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Schmidt's greatest electoral difficulty however will be to convince the FDP or Free Liberals to remain in the government coalition. As in past elections, neither the Social Democrats nor the Christian Democrats led by Helmut Kohl will be able to win a clear electoral majority. Consequently, the FDP which controls approximately 10 per cent of the vote will hold the balance of the elections...
...FDP itself has little electoral support, he said. Until more voters are registered, the FDP cannot hope to win a majority, and can safely be ignored by the established Southern leadership...
...moderate MDC coalition will insist that to charter the FDP group would be to commit political suicide in Mississippi, where the bulk of the political power is white. The coalition will point out that voters think of the FDP as radical (if not communist), and there would be little hope of organizing an effective YD club around an FDP core...
...FDP will insist, on the other hand, that whites who would not join the virtually all-Negro FDP group will not join the integrated MDC group either. And right now it is probably true that even the more moderate faction would fail to attract the kind of white support that provides eager campaign help...
However, given the political direction of the FDP, it doesnt seem likely that whites will ever agree to join it. Young Democrats organized around the bi-racial MDC coalition would provide at least the working beginnings of a new Democratic Party in Mississippi...