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...will lose. A poll by Election Research Group confirmed that the new leftist alliance - Linkspartei.pds, a coalition of disgruntled left-wingers and eastern German reformed communists - is polling 12% nationally. It's also the strongest party in the east, at 34%. The conservative cdu and its sister party, the csu, are running at 44% nationally, compared to 24% for the ruling spd. If the cdu does win, the strength of Linkspartei.pds in the east could make the party's majority so slim that it's forced into a coalition with the spd. The result: political stalemate. "It could be that...
...Socialists have been confused and silent, even as Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin weathered a summer of union discontent over pension and unemployment reforms. Only in Germany is the opposition enjoying any success, but even there the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU), are seen as the lesser of evils. Why can't opposition parties get any traction? Call it the revenge of the Third Way. Back in the late 1990s, leaders like Blair and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder sold a pragmatic blend of fiscal realism and social justice, dubbed...
Radicals have dominated the CSU for the past three years. Many only take one or two classes in order to devote themselves fully to activism. Hard leftists, they ally themselves with many of Concordia’s large Middle-Eastern community on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, making the issue dominate student political life. Widespread apathy has also allowed extremists to flourish in the CSU. The executive that oversaw the Netanyahu riot was elected with less than 7 percent of the vote. But when campaigning, even they had pledged to tone down the extremism of their predecessors...
After being accused of distributing pamphlets with application forms to the Israeli Army, Hillel, the only Jewish student club on campus, was banned by the CSU in an emergency midnight meeting with not even half of council present. Due process, guaranteed in the CSU’s own constitution was waved aside. One doesn’t have to be a supporter of Ariel Sharon to see the injustice in such a decision...
Fortunately, Hillel has recently been reinstated (although its funding is still up in the air). Next year’s CSU was elected on a platform of “students first, activism second”. This new executive, called “Evolution not Revolution,” won by a landslide with one of the highest turnouts in Concordia’s history. And that’s the thing: The vast majority of students do not agree with the CSU’s recent extremism. Even though many, including myself, are strongly opposed to certain Israeli policies...