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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Would it not be possible for a 3-party coalition to be perfectly stable? We've had many of those in the Netherlands that went just fine, I believe. Though I guess given the lack of a threshold, those parties might differ less than they do in Germany?

[–] trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

If German politicians behaved like adult human beings, and did, as they are supposed to, work for the good of the entire country, then, this would work. The problem is that they don't, most of the time.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Possible maybe, but such a coalition would either involve the Greens, who are absolutely despised by parts of the Union to the point of Bavarian Minister-president Markus SΓΆder declaring them their main enemy and ruling out any coalition, or the FDP, who sabotaged our previous government, caused its collapse and is thus hated by the SPD. The BSW is not a realistic coalition partner with its Pro-Russian stance. So any option for a 3-party coalition would likely result in a lot of conflict and chaos in my opinion. Chaos which the AfD can use to its benefit.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I kinda wondered about BSW though. They are left, they are anti-immigration and they are capable of pulling votes from AfD and Die Linke - the two parties that compete most with CDU/CSU and SPD, respectively.

So they could be quite a strategic partner.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

BSW is basically the United Russia party of Germany. And they will not get any seats in parliament according to the current projections.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 3 points 3 hours ago

They have repeatedly made it clear that for them to even consider a coalition, the other parties would have to agree to stop all support for Ukraine and make peace with Russia with a full normalisation of relations. Sarah Wagenknecht won't budge on that, and that makes any coalition talks with them unfeasible for the other parties.

[–] You@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

BSW completely depends on their (Co-) party chairwoman and name giver Sahra Wagenknecht who is simply unwilling to bear gouvernmental responsibility. And she is considered to be a russian mouthpiece.

Merz ruled out to form a coalition with BSW and I don't see any sane person who would try to sway this decision.