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mgc1961

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Mon Mar-28-11 08:58 AM
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Greens Score Big in Key German State

The Fukushima disaster has had, and will have, many consequences around the world. One of the more unlikely, however, appears to be the results of Sunday's election in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, where skepticism about nuclear power helped propel the Green Party to a historic victory over Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

The Greens doubled their share of the vote to 24.2 percent, according to preliminary results released by the state electoral commission. They are now likely to govern the state in a coalition with the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), which secured 23.1 percent of the vote, down 2 percent from the last election in 2006. In what would be a first for Germany, the Greens, as the senior partner in the coalition, will likely appoint the state governor.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,753503,00.html.

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xchrom

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Mon Mar-28-11 09:02 AM
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1. ...

:applause:

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enum

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Tue Mar-29-11 02:59 AM
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2. South west of Germany's going green

Let us give them a chance to realize political responsibility
in a state which was ruled some 60 years by christian
conservatives. It will be difficult enough to push through
withdrawal from nuclear energy as well as the Stuttgart21
topic which divides the capitol of Baden-Württemberg since the
start of the construction works on the planned underground
train station. We will see what the Green Party really can
change and what not ..

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DissedByBush

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Sun Apr-03-11 09:35 AM
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3. And Green/Red was oh so effective a while back

The Germans are still reeling from that.

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