Today the 17th Bundestag, the german parliament, has been reelected. As a short summary, one half of the former government is past, while the other half has been reelected. According to the first extrapolations, here are the first results:
- CDU/CSU: 33%
- SPD: 23%
- FDP: 15%
- Linke: 13%
- Grüne: 10%
- Others: 6%
Both of the major parties (especially the SPD) lost, while the smaller parties won a lot of ballots. The result means that the CDU will form a government with the FDP.
I’m just listening the broadcast of the Deutschlandfunk. One of the speakers postulated that the SPD will reunion with the Linke. I was not a big fan of such plans.
The result is not exactly my taste. I prefered a government of one of the two major parties together with two of the smaller ones. But maybe it’s is better than the current (read as: former) government of CDU and SPD (aka grand coalition).
