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28 januari 2008 00:01 |
Extreem-links grote winnaar Duitse deelstaatverkiezingen
In de cruciale deelstaatverkiezingen in Nedersaksen en Hesse is Die Linke de grote overwinnaar.
De traditionele partijen verliezen of stagneren. Die Linke wordt stilaan incontournable en zet zijn gestage groei voort.
Deze trend van verlinksing kan in heel Europa waargenomen worden, met de grote overwinning van de Socialistische Partij in Nederland en de Marxisten in Griekenland, en de communisten in Italië. Nu ook, opnieuw, in Duitsland.
Citaat:
The Left surges ahead in 2 west German states
Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) - A strong showing by The Left _ a fusion of eastern ex-communists and western left-wingers _ in two major state elections on Sunday solidified the young party's position on Germany's political scene.
The party surged into the state parliament in Lower Saxony, in the northwest, and projections showed it hovering around the 5 percent threshold needed to enter the legislature in Hesse, the region around Frankfurt.
«The Left can no longer be reckoned without,» senior party official Dietmar Bartsch said of the result, which extended the party's reach in the former West Germany. «Today is a breakthrough for us in the West.
The Left won 7.1 percent of votes in Lower Saxony, where they appeared to have helped push the center-left Social Democrats to a dismal showing of just over 30 percent in a state once run by Social Democratic ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
Whether or not the party made it into Hesse's parliament too, the result was a breakthrough for The Left's effort to establish itself in the former West Germany.
The party officially was formed in June after the successor party to the East German communists and a group of disillusioned former Social Democrats from the West agreed to join forces.
In 2005, the two parties ran together in national elections and won 8.7 percent of the vote, given them 54 seats in the federal parliament. That contributed to Schroeder's narrow defeat by Merkel's conservatives.
However, until Sunday, they had yet to establish themselves firmly in state-level politics. The Left won its first seats in a western state legislature last year, in the tiny and relatively poor city-state of Bremen.
The Left's new strength is likely to make it increasingly hard for either of the two big parties to build governing coalitions in future with their traditional smaller coalition partners _ the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats.
«That we have achieved this now is a remarkable advance and the other parties will now have to come to terms with a five-party system,» party leader Gregor Gysi said in Berlin. «It is confusing them already.
«We now have five camps nationwide. It will become all the more difficult for two parties to build a ruling coalition,» Eckhard Jesse, a political analyst from the Technical University of Chemnitz.
The Left is hoping for a similar success in Feb. 24 elections in the city-state of Hamburg and looking ahead to national parliamentary elections in 2009.
http://www.pr-inside.com/the-left-su...in-r407345.htm
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