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Old 11-20-2016, 06:15 AM
 
Location: Germany
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Angela Merkel to run for fourth term
Angela Merkel to run for fourth term as German chancellor, CDU party sources say | The Independent

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Old 11-20-2016, 06:19 AM
 
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I dont think even her party would vote for her. She will get single digit votes. How does the German election system works? Is it like ours with electoral colleges or the American Idol type popular vote that the liberals here are aggresively pushing?
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Old 11-20-2016, 06:27 AM
 
Location: Germany
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Mixed-member proportional representation is a hybrid two-tier voting system. MMP was originally used to elect representatives to the German Bundestag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-...representation
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Old 11-20-2016, 06:42 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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Bottom line, the people do not vote for chancellor in Germany.

The people cast 2 votes, Bundestag and party. The Bundestag elects the chancellor by secret ballot.

Understanding Germany's elections - Al Jazeera English
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Old 11-20-2016, 06:44 AM
 
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Didn't she just barely pull it off last time? I can't imagine that she is more popular now.

I suppose the opposition could run someone incompetent. There is some examples of that happening.
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Old 11-20-2016, 07:01 AM
 
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Germany, oddly, might find itself a liberal island in a reactionary sea. Poland, Austria, Holland, Hungary, even France have right-wing parties that are in power or nearly in power. I think Merkel will be re-elected because the right has nowhere else to go in Germany. The Alternative for Germany is not in the same league as the National Front, Law and Justice, Freedom Party, etc.

She might be re-elected in reaction to Trump. Germans might feel they need her centrist and steadying influence to moderate America's new role on the world stage. Whatever that turns out to be.

On the other hand, if America indicates it truly is devaluing NATO and cozying up to Russia, it might drive Germany into close cooperation with her near neighbors: the Baltics, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria and Hungary. As these are become more rightist, it might force Germany that way, too.
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Old 11-20-2016, 07:06 AM
 
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What a very interesting election process Germany has.

So who is considered the top contender at this point? I imagine there must be some sort of right wing, conservative, nationalist momentum going.
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Old 11-20-2016, 07:17 AM
 
Location: Austin
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If she wins again, Trump will not have much of a relationship with Merkel, thus minimal concern for Germany. The Brits will "go to the front of the line" and Germany to the back. Merkel's an idiot.
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Old 11-20-2016, 07:17 AM
 
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Angela Merkel has committed terrorists acts against the German
people by selling germany out to the globalist and flooding the
country with Radical Islamist.

She needs to be arrested and put on trial for Treason.

The EU is crumbling and she will fall .

Justice will be served.
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