Germany Votes

[Klause]

Cdu/CSU under Merkel will form power...less votes than last time. This would be like our conservative party.


The SPD which used to be 2nd... Like a coalition here between liberals and ndp... Relegated to the bottom.


AfD to form opposition. They are conservative Germany First anti immigrant pro freedoms


AfD didn't exist 9 years ago.

[sumdumguy]

Think the AfD will wake Merkel up?

[Klause]

It'll be interesting who is in the coalition... The FDP which are libertarian pretty much, the greens, or AfD... She has to pick two the way it looks.



Vote counts coming in still.

[chuckChuck]

Its interesting that she has served for a long time already - 12 years. She must be quite popular to get reelected after letting in nearly a million refugees in 2015 alone.

But Germany has a long history of guest workers from Turkey. In 2011 there was some 2.5 million with a Turkish background and 700,000 had German citizenship.

[Klause]

Its interesting that she has served for a long time already - 12 years. She must be quite popular to get reelected after letting in nearly a million refugees in 2015 alone.

But Germany has a long history of guest workers from Turkey. In 2011 there was some 2.5 million with a Turkish background and 700,000 had German citizenship.

That just about cost her the election and why AfD got so many votes.

Merkel has severely restricted immigration quotas since then.

The pro immigration socialist party had the lowest turnout since WWII.

What's that tell ya Chuck?

[chuckChuck]

That just about cost her the election and why AfD got so many votes.

Merkel has severely restricted immigration quotas since then.

The pro immigration socialist party had the lowest turnout since WWII.

What's that tell ya Chuck?

That she is still popular even considering the refugee issue. Politics is politics. Most politicians defeat themselves and wear out their welcome. Harper, Wall come to mind.

It wasn't that many years ago the WASPS in Canada didn't like all the post war German immigration in Canada. There was a lot of resentment because of all the Canadians who died fighting Nazi's. Now Germany is our friend an ally and Germans are us. Funny how things change.

[chuckChuck]

Exit polls showing the AFD getting around 13% of the vote. First time a far right party will return to the German parliament since the Nazi era.
I doubt Andrew Scheer will want to run on an anti immigrant platform.

[Klause]

"wasps"?

[chuckChuck]

"wasps"?

White Anglo Saxon Protestant

[macdon02]

The old bird had never acquired 40% of the electorate yet. She isn't that popular.

[malleefarmer]

New Zealand parliament as well doing deals after there eelcetion I believe will double check, its nothing govt when deals have to be done to form power.

[littledoggie]

Klause, can you explain the leanings of the different parties? I saw a graph that indicated they were all right of center. The 3 main ones that were voted in.