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   Kees van der Leun (sustainable2050@mastodon.energy)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 03:34:23 JST Kees van der Leun

   German polls closed. Forecast has far-right AfD, pushed by Musk, slightly below 20%. Not a bad as it could've been.
   FDP and BSW on the edge of the electoral threshold.

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     Kees van der Leun (sustainable2050@mastodon.energy)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 03:34:23 JST Kees van der Leun

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     Young voters (18-24) in Germany gave the Linke (27%) and AfD (21%) a boost. The former is against further military support for Ukraine ("negotiations, diplomacy"), the latter is Russia-friendly. A worrying development.

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     Kees van der Leun (sustainable2050@mastodon.energy)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 07:13:27 JST Kees van der Leun

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     By now, it seems clear that Lindner's FDP has suffered a massive defeat and won't make it into parliament anymore (4.5%). The BSW (Sahra Wagenknecht) is still clinging on to 4.9-5.0% in the forecasts; she is against further military support for Ukraine like the Linke from which she split off.

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     Kees van der Leun (sustainable2050@mastodon.energy)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 07:13:27 JST Kees van der Leun

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     In the end, it looks like BSW won't make it into parliament either. This means that SPD and CDU could build a majority coalition together. Won't be easy, though.

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     Kees van der Leun (sustainable2050@mastodon.energy)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 07:13:28 JST Kees van der Leun

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     As @RonRevog points out, the coalition parties lost a total of 18.4% of the vote, of which CDU/CSU only managed to pick up a quarter, to achieve its second worst result in history.
     Not exactly a landslide.

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     Kees van der Leun (sustainable2050@mastodon.energy)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 07:13:29 JST Kees van der Leun

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     85% of German voters today view their country as (rather) poorly prepared for the future: percentage sharply up in recent years.

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     Monika (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 07:15:05 JST Monika

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     @Sustainable2050 For different reasons though. Sahra Wagenknecht loves Putin and is financed by him. Die Linke has a long history of pacifism.