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ADENAUER'S COALITION: C.D.U (Christian Democrats) 145 FDP (Free Democrats) 51 DP (German Party) 20 216 AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT: SPD (Socialists) 130 FU (Bavarians and Pacifists) 18 BHE (Refugees) 3 KPD (Communists) 14 Splinter parties 21 186 Most of the opposition "splinter parties" will be massacred at the polls by the "5% rule," which invalidates all groups winning less than that much of the total vote. The Communists are no danger at all: this time they too may fail to get 5%. Unlike other European nations, West Germany has no big Communist Party, for the reality is too near...
Longing for Power. Also apparent was a shift from the center to the right of Konrad Adenauer's three-party coalition. The Free Democratic Party (FDP), strongly nationalist, picked up more support than any other party; its show of "strength, chiefly at the expense of Adenauer's own Christian Democrats, will probably ensure the nationalists a bigger say in German policy...