{"id":38534,"date":"2013-09-23T06:06:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38534"},"modified":"2013-09-22T19:42:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T00:42:56","slug":"das-macht-drei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38534","title":{"rendered":"Das Macht Drei<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, Australia tossed aside its Labour government and installed a conservative one.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, voters in Norway followed suit, installing a center-right government.<\/p>\n

And over the weekend, German voters defied polls that pointed toward a slim win for Angela Merkel’s center-right Christliche-Demokratische Union <\/em>(Christian Democrat Party, or CDU), giving the CDU what exit polls show may well be an absolute majority<\/a> in the German\u00a0Bundestag\u00a0<\/em>(Parliament):<\/p>\n

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An early projection by the state broadcaster ARD on Sunday evening showed Mrs Merkel\u2019s Christian Democrat party (CDU) winning 301 seats in the 598-seat Bundestag, enough to form a government without a coalition partner. Later projections suggested, however, that she could fall just short of an absolute majority.<\/p>\n

Exit polls and early results put the CDU on 42.5 per cent of the vote, a lead of 17 points over the main opposition.<\/p>\n

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It had been expected that Mrs Merkel would be forced into a \u201cgrand coalition\u201d with her main socialist opponents, the Social Democrats. The early results suggested that she might avoid this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We’ll see.<\/p>\n

I try not to take too much comfort in historical parallels – but in the late seventies, you saw a similar wave of countries whose voters woke up to the fact that the economic system couldn’t be sustained under the liberal status quo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, Australia tossed aside its Labour government and installed a conservative one. Two weeks ago, voters in Norway followed suit, installing a center-right government. And over the weekend, German voters defied polls that pointed toward a slim win for Angela Merkel’s center-right Christliche-Demokratische Union (Christian Democrat Party, or CDU), giving the CDU what exit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38537,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38534\/revisions\/38537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}