Now the election is over—finally and the politicians can return back to normality with less demeanour.
The outcome is pretty funny as the CDU seems to have managed their voters to the “correct” behaviour: voting with their first vote for the CDU man and with the second one for FDP. This way CDU even gets one additional excess mandate. The electors of SPD havn't voted for CDU with their second vote as much as required apparently (CDU did need more than 41000 votes not to get the additional excess mandate.
Still SPD is the largest party in the new parliament even if the fraction of CDU and CSU combined now has 4 seats more.
So they'll still keep their point of views whom to become (or remain) chancellor… Actually I don't care too much (OK, I don't want a chancellor who looks like starting to cry 75 % of the time very much) as long as they don't take too long with the negotiation and form a government which has a chance to hold for 4 years.
In Holland it's very usual that the largest party in a coalition government brings in the government head (prime minister).
And that's the problem here in Germany. Anywhere, but in the parliamental fraction, CDU and CSU act as separate parties. So now the discussion is, whether the biggest party or the biggest fraction will nominate the chancellor. I don't think the results have ever been so narrow for the CDU/CSU fraction compared to SPD to arouse this...
Ah, right. I have to admit that CDU/CSU is one party, but that's probably me looking as a foreigner.
Hmm, why do I now have future visions of an indecisive government, political betrayal and grandstand-isms.