Germany May Have to Call Another Election as Merkel Fails to Form a Coalition

by Mark Angelides

Although Angela Merkel was returned for her fourth term as German Chancellor, the gains made by the Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) seem to have created an issue with her ability to form a majority coalition. Groups within the Bundestag who traditionally make up the “Jamaica Coalition” (based on party colors) are refusing to sign up…Is this an opportunity for more gains for the right and centre right? Or is something more sinister at play?
When AfD won over 90 seats in its first big election breakthrough, parliamentarians knew that forming a workable coalition would prove more troublesome, but what they didn’t expect was Frau Merkel’s campaign promises to come back and haunt them. In the run up to the election, Merkel promised the electorate that she would do more to return failed asylum seekers (those who did not qualify or were rejected on security grounds), and this has stuck in the throats of Germany’s Green party.
The Green Party is taking issue with plans to deport Afghani asylum seekers back to Afghanistan, saying that the territory is far too dangerous and will risk lives. On top of this, there are plans in government to reduce the number of “family reunification numbers.” The Greens are insisting that there should be no limit in place at all.
CSU negotiator Alexander Dobrindt (the Bavarian sister party of Merkel’s CDU) ha accused the Greens of purposely trying to damage the coalition talks. He said: “The Greens provoke the failure of Jamaica. Anyone who presents their arguments completely unreflected by the refugee crisis, the polarisation in our country, the resulting electoral successes of the AfD, and the tensions in Europe, seems to have no serious interest in forming a government.”
But is everything as straightforward as it seems to be? The presence of the AfD in the German Bundestag has riled establishment politicians both in Germany and the European Union. AfD’s success is a rejection of the founding principles of the EU, and as such, perhaps this is more a political maneuver to oust the Populist Party.
By calling a snap election (on the basis that a coalition can’t be formed), it will give the establishment parties better targeted ammunition in terms of where to campaign and to send resources then they previously had. They do not need to wipe out the AfD, just make them lose several seats; they can then claim a rejection of “extremist politics” and proceed without fear of political friction.

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5 thoughts on “Germany May Have to Call Another Election as Merkel Fails to Form a Coalition”

  1. First of all, this is fake news.
    The talks of the Jamaica Coalition are still going on, they just hit a couple of points they disagree about that they may or may not be able to find a compromise on. Chances are it will turn out exactly as Merkel planned.
    Next, if the Jamaica Coalition fails, there’s other options, for example they could return to the “Grand Coalition” (CDU+SPD — a bad idea, that would be almost like Republicans and Democrats in the US deciding to just run 1 shared candidate in order to get their anointed one into power) that has been running Germany for the previous 8 years.
    SPD said they don’t want to do it (they’re seeing their election results plunging because nobody can make out any difference between them and Merkel anymore – so people might as well pick the original instead of the copy), but SPD is not exactly known for standing up to anything ever. If the Jamaica talks were to fail, they’d get in saying “We don’t want to, but it’s the only option and we’re being the reasonable ones (in exchange for some money being sent to our officials, of course)”.
    Finally, if they called for new elections, chances are the people would be rather pissed at the so-called elected representatives for being unable to form a coalition with so many options available to them – as a result, the likely outcome would be both AfD and Die Linke getting more votes in protest against the big parties. CDU, SPD, FDP and Greens would likely lose votes for being unable to get their stuff together (and that’s one more reason why they don’t want this to happen).

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      • I’d prefer a different punishment for her, her twin sister Hitlery, and their best buddies Bush and Obama — make them do some work they’d find embarrassing in the public 16 hours a day for the rest of their natural lives.
        Clean public toilets, go to the park to pick up what other people’s dogs left behind, that sort of stuff.
        And give any income that job may generate (plus anything they owned before) to their victims.

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  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exnaY0l4XsM ROTFLMAO
    Hang Merkel, Juncker, and any other pedopriest or E.U.politician that betrays the Citizens …….. as an example for the next leaders to do their duty.
    http://theinfounderground.com/smf/index.php?topic=20058.0
    It is government’s main duty to kill raping, pillaging, murdering, invaders at the border.
    It is the responsibility of every government to ensure the safety and security of its people
    Then to hang any traitor who opens the City Gates to them ……..
    Sink the Invader’s Landing Craft and shoot any that make it to the shore line.
    Immigration without Assimilation is Invasion.
    LEADERS protect their Citizens ….. TRAITORS allow enemies in to attack the Citizens.

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  3. It’s easy to form a coalition in Germany. First the CDU needs to dump Frau Merkel. Then the newly led CDU makes a coalition agreement with the FDP, announces some well-chosen concessions on immigration, and the AFD agrees to support the CDU-FDP government without joining it. Everyone is happy, especially the German voters who chose a right-wing majority, and should get the government they voted for.

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