Erste Hochrechnungen sehen eine absolute Mehrheit für CDU und FDP in Hessen - ein Traumergebnis! So fängt das Wahljahr gut an …
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It seems as if CDU and FDP reached an absolute majority in Hesse - a great start into the election year …
Short summary of last year`s events in Hesse and more on the election year 2009 at Spiegel online:
“Germany`s super elections year - Political Landscape in Flux ahead of 2009 Votes” by Charles Hawley, 01/15/2009
Excerpt:
In early 2008, voters split evenly between the CDU and the SPD, while at the same time giving the FDP, the Greens and the Left Party all enough votes to take seats in the state parliament.
The result was a year of political stalemate. Neither the SPD nor the CDU showed much interest in a “grand coalition” pairing the two parties, the CDU result wasn’t strong enough to form a government with the FDP, and the Greens elected not to join forces with the conservative camp. And of particular note, SPD efforts to form a government with the Greens using support from the Left Party — viewed widely with suspicion due to the party’s roots leading back to the East German communists — crumbled amid bitter infighting. It was a collapse that cost Hesse SPD leader Andrea Ypsilanti her political future and resulted in a call for new elections.