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Page 1 — What now?

Page 2 — a minority government strengns democracy

Page 3 — GroKo is better than your reputation

On a page reading a reelection no one must be afraid

All responsible parties are stumped for Jamaica: Angela Merkel and or CDU and CSU politicians try to persuade SPD to a new grand Coalition (option 3). But SPD seems determined to resist this temptation. The Greens hope that FDP is considering it again, but with ir boss Christian Lindner y also bite on granite. No one's moving.

But how is it going to go on now? A minority government (option 2) is unrealistic in Germany. It would also mean that SPD or FDP would have to tolerate a government led by Merkel – without direct influence from a coalition treaty. Why would you do that? Therefore, re is only one way out: reelection.

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To demand from SPD that it must assume state-political responsibility in procedural situation and throw its rejection of anor GroKo over pile is too simple. The SPD has been carrying this responsibility for almost 20 years. She paid bitterly for it.

None of top politicians sees a reelection as a good option. They all have to fear furr loss of votes, no one can reckon that his party will emerge as a radiant winner.

Neverless, you will probably have no choice but to ask voters to vote again in a few months at latest. Why not same?

Wage for willingness to compromise

Seven parties are now sitting in Bundestag. This makes coalition negotiations difficult, more difficult than ever before in history of Federal Republic. And that will probably not change for foreseeable future.

This new reality means that all parties must be more compromised, even more open to coalitions that span traditional right-left spectrum. The FDP has just failed to do this.

But new reality must also be accepted by electorate. And here is biggest advantage of a re-election.

The FDP has abandoned exploratory talks for fear of losing ir credibility to ir constituents and punished in next election. A reelection, however, was less about political content than about how to make policy in Germany in future: are y rewarding voters ' willingness to compromise, as y have shown in exploratory talks, especially Greens and CSU, to a lesser extent FDP? Or do you value it as a betrayal of your own ideals?

Voters now know what y are

After a month of black-yellow-green haggling, voters now know not only where parties and ir top staff are in content. But – and this is much more important – what y would be willing to give up for opportunity to govern and for which y are in any case standing and fighting.

They know that Greens would enter into a coalition in which phasing out of coal is in Treaty, but not as y called for in election campaign. You know that FDP will only enter into a coalition in which SOLI will be completely abolished – and can ask mselves: do I want a party to represent me, which (not only but also) breaks exploratory talks for this reason?

In CDU, voters already know what y are getting: Merkel has always stood for flexible governance. Horst Seehofer and his CSU, in spite of all atre thunder, basically also.

The SPD, in turn, would have chance to present itself as a new force of social justice in a reelection. It could n show how far she is prepared to make a difference – in negotiations for anor great coalition, which party leader Martin Schulz does not exclude in this case.

Seen in this way, no one has to fear a reelection.

A. Schrader

Date Of Update: 23 November 2017, 12:02