German General Elections

[karohemd]

The preliminary results are in and it looks like it's going to be a christian union/liberal coalition with the social democrats getting their worst result in history (around 23%). The Pirate Party haven't made the 5% hurdle but 2% (the biggest percentage for single party under 5%) is a very impressive result for a party that has existed for only three years and was on the register for the general elections for the first time.

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Hm, no, I don't think they'll go under completely.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Sure, I meant: could they be destroyed as a party that leads government? When people eventually get fed up with the CDU/CSU, will they come back to the SPD, or might they turn to the Left / Greens instead?

There's a feeling in the Labour Party here (which might just be partly a superstition) that if they go below 18% support, that will signify that they will never lead a government again: other parties will have taken too much of their territory. But of course our electoral system is very different: if a UK party had 18% of the vote, that would probably give it much less than 18% of the seats in Parliament.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Hm, I think that's a bit early to tell. I guess all they need is a big screwup by the new govt. and people will be flocking back. All my info (and not much of it) is second hand, though, so it's a bit hard to tell.