So there's a meeting slated for tomorrow in Thuringia....between the Linke Party former Premier-President of the state, the Greens, the SPD, and the CDU Party remaining 'chiefs' (if you remember....their former boss quit two weeks ago).
The topic? What MDR (the regional public TV folks) says....is that Ramelow is going to lay out a number of concessions, to get the regional CDU Party to agree to support him....thus bringing him back to the Premier President job, halt the discussed second election for the state, and somehow bring stability back to the region.
The problems? You basically have three key issues:
1. The national CDU folks have said absolutely no support for the Linke Party in this type of scenario. On the regional level....based on various reports of the past month, I'd say that a third of all CDU-voters would be open to something but the Linke Party would really have to back down drastically on how this government would function.
2. Serious chatter says that the CDU might be willing to vote for this relationship....if the Premier-President is a SPD or Green Party person. The problem with this? Both won with less than 8-percent of the national vote. So if you got all negative about the FDP guy taking charge....same thing will occur again.
3. Finally, this is just me saying this.....but a fair number of Linke voters aren't exactly in favor of backing down much. I would guess half of them don't agree with this strategy.
At the heart of this? I think folks are worried over a second election and where this might lead onto. Ought to be a real interesting week.
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