Angela Merkel has claimed victory in the national elections in Germany that took place today. Her victory is enhanced by the fact that center-right parties won the elections overall, giving Merkel the opportunity to form a center-right government that is business friendly.
Angela Merkel Wins!
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won re-election in the German national elections today. She claimed victory with 34% of the vote for her Christian Democratic Union (DCU) party and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) party. Both are conservative parties. The classically liberal Free Democrats (FDP) won 15 percent of the votes. The three top, more conservative, parties won a solid 49% of the vote.
This result gives Merkel the votes she needs to form her government with the more center-right political parties as opposed to having to attempt to govern with the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) as she has had to do during her first term as Chancellor. That ‘grand coalition’ can be replaced with the center-right coalition of the DCU/CSU and FDP parties.
This is the first time since World War II that the leftist SPD party has done so poorly in an election, winning just 23.5 percent of the vote.
It seems that the Germans have stated pretty clearly that they will not be intimidated by the threats from al-Qaeda and the Taliban as Spain was in 2004. I think that means that the terrorists lose in Germany.
Merkel has been popular because of her stable, calm governance of the economic situation. During the election, she appealed to the German people to not take a chance by changing horses in mid-stream (so to speak). She also appealed to them to allow her to govern with the center-right, business friendly FDP, who have been out of power since 1998. Her argument being that the country needs to cut taxes in order to revitalize Germany’s economy.
From the election results, it appears the Germans gave her a resounding vote of confidence.
One disturbing aspect of the elections is that more people voted for the smaller parties in the election, including the far left ‘Left Party’ that gained 12 percent of the vote. That will give them 80 seats in parliament under the leadership of Oskar Lafontaine (otherwise known as Red Oskar), once dubbed ‘the most dangerous man in Europe’. The ‘Left Party’ favors a return to Eastern German Socialism. Their showing in the election implies there has been a small amount of movement in that direction, but certainly not enough to override the overwhelming victory of the conservative parties.
German Election Results 2009 – Video
Photo credit: Ralf Roletschek
September 27th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Good to see that there are countries around that realize that the best way to deal with a bully is not to give them what they want.
September 27th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Jawohl, Ryan.
It doesn’t surprise me that the German’s responded this way – does it you?
September 27th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
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September 27th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I wonder if she rigged it like somebody else we now with weird eyes.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Yuor analysis (SIC) of the German election result is rubbish as is your idea about the left party. Its just ideological nonsense. No wonder most americans have so little real idea what is going on in the world.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Mark – you are right, the Left Party is rubbish. Your prejudices are showing.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Yikes!
September 27th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Unfortunaly Mark is right: the title focusing on the is a example of the humanfobia that lives inside some people in the USA, that only see politics as a way to deal with terrorists and all their fears of the human plurality that may go beyond the WASP, rational economic subject model. They cant see anything beyond a us and them game which is pure hipocrisy: reagan supported religisou movements all over thw world against secular politics, especially in the middle east, bin laden received money from the CIA…
Also the idea that the Left party wants the return of east germany is completely bullsh*t, Oskar Lafoitaine was actually from the SPD before creating the party. Its to narrow to see the party this way, much like the same as saying that all democracts or republicans stand for the same things.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:18 am
This is the only good news on the subject. ObamaNation needs to get some spine…
September 28th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Mark, it’s the crazy right wing cons that get absolutely nothing. They assure each other they know the way, even though reality shows they have been wrong about everything. And when they are proven wrong, time after time, it’s always someone elses fault. Pssst, ask them about trickle down economics.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:04 am
while we were invading and occupying iraq iran was quietly building up the underground nuclear facilities with impunity. no wonder they laugh at us.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:10 am
“no wonder they laugh at us.”
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And no wonder we are in trouble. Thanks crazy cons. Your 50-75 billion Iraq operation is going to end up at around 3 trillion, counting veteran benefits. Thanks again.
And I agree, something must be done about Iran. But what can be done? It all ends in disaster. But that disaster is still better than Iran with a nuke.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Your election analysis is so short sighted. Germans are a degenerate people that don’t even have a basic instinct for reproduction. In 18 years Germany will be 30% Muslim. Where will your victory against islam be then? Germany will soon be Muslim and have shariah law because it is the will of Allah.
America is doomed in Afghanistan.
The entire West will loose in Afghanistan and the Taliban shall have Pakistan and it’s nuclear weapons. Then justice will be served against the root of all evil.
September 28th, 2009 at 7:02 am
RayGun,
Pssst, get your fat a$$ in shape as you along with most of your pink-fingered liberal weenie friends are going to be drafted into the military because we will need everyone we can to fight the looming battle for the New World Order. I know they can’t make a soldier out of you but at least you can be part of the land mine detection brigade.
September 28th, 2009 at 7:19 am
“Pssst, get your fat a$$ in shape”
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Betz, don’t listen to Honda, as my ass is very firm and tight.
Honda, everyone knows cons generally don’t like to join the military, and prefer the poor to do their fighting. But once you are in prison, you will have to fight. The brothers will not look to kindly on any con, and we all know how well hung the brothers can be. My suggestion is gradually do some stretching exercises, as it may ease the transitions to full time prison boy toy. Good luck.
September 28th, 2009 at 8:55 am
One interesting development is that the FDP, which was originally more conservative than the CDU/CSU, but moved to become a center-left party in the late 1960’s, has returned to its old position.
September 28th, 2009 at 10:27 am
RayGun,
Well now, that’s just a brilliant riposte. The only way I’ll be in prison is if I stomp the sh*t out of some mouthy little rosebud like you. As far as the military and cons(sertives) look around, they are mostly white, right and consertive. Good luck when it all hits the fan.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Hondo, RayGun appears to be a master of turnspeak, blaming the Republicans and conservatives for problems that can easily be traced to the liberal democrats. Don’t let him rile you.
@RayGun – your repeated references to prison and well hung brothers leads me to believe that you may be the one with sugar in your gas tank. You seem to be well versed in the practice of anal.
September 28th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
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September 28th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Germany has really demonstrated real sense of maturity.This is a plu for voting Angie back to continue with her good works .Germany bravo
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September 28th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
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September 29th, 2009 at 12:01 am
Merkel has indeed stayed astonishingly calm during her reign – but not because of her levelheadedness. “Angie” just sits back while others make fools of themselves while she does literally nothing but give the same speeches over and over again.
Now that CDU and FDP won the election, Germans will reap what they’ve sown – increased costs for education, less job security, cut wages. Those are not predictions but can actually be found in the FDP’s schemes. They are friendly to business, not people.
But at least, Germany will defeat terrorism. Once it has the surveillance cameras Britain has, and ID with fingerprints like Franco introduced in Spain, they will be safe from terrorists – just like those two countries were safe from dangerous islamic terrorist organisations like IRA and ETA. Yes, Germans will finally not have to worry about islamic terrorists – no, murderers – destroying their society of freedom and prosperity. They can just sit back and do the new German government deal with that.
PS: Since, for an European, the risk to die in an attack by those fanatics is only little more than a tenth of the probability of winning the lottery…shouldn’t all Europeans be rich by now?
September 29th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Monagan, I wish we could get our crazy cons over here to quite scaring the electorate also. But fear is pretty much all they have.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:59 am
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