Germany gazing into the abyss (federal elections)

[Husar]

Can we fold other elections and electoral events going on right now into this thread?

Iraqi Kurdistan seems set to choose independence in a vote rejected by pretty much the whole world, and Spain is going jackboots on Catalonia over the impending referendum.

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[KukriKhan]

[Fragony]

The childless Mutti can't form a government it seems, Germany has never been this unstable (and yeah I know but that was then we can't hold that against them, talking post WW2 Germany). Will she das Schulzen or not, interesting.

[Husar]

I think unstable is a bit of a dramatization. I fully understand why the SPD does not want a coalition with Merkel again, they can only lose in the end. The same people who now pressure them to do it may not vote for them later if they do...
A new election would be interesting. Make Politics Exciting Again!

[Husar]

Just saw that the SPD wants to negotiate now (because the president begged them to find a solution without a new election), but if they come to any agreement, they want their members to vote on it. Perhaps they have a very strong position now for the negotiations, but last time they got a lot of their ideas done but somehow Merkel got a lot of the credit and the SPD still lost votes, so it's a strange situation IMO.

[Fragony]

Schultz is going to be schafted by his own party I t think, maybe it's waterloo for the childless mutti as well. For German voters it makes sense that there will be a government with the christian-democrats and social-democrats but these two ego's will have to go Lord of the Flies on eachother somewhere else I reckon. Because it's Germany it's going to be boring but effective

Schultz is a pretty nice guy by the way, shared a coffee with him and his wife, they just decided they could share a table with us. Gave her some fruit and cheese I bought at bio-market, I hope he disliked it

[Gilrandir]

A new election would be interesting. Make Politics Exciting Again!

What if the new one yields the same (or almost the same) results?

[Seamus Fermanagh]

What if the new one yields the same (or almost the same) results?

Then its 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

[Husar]

What if the new one yields the same (or almost the same) results?

Then the excitement intensifies!

[Gilrandir]

Then its 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

But the old new boss doesn't seem capable of creating a government under the existing conditions. Is there any hope the electors' preferences will change in so short a time?