... single-handedly form a government in the event of victory, and in the coalition negotiations, the stake on stability may already play against the party. Since 2013, the “grand coalition” of the CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) has been in power. In the absence of traditional competition, the “crisis of the centre” proved fatal for the Social Democrats, who ceased to be associated with the working class and the centre-left agenda and lost their voters.
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The reasons to vote for right-wing AfD are the problems, not the AfD itself.
On one hand, the elections to the Bundestag on September 24 2017 in Germany were somewhat boring. The programmes of the parties in charge and designated parties, CDU and SPD, look similar. Too gibberish and far from facts were the appearances of Martin Schulz, designated candidate for chancellor of the social SPD. Too “mum-like” and an encumbrance to people the statements of Angela Merkel. Most other parties were ...
... absolute majority in the Parliament they lacked just a few seats (however, even if they had these seats, their government wouldn't get a reliable and guaranteed parliamentary support to carry out the required reforms), LDP did not pass to the Bundestag and SPD and the Greens that received quite moderate 34.1 per cent, initially rejected any coalition with the CDU and CSU pointing out at a number of irreconcilable differences with their political opponents. For example, during the TV debates of 2 September ...