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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 jmorris on Saturday November 25 2017, @07:58PM
And to quote the sign above Mars University (Futurama) "Knowledge Brings Fear" In this case, to understand the problem Islam presents to Western Civilization is to fear allowing this problem to fester. Nothing, absolutely nothing, good is going to come from Mad Merkel's open border policy. And nothing good is going to come from the U.S. importing millions of them either. They are incompatible with us, one must destroy the other if they are allowed to remain.