🇩🇪 German elections (federal & EU level)

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I don't think this article needs a separate thread - it should be posted in the German election thread.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/tom_nuttall/status/1443086669742317571

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I doubt Lindner was that delusional that he'd think black-yellow would get a majority in 2021, but as 2017 was widely assumed to be Merkel's last election, the main obstacle for a potential coalition would be gone.

Actually, in 2020 AFAIK an Union+FDP majority did seem possible - because of the "rally round the flag" effect that benefitted Merkel

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Elect a left wing government, get the same absurd attitude to fiscal policy.

RIP Europe. You were too conservative, too intellectually impotent and too risk averse to ever have much chance of adapting to the 21st century

Did Germans even elect a left-wing government? Red-Red-Green has no majority, so CDU and/or FDP are needed for a government. Luckily for SPD and Greens, AfD is extremely toxic.

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Elect a left wing government, get the same absurd attitude to fiscal policy.

RIP Europe. You were too conservative, too intellectually impotent and too risk averse to ever have much chance of adapting to the 21st century

Did Germans even elect a left-wing government? Red-Red-Green has no majority, so CDU and/or FDP are needed for a government. Luckily for SPD and Greens, AfD is extremely toxic.

Yes 1998-2005, you had a Red-Green coalition under Schroeder.

I said "even", not "ever".

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Yeah, Centre Party, which gained Bundestag representation when an AfD (it's always them!) MP defected to them.