Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Saxony-Anhalt, comes back to the CDU and Merkel Voters punish Liberals

BERLIN - The non-involvement in the West against Gaddafi and the conversion to no to nuclear power after the tragedy of Japanese do not save Angela Merkel and Guido Westerwelle from a clear election defeat. Consultations in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, one of the poorest of the 16 states (Bundeslaender) of the Federal Republic of Germany, the chancellor and his deputy, the Liberal leader and Foreign Minister, raking in a heavy failure.

While all three are fine components of the left, the SPD governs in Magdeburg (state capital) together with the CDU, the Linke (left radical opposition) remains the second party of Saxony-Anhalt, and the Greens entering Parliament doubling consents. According to initial projections, the CDU's Angela Merkel clearly lost 3.7 points, remains the leading political force of the land but drops to an alarming 32.5 percent.

His leadership of state government is saved from its current coalition partner local, the SPD (the opposition at the national level) that increases to 21.5 percent and then save the most outgoing. The Linke, the radical left, former Joint dissidents left the SPD and the heirs of the SED, the communist party that ruled East Germany, remains strong at 23.5, the second local force.

The Greens - even the wave of emotion for the tragedy Atomic - double the consensus flying at 6.5 percent, a record in the East German, and enter the Parliament of Magdeburg. Heavy, at least 2.7 percent, the loss of liberal Westerwelle, the politician turned in no more participation in the mission to Libya.

To be recorded, finally, the dismal failure of the neo-Nazi NPD, which had led to a lot of money with an aggressive campaign against foreigners and against the European Union, and stand at 4.5 percent, thus clearly below the threshold of a quorum 5 percent. The vote on the background of the two global emergencies Libya and Japan is a slap to Angela Merkel.

A slap that promises ill for the elections next Sunday in two other states, ie the rich Baden-Wuerttemberg (southwest) Democratic bastion where, however, has always been the growing anti-nuclear and environmental protest, and the Rhineland-Palatinate. The political weakness on the domestic front complicates the game to the Chancellor in his last few hours of difficult confrontation with the United States, United Kingdom, France and other EU and NATO allies and partners, annoyed by the German non-participation and full of action against Gaddafi suspicion of a resurgent German appeasement, appeasement towards the Libyan case in Russia and China with which Berlin has sided with the United Nations Convention on the Libyan case.

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