Word: jojo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian Democrats (an offshoot of Konrad Adenauer's West German C.D.U.) rolled up 25.4% of the vote. The Social Democrats took a beating (14.3% of the vote), trailing far behind the supernationalist right-wing Democrats (24.2%), under ex-Nazi Heinrich Schneider. The big surprise was that tubby little "Jojo" Hoffmann, the Francophile ex-Premier, cornered a solid 21.8% (and 13 seats in Parliament) for his Christian People's Party. Hoffmann's supporters, who favor continued economic collaboration between the Saar and France, cannily reminded middle-class Saarlanders that West German taxes might make a bigger hole...