D. N. Vercáriâ
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(last post: March 15, 2008 - 16:51)
Citizen #26:
Dieter N Vercáriâ | > > This is in fact something that might probably happen. It's IMHO slightly better than the CDU/CSU/FDP option, since in some social issues the CSU is closer to the SPD than to the CDU. A CDU/FDP dominated government would be the worst case scenario.
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> But CSU isn't Stoiber's party? I believed he's "righter" than Merkel... Of course it wouldn't be the first case where a party has different oponion with his leader...
SPD/CSU is of course a sick alliance, since in some aspects the CSU is indeed more conservative than the CDU; but Bavaria has been governed by absolute majorities of the CSU ever since I remember, so as a "single political party" in Bavaria the political spectrum of the CSU is a bit wider than the spectrum of the CDU, which is maybe one reason for their success in Bavaria. And yes, the Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber is the CSU's party leader.
> > Incidentally, I'm registered in the constituency where Joschka Fischer is the direct candidate of the Greens, so I already planned to vote for Fischer with my 1st vote.
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> O yes, please, do so... I've always admirated your foreign minister and Deputy Cancellor...
He's got a brain in his head. ;-) And he's thinking in European, even global dimensions, not only looking at the small world of Germany. I think this is worth the reward of a vote.
Well, he never got elected by the constituency, he always got into the Bundestag over the Federal list of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ("Green Party"). I can't forsee who's the favourite in the constituency, in recent Bundestag elections Frankfurt was divided into 3 constituencies, now there are only 2. In 2002 the winner in Fischer's constituency was a conservative CDU member, Erika Steinbach.
On a side note, the uppermost West German member of the PDS, Dieter Dehm, is from the same part of town where the Greens are usually getting triumphal results, up to 30 % in some of the polling districts. I used to live in this peculiar part of town for 20 years, until I moved out 9 years ago.
- D. N. Vercáriâ
ˇPecüliárismeu és escasençâ - MRP!
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