Word: bundestag
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...Social Democrats did suffer the worst defeat since 1961, but then they had been in power for 13 long years, and some decline in influence was to be expected Moreover, the small liberal Free Democratic Party recoiled from its calamitous showings in recent local elections and returned to the Bundestag with a respectable 6.9 percent of the vote. Finally the four-year-old Greens barely made it into the Bundestag for the first time with 5.9. percent of the vote...
Finally the Greens achieved their gains from the young and unemployed, the turned-off and disappointed, and strong-minded Protestants and Catholics To have the Greens in the Bundestag may be better than to have them demonstrating in the streets, probably they will be in both places anyway However, anyone seeing Petta Kelly, one of the Greens "non-leader" leaders on CBS's "60 Minutes" several weeks ago may well wonder about the direction of this party. Her fascinating blend of inspired idealism and personal charisma, anti-American venom and silence about the Soviet Union, adept fabrication of vivid political...
...West Germany entered the final, decisive weeks before its March 6 national elections, each of those disparate rallies had its own significance. At stake was control of the 519-seat Bundestag, a struggle dominated by the rivalry between Kohl's Christian Democrats and Vogel's Social Democrats. But for the first time, a powerful environmental and antinuclear movement, headed by the Greens, is threatening to take over the balance of electoral power in West Germany. That far from remote possibility would challenge the concept of nuclear deterrence within the NATO alliance, and would undermine a strategy that...
...Free Democratic Party, which precipitated the change in government last October by shifting its allegiance from Schmidt's Social Democrats to Kohl's Christian Democrats, is given 4%. Unless sentiments change, however, the Greens may win 5%, thereby breaking the barrier necessary for representation in the Bundestag. If that happens, the protest movement will be the first left-wing fringe party in the postwar period to have a say in West German government...
What both major parties fear specifically is that the Greens might oust the Free Democratic Party as the pivotal third force in the Bundestag. That will not matter if either Kohl's Christian Democratic/Christian Social Union alliance or Vogel's Social Democrats win a majority. But it becomes a critical issue if neither party has enough strength to form a government on its own. The conservatives are not likely, under any circumstances, to make common cause with the Greens. The Greens have signaled that they could support a Social Democratic minority government on some issues, but in return...