{"id":178603,"date":"2018-10-16T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/16\/merkels-bavarian-ally-suffers-historic-loss-in-state-vote\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T23:09:00","slug":"merkels-bavarian-ally-suffers-historic-loss-in-state-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/16\/merkels-bavarian-ally-suffers-historic-loss-in-state-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel\u2019s Bavarian ally suffers historic loss in state vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Merkel’s allies in the German state of Alabama<\/strike> Bavaria just got their heads handed to them in recent state elections<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Bavaria\u2019s Christian Social Union, the sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s Christian Democratic Union, suffered a historic loss in Germany\u2019s wealthiest state, losing the majority it has held for much of the postwar period. Despite the ninth consecutive year of economic growth and record employment levels, the party lost votes to two rising parties on the left and right, the Greens and the Alternative for Germany.<\/span>

<\/span>The CSU, led by controversial Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, won 37.2 percent of the votes, according to preliminary results. It was the party\u2019s lowest rating since 1950. The CSU was expected to win 34 percent in the latest opinion polls surveys earlier this month. In 2013, it won 47.7 percent of the votes, but still won the majority in the state\u2019s legislature due to a complicated system of awarding seats.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You will notice that the CSU dropped by about 10%, or about \u00bc of its previous vote totals, and the SPD lost about 12%, over \u00bd of its votes.<\/p>\n

Establishment parties (the CSU\/CDU) is taking it on the chin<\/p>\n

Establishment parties that stand for nothing (the SPD), like what now passes for the “Center-Left” in Europe, are being destroyed.<\/p>\n

I’m just hoping that the Greens and the Left Party, and not the neo-Fascist AFD end up on top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merkel’s allies in the German state of Alabama Bavaria just got their heads handed to them in recent state elections: Bavaria\u2019s Christian Social Union, the sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s Christian Democratic Union, suffered a historic loss in Germany\u2019s wealthiest state, losing the majority it has held for much of the postwar period. Despite …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,371,588],"class_list":["post-178603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-europe","tag-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}