🇩🇪 German elections (federal & EU level)

[MaxQue]

Her harelip attracted national attention last February when she unveiled her antidemocratic and anti-social behavior by hurling a bouquet at legally-elected Governor Thomas Kemmerich's feet.

Nothing wrong or antidemocratic or antisocial about protesting someone who collaborated with Nazis to get power.

[MaxQue]

BTW, coal isn't ramped up in Germany, instead it's renewables and yes, pitifully, partly also natural gas.

All the german progress in renewables reducing carbon emissions has been completely wiped out by the knee-jerk removal of nuclear power without any real plan or thought due to a momentary public panic and a decade long smear campaign that was stoked by a certain party.

Except no nuclear plant has been built since the 80's (and all East German ones closed in 1990 due to poor Soviet conception), so most of them would have been closed anyways due to their age.

The company who built them all (Siemens) is also out of the industry and their deals with Russia for it, which is, in my opinion, the main problem of nuclear (having to rely on an hostile dictatorship for uranium).

[MaxQue]

TBF you were likely answering this not based on data at the time - which suggested a Union stranglehold on the electorate challenged only by the Greens - but more on your gut. And I'm not sure if that proves you have more foresight or are just a committed SPD partisan - not a bad thing but just a recognition of  perspectives.

I'll admit having voted on mostly my "gut feeling".
I started on the premise that most Germans were tired of voting for the CDU (which proved to be a correct assumption), while simultaneously being scared of a Green Party, which had been becoming more and more radicalized, and becoming more and more sympathetic to the [censored], FFF, Extinction Rebellion, Jan Böhmermann's brigade and other far-left terror groups (which also proved itself true).
TBH, in the meantime I was genuinely dreading the prospect of the CDU or the Greens remaining or becoming, respectively, the next chancellor party.

LOL @ the idea of the Greens becoming "more and more radicalized" at a time when they had their first ever chairperson duo where both leaders were coming from the party's Realo wing and none from the Leftish wing. Leaders who went out of their way these past three years to design strategies intended to open the party up for new voter groups in the political center, resulting in the party's best Bundestag election result ever (albeit of course weaker one than originally aimed for). A leadership duo who for the past couple of weeks had faced increasing criticism from the media, environmental groups, and their own voters for being too willing to make easy compromises with the FDP (said criticism eventually led to Baerbock's statement mentioned in President Johnson's last post).

Also LOL @ the idea that the Greens have becoming "more and more sympathetic to Extinction Rebellion". I'm aware that Hades - based on his posting history - probably hasn't much personal contact or experience with members of the Green party. Well, I have such regular contact and I have yet to meet a Green who has a distinctly positive opinion on Extinction Rebellion. They probably exist somewhere - most likely in some circles at the party's base, but most members I know roll their eyes at ER.

Finally, as a member of the Green party, I'm personally offended by the libelous claim that my party is "more and more sympathetic to far-left terror groups" and if Hades wants to have any dealings with me in the future I'm expecting a apology from him on the matter.

Lyssa (the Greek Goddess of frenzy and mad rage) would be a more appropriate name than Hades.

[MaxQue]

So major update: According to ZEIT, cabinet positions will be allocated as follows:

SPD:
- Chancellorship and Chief of Chancellery
- Interior
- Defense
- Construction & Housing
- Labor & Social Affairs
- Health
- Economic Development

Greens:
- Economy & Climate
- Foreign
- Family Affairs
- Agriculture
- Environment & Consumer Protection

FDP:
- Finance
- Justice
- Traffic
- Education & Science

Germany has a Minister of Traffic?? Or is that the person that works the traffic lights for the coalition? (lol)

Building of federal road, Autobahnen, railroad tracks, public transport, all kind of regulatory stuff concerning vehicles, airflight and so on ... the number one word for Germans to translate "Verkehr" into English would be "traffic". This isn't right, though?

Transport? Transportation?