[GPSCC-chat] Fw: Greens win BIG, very BIG in So.Germany!

[Gerry Gras]

According to a friend in Germany, if you get less than 5%,
you don't get seats in parliament, and coalitions require
a majority of seats.  So the Greens and SPD will be enough
in Baden Wuertemberg.  With the Greens in the lead.  Which
will be a historical first.

And if I understand correctly, the SPD / Greens will
probably govern in Rheinland-Pfalz.

Gerry


Spencer Graves wrote:
>    According to the link below, "The results gave the Greens 24.2% and
> their Social Democrat allies 23.1%, with Mrs Merkel's party on 39% and
> its Free Democrat (FDP) allies on 5.3%." Thus, the Greens + Social
> Democrats got 47.3% (not 57.3%), with the Greens the senior partner by
> 1.1 percentage points vs. 44.3% for the Christian Democratic Union +
> FDP. The Greens still appear set to lead the government in the German
> state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, but that's not certain. Other parties
> control 8.6% of the vote. If the CDU+FDP coalition can capture 6 of the
> 8.6 percentage points of other parties, they will continue to govern.
> The Greens + Social Democrats need 2.8 of the 8.6 to actually form the
> next government. I assume that it will be easier for the Greens to get
> 2.8% than it will be for the CDU to get 6%, but that's not certain; if
> the latter were likely, I think the election results would likely have
> been written differently. (The Greens were also set to gain in elections
> in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, but I have not seen any results yet.)
>
>
> Spencer
>
>
> On 3/28/2011 10:35 AM, Caroline Yacoub wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Forwarded Message ----
>> From: shane que hee<squehee at ucla.edu>
>> Sent: Sun, March 27, 2011 8:58:09 PM
>> Subject: Greens win BIG, very BIG in So.Germany!
>>
>>
>> From: Bob Marsh<bob at marsh.name>
>>> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:16:28 -0700
>>> Subject: Greens win BIG, very BIG in So.Germany!
>>>
>>>
>>> In the state of Baden-Wurttemberg in Southern Germany (home to 11M people) the
>>> Greens got enough votes to become the lead party in a potential coalition with
>>> the Social Democrats (SDP). The Greens and SDP combined received 57.3% of the
>>> votes and the Greens got 1% more votes than the SDP, an amazing result!
>>>
>>> This is what can happen when states adopt proportional representation.
>>>
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12876083
>>>
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