Now she is so over, the highly anticipated parliamentary elections in 2009. And after the smoke has cleared, the final analysis, but somehow everything stayed once again as it was. The self-styled "major parties", which long ago are not as big as they still believe it myself would like to share their many years of decline continues, undeterred. The already established under the so-called "smaller" parties for all risen slightly. But fresh air is by new political forces are still not fed into the parliament.
by far the strongest group of voters are again this time the non-voters, whose number now the 18 million mark has clearly passed, almost twice as high as that of the SPD voters and especially larger than the accumulated number of voters along the two parties CDU and FDP, which still make or rather just because the government now . Probably never before has a (n) candidate for chancellor (in) as the election winner feel (in) may, whose party was indeed elected by only 19 percent of all eligible German!
focus was the sign of real political changes are not as good as it has been a long time. The Grand Coalition had excelled for four years alternately hostile citizens by doing nothing or by decisions. Pretty much everyone in the country is likely to have a completely different policy desired. Unfortunately, it is not able to explain to the people in the country that they had had with her voice this time a realistic chance to actually do something about it. And so the politics are, unfortunately, once again stayed at home rather than to choose the existing alternatives, and thus have made sure that everything remains the same.
In one way or another small party, it is certainly more advantageous that it was able to knock out the weakness of the major parties to profit. More gratifying as the right-wing parties do not become stronger, even the Christian Fundamentalists are not, fortunately for our country strengthened significantly, and spiritualist spinners who want to solve all the problems of the world through collective meditation or yogic flying is obviously no room in this country. This shows that the Germans are at least able to recognize that there is nothing to replace existing political nonsense by even more stupid.
is a pity, however it comes to the disappointing results of the Pirate Party. 845 904 or 2.0 percent of the vote, although a nice respect for success, which carried the party from the state to sixth place in favor of the voters (if the CDU / CSU once as a Party included). That is more than the Greens have achieved in their first parliamentary election in 1980. But of course nothing is won! While the indications were that at least a significant proportion of the population wants it can no longer offer longer, though still curtailed personal freedoms and totalitarian governmental bodies such as censorship and widespread video surveillance to be created.
But the masses can be mobilized so that apparently still does not. The only uncompromising defender of civil rights to be enough in today's Germany appeared to not even for the 5-percent hurdle. Our country is in this respect, unfortunately, a sad Picture. And trust of all that the well-known not just for the enforcement of incontrovertible ideals FDP is for example in regard to the proposed Internet censorship to their campaign promises, can surely not be the last word, after the same party just has thrown in Saxony in order to participation in government all liberal concerns about more government control measures on board.
So where controls Germany after the election? Changes in economic policy will probably be inevitable, and for all their love to the welfare state seems to me the skills to be better represented in this area in the new government - subject taken in the still to personnel decisions. Foreign policy is likely to change rather little, except that (like some prankster recently said), a possible foreign minister Guido Westerwelle even encourage Liechtenstein could invade us. For international assertiveness he might in any case are as little as a Karl-Theodor Freiherr von Guttenberg and. This part should therefore continue to remain a top priority.
But if the boss is busy elsewhere, probably in domestic politics can not be expected to be significant changes. As the saying goes that again so beautiful? "When the cat out of the house, the mice on the table. "If Chancellor Merkel to continue relying on the so-called expertise of her cabinet, will our country remain more embarrassing and anti-democratic it alone in the house Schäuble and especially from the home of the Leyen probably not spared. I greatly fear that will change, especially in these points by the future government of the FDP nothing.
The Home Office, which should be so well-cast as little, is so recently been a wish list for the time transpired after the elections, the numerous other area-wide surveillance contains. In this respect, would have only a resounding Electoral success of the Pirate Party can make a difference. And while at least 5 percent so that ultimately no one would come by at their main concern. In this case, I regret it because after the election not only no longer black and yellow, but even more for a grand coalition served.
Well, maybe next time - if the next time even still enough freedom is left to their conservation worth fighting for. And enough freedom to fight this fight at all, can be cashed without it because right from the authorities of an alleged suspicion of terrorism or other potential atrocities. In view the preservation of civil rights such as freedom of speech and the right to free development of personality goes against our country in any case difficult times. But we Germans take it himself to blame. Because we had a choice - but we have not used it!
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