Germany: Angela Merkel's New Cabinet
... “growing pains.” In January 2013, the Pirates got just two percent of the vote in the Lower Saxony elections [4] , with their Germany-wide rating at a meager three percent in 2013 [5] . All other participating parties that failed to get to the Bundestag gained less than two percent of the vote. The populist Euroskeptic Aletrnative for Germany Party was set up in February 2013, and in August-September of te same year skyrocketed in popularity, funally gaining 4.7 percent of the vote. As expected, the CDU/CSU alliance received the bulk of the votes, i.e. 41.5 percent, lacking just five ...
23.09.2013
