There’s not much news currently. The atmosphere across the board is quite sombre - Scholz was bitter, Habeck was sombre, even Linnemann wasn’t happy. Van Aken of Linke was happy but also calm and measured.
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Don’t you think that if the whole party would have asked him, he would have caved in? Wasn’t refusing part of wanting not to come over as a traitor to the chancellor?
But let’s assume he managed to reduce the SPD loss from 10% to „only“ 5%.
Then he’s the candidate that lost 5%. Not a good start.
Now the party is anchored at -10-% which should result in Scholz stepping down immediately.
I well remember the times of these "elefantenrunde" TV shows when strauss, wehner, barzel and other luminaries clashed. this was entertaining. I much prefer the boring "discussion" we see today...
(Not your fault I know, but it would be a lot easier to form some kind of mental map of what was going on and remember which party was which if they used catchy names instead of acronyms...)
Obviously what needs to happen needs to happen but my view is that, if at all possible, the Greens basically have a duty to stay in the opposition so that there is a real alternative alongside the Linke and not just a loud AfD. Also: UK pundits are making my head hurt so poor are most of the takes.
That’s more of a party political point to me and, in that sense, the less relevant issue (though I don’t disagree). I really just think it’d be pretty bad if there is no really strong (as much as that is possible) progressive opposition.
"Van Aken" is randomly a surname adopted by some members of my (Aachenerin) Grandma's family when they moved to the Netherlands in the 1930s. They then emigrated to the US & kept the name.
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If the Grüne end back in government it’ll be a three party coalition. Tricky
If BSW and FDP do end up out, CDU/CSU-SPD is the most likely
If FDP and/or BSW get in, hell knows
Smart man, saw the writing on the wall and decided to let Scholz own the loss, rather then him.
Which is accurate, as the Scholzomat caused the issue on the first place.
But let’s assume he managed to reduce the SPD loss from 10% to „only“ 5%.
Then he’s the candidate that lost 5%. Not a good start.
Now the party is anchored at -10-% which should result in Scholz stepping down immediately.
Then Pistorius can be a fresh start.
But maybe Scholz will cling on?
ARD
FDP 4.9%
BSW 4.8%
ZDF
FDP 4.9%
BSW 5.0%
Based on Hochrechnung around 19:30 (combination of exit poll and first counts)
If they're leaking votes to Linke The Greens really won't want to be in government nationally.