Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Sept 30, 2014 22:02:33 GMT
Bunch of letters in today's Grauniad praising the cultural policies of the DDR and claiming that all that Stasi business wasn't all that terrible really. Remarkable.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Sept 30, 2014 22:20:11 GMT
Bunch of letters in today's Grauniad praising the cultural policies of the DDR and claiming that all that Stasi business wasn't all that terrible really. Remarkable. Some people never learn. And worse still, some people already learned and actively try to pretend that their own wishful thinking trumps other people's genuine suffering. |
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Post by markgoodair on Nov 20, 2014 10:45:11 GMT
History has been made, Bodo Ramelow of Die Linke will be the next Minister President of Thuringia.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2014 14:26:06 GMT
History has been made, Bodo Ramelow of Die Linke will be the next Minister President of Thuringia. The Linke/SPD/Green coalition will have a majority of 1? No room for any disagreements there.. |
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 20, 2014 14:28:32 GMT
History has been made, Bodo Ramelow of Die Linke will be the next Minister President of Thuringia. Red Red Green coalition .... |
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Post by Devonian on Jan 18, 2015 13:13:32 GMT
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Post by iainbhx on Jan 18, 2015 13:41:20 GMT
They would go out of the Landtag, but not the districts where there is a 3% threshold rtaher than 5%.
The Hamburg electoral system is quite complicated, it is not simple MMP
As it says in the electoral law
Jeder Wähler hat zehn Stimmen:
fünf Wahlkreisstimmen für Kandidaten im Wahlkreis
fünf Landesstimmen für Kandidaten auf den Landeslisten oder für Landeslisten in ihrer Gesamtheit.
The added fun is that not all Wahlkreisen have five seats, some only have three or four.
This will be the first time that the franchise has been extended to 16 and 17 year olds in Hamburg.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 18, 2015 15:47:59 GMT
It should be strongly noted at this point that Hamburg is about as representative of the German electorate as Ceredigion is of the English electorate.
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Post by iainbhx on Jan 18, 2015 16:32:07 GMT
It should be strongly noted at this point that Hamburg is about as representative of the German electorate as Ceredigion is of the English electorate. It did, however, have a highly exciting Black-Green coalition for a while and it is more representative than this year's other Landtag election - Bremen. |
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Post by Devonian on Jan 29, 2015 20:44:59 GMT
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Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Jan 30, 2015 18:31:26 GMT
Hamburg certainly has reverted to normal service in recent years hasn't it.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jan 30, 2015 19:19:16 GMT
Hamburg certainly has reverted to normal service in recent years hasn't it. Just a bit. Gives the FDP some hope as well. Noticeable that there seems to be no slightly angry/very ridiculous populist party for a change, although AfD have probably pissed on all their chips. |
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Post by Devonian on Feb 6, 2015 21:47:52 GMT
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Feb 6, 2015 22:16:20 GMT
The West German SPD - the Hansa made flesh.
(I mean that positively by the way)
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Post by Devonian on Feb 14, 2015 12:09:26 GMT
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Post by carlton43 on Feb 14, 2015 12:19:32 GMT
SPD top and AfD bottom! Sort of German Merseyside. Must be a right shit hole? |
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Post by Richard Allen on Feb 14, 2015 15:30:08 GMT
SPD top and AfD bottom! Sort of German Merseyside. Must be a right shit hole? Quite the opposite. |
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Post by carlton43 on Feb 14, 2015 16:40:05 GMT
SPD top and AfD bottom! Sort of German Merseyside. Must be a right shit hole? Quite the opposite. Yes, I do know it. It was a wind-up. |
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Post by markgoodair on Feb 15, 2015 17:36:45 GMT
Bad result for CDU down to 16%. AFD set to enter the first Western state parliament and the FDP keep their seats, so Liberalism is not dead in Germany.
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Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Feb 15, 2015 17:38:49 GMT
ARD exit poll: SPD 47, CDU 16, Greens 12, Left Party 8.5, FDP 7, AfD 5.2
ZDF exit poll: SPD 46.5, CDU 16, Greens 11.5, Left Party 9, FDP 7.5, AfD 5.5
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