So, “Angie” gets to stay in place, change a couple contacts in her Blackberry (?!) to integrate Guido and the FDP guys and continue her politic the way it was modulo a few roundups here and there (taxes and social security for example) to please the new friends.
Among other things, I find the “majority rule of alliances” most interesting in the german’s system. Theoretically, one Partei could gets 49% of the votes and nevertheless never be able to govern (ok, that would require all other Partei to form an alliance which is not practically feasible… but still). Anyway, the coalition that will finally govern got the majority of the votes and represents half of the nation.
Exit having a president elected with only 31.18% of the votes… If you see what I mean. Ok, N.Sarkozy included many representatives from the opposition to form an “opening government” (or at least make it look like one) but still, just try to imagine how our actual President’s politic would be if his legitimity was 2/5th due to the PS or the Modem…
Anyway the most aw-some thing I learned during this campaign must be that being colorblind in Germany during the Bundestagwahl must be fracking horrible. Every “Partei” has its color (Union is black, SPD red, FDP yellow, die Grune are… green and die Linke dark red) and discussing of the alliances most of the time sounded like an argument of two year-olds over a box of colored pencils >_<‘
So, making an unqualified comment here I have to say:
For the colour blinds we need to get Chuck Norris for the moderation:
He can sort black pencils by colours!