Sunday, November 28, 2021

The Odds on Survival For the New SPD-Green-FDP Government?

 The next federal election is figured to be September of 2025.

Could it be earlier?  Yes.  You would require a falling-out of the SPD-Green-FDP government. 

Odds on this?  In a normal situation over the past fifty years....most people would generally put low odds (less than a 5-percent chance)..

In this mess....I'd actually put the odds way up to around 50-percent that a collapse will occur.  The chief problem is the relationship between the FDP and Greens.

Will Scholz (as Chancellor) be worried over this?  I would imagine something will pop-up every couple of months to remind him how fragile things are.

Does any of this benefit the CDU-CSU?  No.  For each month that the FDP demonstrates itself....it's adding a point that might have gone to the CDU-CSU.  In eighteen months....the FDP might well be capable of getting a quarter of the normal CDU-CSU voters to move their votes to the FDP.

So don't be shocked if a falling out does occur.  

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