blnymph
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ORIGINAL: Greta75 I think THIS is Precisely why Merkel is in big trouble: Immediately after the release of exit polls, the deputy party leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), junior partners in a "grand coalition" with Ms Merkel's conservatives for the last four years, said her party would now go into opposition. "For us, the grand coalition ends today," Manuela Schwesig told local media. "For us it's clear that we'll go into opposition as demanded by the voter." Without the SPD, MS Merkel's only straightforward path to a majority in Parliament would be a three-way tie-up with the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) and the Greens, known as a "Jamaica" coalition because the black, yellow and green colours of the three parties match the Jamaican flag. Such an arrangement is untested at the national level in Germany and widely seen as inherently unstable. German election: Angela Merkel hangs on to power but forced to form coalition after losing support to far-right So if their old allies who is 2nd place will now join forces with AFD. Good luck on Merkel having to work with the other fourth and fifth place parties. I told you before what the coalition options for a Merkel government are. Obviously you have no clue what that means (btw neither has abc Australia; coalition governments are NORMAL here, usually with 2 parties - counting CDU/CSU as one, now, a bit more negotiating to do, with 3). It is not at all big trouble, but standard procedure after every election since 1948. Not necessarily unstable, just new. Those parties opposing the ruling government do not necessarily cooperate. There is nothing like a "shadow" whatever. For the SPD and Linke it is next to impossible to cooperate with neofascists. No other party will "join forces" with the AfD. In this respect they are, and will be, politically irrelevant for the next 4 years.
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