On January 12, the two largest parties in Germany reached a tentative agreement to maintain their coalition government, weeks after the last election. See this story.
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Edited By Richard Winger
On January 12, the two largest parties in Germany reached a tentative agreement to maintain their coalition government, weeks after the last election. See this story.
With no political party smaller than about 10% in size, we see that Germany’s 5% minimum threshold keeps out emerging political parties and keeps the status quo intact.
@James: And yet, the third- and fourth-largest parties in the Bundestag, with a total of 174 out of the 709 seats, are parties which had not won any seats at all in the previous election.
The FATAL part is the parliamentary system — same hacks having legis and exec powers.
ZERO learned from having Hitler in 1933-1945 —
— took a bit for the coalition regime to get formed in Jan 1933 with the senile Prez Hindenburg APPOINTMENT of Hitler to be prime minister.
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PR and AppV
TOTAL separation of powers
Having another grand coalition over there is only going to strengthen & make the AfD look very viable in future German elections.
15.7 weeks to be exact. At least it was not like in the Netherlands.
A SPD party convention has to approve entering coalition talks. There is an active effort to vote it down.
#NoGroKo