A divided Germany, once again?

NotQuiteSane · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:04 am Post subject: A divided Germany, once again?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/world/europe/bavaria-political-shifts-could-have-wide-effects.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&
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dmitchell · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:08 am Post subject:

Secession is always a good idea.
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sugar · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:08 am Post subject:

Wait. Explain what's happening in terms I can understand. Which one is the Obama, and which one is the one that everyone calls a witch?
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BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1488 Location: U.S.A.

Bavaria is tired of the rest of Germany, especially energyman76b and his no-sense-of-humor, anally retentive friends, leeching off them, not to mention the PIIGS.
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sugar · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:27 am Post subject:

We've had 5 elections under MMP so far. There seems to be a trend, in that , generally, smaller parties that find favour and get over the 5% threshold tend (or get an MP into government) to get beaten back down in the following election. It's almost as if the public tend to feel as if the small parties have too much power in government, or internal small party politics tend to rip the party apart on the inside.

Is this something that's seen in Germany?
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Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

Kinda. We have, however, not many small parties that get over the 5% threshhold. For years there have been CDU (conservatives), SPD (labour), FDP (liberals), Die Grünen (greens) and lately Die Linke (left wing). Die Grünen have been part of the parliament since the late 80s or early 90s, the other parties nearly since after WWII (not sure about the FDP, might have joined in later) and Die Linken came even later (naturally, since they were founded in 2007). Other than these 5, no other party has been in parliament as far as I can remember. Die Piratepartei (Pirate party) might make it into the Bundestag next year - we'll see what happens then. Probably the latter, i.e. that the party will be ripped apart from the inside.
But that's got nothing to do with the secession of Bavaria.
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genstorm · Advocate Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 2241 Location: Austria

What about a new Novemberrevolution in Bavaria? :lol:

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energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2022 Location: Germany

Bavaria can always leave - after they paid back the trillions they got in help until the middle of the 80s. With interest.
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mdeininger · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:43 am Post subject: