Germany could hold new elections if Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union fails to form a stable coalition government:
The breakdown of the coalition talks last weekend has done more than dent Ms. Merkel's seeming invulnerability and raise the prospect of new elections, analysts say. Although the Social Democrats agreed on Friday to meet with the chancellor's party next week — raising hopes for, if not a coalition, then a tolerated minority government — the current situation may well signal the breakdown of Germany's postwar tradition of consensus and the dawn of a messy and potentially unnerving politics.
"The distinctive political tradition of the Federal Republic of Germany is change through consensus," said Timothy Garton Ash, a professor of European studies at the University of Oxford. That was what was at stake, he said. "It hasn't worked so far this time."
The leader of the Social Democrats has said that the party's members would have to vote on joining a coalition led by Merkel.
Also at DW (alternate), BBC, The Hill, and NYT (11/20 editorial).
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 25 2017, @02:34PM (3 children)
IF you get such people, and they're for real, you just need to plainly inform them of a couple rules that will be enforced. They flaunt your laws and follow their own, they get sent back. They try to clone their country within yours, they get sent back. Those who are not fake, will behave; those doing damage, get cast out.
If they really ran from what they've had out there, why they want to bring it with them?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by leftover on Saturday November 25 2017, @03:52PM (1 child)
Why bring it with them? Because it is what they know.
Bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 25 2017, @04:11PM
So they need to learn something else.
Preferably without suicide bombers and IED's.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 25 2017, @05:22PM
Why bring it with them? Just like the pilgrims, they want to be in a place where they can be *their* type of assholes.