are they the ones surging so much?