🇩🇪 German elections (federal & EU level)

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Most of the agenda look like leftist.

I am impressed how the FDP did the concessions easily.

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Angela Merkel chose a Nina Hagen song to the band of the army to play in her farewell cerimony https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/music/angela-merkel-nina-hagen-song-farewell

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Do you know that Olaf Scholz, Donald Trump and Ernesto Guevara have birthday at the same day, June 14th?

All of them have the Astrological Sign Gemini

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In some countries, some politicians say that they are neither left nor right, and that the left/right politcs is anacronic (usually they are right-wing politicians).

In Germany, they still interpret the left-right scale literally. They still seat like the French Assembly after the revolution.

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Maybe, there will be neither pure left-wing nor pure right-wing ruling coalition at the national level so soon. What do you think?
Possible pure right-wing coalitions are CDU/CSU+FDP+Afd or CDU/CSU+FDP
Possible pure left-wing coalitions are SPD+Grüne+Linke or SPD+Grüne
We don't expect CDU/CDU+FDP or SPD+Grüne to have >50% of the seats of the Bundestag in the short term, and the AfD and the Linke are not considered coalition partners.

Possible coalitions are Ampel, Jamaika, Grossekoalition, Kenya and Deutschland. All of them are mixed coalitions. We can expect long negotiations after each federal election.

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Maybe, there will be neither pure left-wing nor pure right-wing ruling coalition at the national level so soon. What do you think?
Possible pure right-wing coalitions are CDU/CSU+FDP+Afd or CDU/CSU+FDP
Possible pure left-wing coalitions are SPD+Grüne+Linke or SPD+Grüne
We don't expect CDU/CDU+FDP or SPD+Grüne to have >50% of the seats of the Bundestag in the short term, and the AfD and the Linke are not considered coalition partners.

Possible coalitions are Ampel, Jamaika, Grossekoalition, Kenya and Deutschland. All of them are mixed coalitions. We can expect long negotiations after each federal election.

R2G may still be an option for 2025 or beyond. I don't think the AfD will never be in any coalition since that wouldn't be sustainable (aside from all parties ruling it out).

I also wouldn't label the FDP as right-wing or count them to any block. FDP sees itsself as centrist party with classical liberalism as basic philosophy. It's a bit closer to the CDU on economic issues and closer to the SPD and Greens on cultural issues.

The current party system makes it increasingly difficult for parties to form governments of a pure left or right bloc.

Similar to the Weimar Republic, in which coalitions including SPD and conservative parties were usual