1. Impeachment for Macron?
Well....it goes this way....the left-party (NFP) did not get their candidate appointed as PM. Macron went to the right-party instead....even though NFP has more seats in the national assembly. So there is a impeachment action going on.
First step? At the assembly level....NFP has the votes to advance the impeachment. Second step coming up this week? NFP doesn't have the votes to carry it any further.
Big deal? Well....it's the drama that Macron arranged in having the election early, and likely to repeat again.
2. Thuringia state election results from yesterday:
AfD: 33 percent (prior to the election....AfD polled at 30-percent, so it was more than expected).
CDU: 24 percent.
SPD: 6 percent.
Greens: 3.2 percent (so they won't have any seats).
Linke: 13.1 percent
BSW: 16 percent.
In a majority of districts.....AfD won.
Forming a gov't coalition with AfD? Zero percent chance.
3. Saxony state election?
AfD: 30.6 percent (2nd place)
CDU: 31.9 percent (winner)
BSW: 11.8 percent
SPD: 7.3 percent
Linke: 4.5 percent (gets zero seats)
Greens: 5.1 percent
CDU forming a coalition? Well....with Greens, BSW an SPD....it'll just marginally work.
4. In the state of NRW (NW state of Germany).....after the Solingen knife episode (3 dead)....news media folks tried for several days to contact the 'head' of the deportation efforts of the state....nothing seemed to work.
Head? Green Party member...Josefine Paul.
This is drawing a fair amount of criticism....on how the deportations are marginally working at present.
5. I watched a NTV news item...discussing the ideas of bears in Germany. Pro-bear folks keep wanting to introduce bears back into the 'wilds' of Germany. It's just hard to sell the public on this concept.
6. I went to a fest in Wiesbaden yesterday. Cops on duty compared to the past? Probably double the 'old' number. Folks in attendance? Probably half the normal number. I'm not saying the knife assaults worry folks....but yeah, that feeling is there.
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