So after last election is always before the next election?!
Hello everybody,
Max Power here with some stuff I'm having in mind these days. In this post I will give you some little understanding what is all that smoke about that political campaigns which seem to paralyze Berlin and Tokyo.
My home country Germany had their general elections 2 weeks ago, and just a day after that, the prime minister of my host country Japan announced to dissolve the parliament and have snap election October 22nd.
The outcome of the German election wasn't really surprising, PM Angela Merkel's party CDU (christian-conservatives) won the majority even after a loss of about 10 % of votes compared to the last election 4 years ago. And the (more than right wing) AfD entered the German parliament (Bundestag) for the very first time, it's time to welcome the Nazis back on the political stage.
But somehow Germany still seems to be the anchor in that political storms that sweep over the western world. However, former and next PM Merkel will need to form a strong coalition, without former partner SPD (social-democrats), who got beaten up to the bones and scored their worst result since the end up WW II. Well, as the German say... Who goes to bed with Angela Merkel can only lose.
Assumingly now she will coalise with the FDP (the Liberal-Democrats, but only in a -support the upper 10% free-market- way) and the Green Party, which both aren't so keen on working with each other.
The FDP should know better, they were in bed with Merkel from 2009-2013 and after this catastrophe they were kicked out of the German parliament for the very first time. But voters are usually not the smartest and tend to forget pretty soon. 4 years later they are back like a phoenix from the ashes, thanks to their poster-boy wanna-be chairman.
And the Greens? Trying to be more conservative than the conservatives. They have been waiting to get back in power for 12 years, therefore they seem to have no problems to throw their principles overboard. I'm wondering how much they will deny themselves to accommodate their future partners in crime.
Preaching water and drinking wine. Power corrupts and so far every anti-establishment movement has morphed into another cog in the big wheel of check and balances as soon as they got the chance to be part of it.
Change? Yes, but not if it effects themselves.
It might take weeks or even months until coalition talks will be over and and a new government will start it's work, until that time you can't expect much from Germany on taking on their role most countries in the EU want it to play. Let's hope we won't see too much stagnation.
However nobody seems to be interested in voting again though...
Meanwhile Japan's PM Shinzo Abe is just seizing the moment, after polling very bad early summer.
I'm gonna put the situation in Japan into another post which I will bring up tomorrow so this won't be too long of a read...
Thank you for reading and stay tuned Steemians
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