Fairly negative end for SPD running the state gov't currently.
CDU: 30.5-percent
SPD: 27-percent (about 9 points down from last election....lot of folks converted to AfD)
Greens: 7.5-percent
AfD: 20-percent (12 points up over past election)
Linke Party: 4.5-percent (might find some votes to make up...but seems like they will not get seats)
Coalition? Probably CDU-SPD. Probably only 4 parties to get seats.
Five discussion items that oddly came up in this election? First....agenda to prohibit cellphones in schools. Second, starting 'aid' to keep alive pubs in small villages (state-aid)....if there is only one left. Third, some effort to prohibit German Army recruitment. Fourth, creation of citizen-groups....to tell the state assembly folks what regular people think about certain policies (mostly because the state politicians seem unlikely to grasp what people think). Fifth, apartments that have been long empty (by landlord's strategy)....to be taken away and run by the local gov't....paying the guy his rental income.
I tried to make sense out of the apartment thing. My German wife is particular about who rents the two apartments, and she would be hard-ass about this....stalling a rental unit for six months if necessary.
I should note....it was also pushed....if you were a migrant kid and failing to achieve in school....there was a political agenda pushed....where the kid would be put into a special school where only his language was to be used. Now....where he was at 18/19 years old....I have no idea. Seems like this type of agenda....made little sense if the kid was staying in Germany.
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