2013 Elections in Germany

[batmacumba]

I know that It's an oversimplification (chain transfers, etc.), but It really feels that the pirate craze was nothing but a path for disgruntled FDP voters to go from the Greens to CDU-CSU...






Also, what happened to Linke, did their new, westernized, 'new left' face scare former-GDR voters?

[batmacumba]

No, their new, sectarianized old-left face scared protest voters.

Oh! So I've got a completly inverted perception about Kipping and the Ema.Li current!?!
I guess they are those rabious self-importante, self-absorbed, arrogant, self-styled 'extremists' then? Just like old Petistas...


Anyway, that's the state of things:

[batmacumba]

No, their new, sectarianized old-left face scared protest voters.

Oh! So I've got a completly inverted perception about Kipping and the Ema.Li current!?!

No, I'm thinking Wagenknecht etc and the remnants of the old West German DKP and trot groups, with the unexpected addition of Lafontaine to their ideological ranks. Kipping, within the intra-party scheme of things, is center (and kinda new-left). Her cochair is very much old-left (and West German) - and while not biographically that kind of old-left he's their candidate.

But they were around previously. Why are they impacting more, now - weakness of the current leadership?