So we now have exit polls from the 3 German federal Laender which had elections today: Sachsen-Anhalt in the east, Baden Wuerttemberg and the Rhenish Palatinate, as it used to be known in English many decades ago.
Link here to Spiegel main page (in German but coloured bar charts of the exit poll results are easy to follow even for non-German speakers). (The link is to their "front page" so it probably won't show that stuff after today)
http://www.spiegel.de/
A few observations:
- as DR noted on the Europe's Doomed thread, big votes for the AfD (the closest thing in spirit to our UKIP): predictable but nonetheless depressing and problematic for others trying to build coalitions. 12 per cent ish in the two western regions, 23 per cent in the more socially challenging east.
- the days of the CDU and the SPD being the "big two" who could happily alternate with minor coalition partners nationally and in most regions seem to be well and truly gone
- Greens are the largest party now in the state of BW, which is just mind-blowing. It was an absolute fortress of the conservative CDU for decades. But sadly their coalition with the SPD no longer has a majority due to collapse in SPD vote.
Link here to Spiegel main page (in German but coloured bar charts of the exit poll results are easy to follow even for non-German speakers). (The link is to their "front page" so it probably won't show that stuff after today)
http://www.spiegel.de/
A few observations:
- as DR noted on the Europe's Doomed thread, big votes for the AfD (the closest thing in spirit to our UKIP): predictable but nonetheless depressing and problematic for others trying to build coalitions. 12 per cent ish in the two western regions, 23 per cent in the more socially challenging east.
- the days of the CDU and the SPD being the "big two" who could happily alternate with minor coalition partners nationally and in most regions seem to be well and truly gone
- Greens are the largest party now in the state of BW, which is just mind-blowing. It was an absolute fortress of the conservative CDU for decades. But sadly their coalition with the SPD no longer has a majority due to collapse in SPD vote.
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