Mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz have won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in parliament, possible coalition outcomes and voter demographics.
Final graphic shows why the far-right hates education. I’m probably jumping to conclusions, but I wonder if their relatively low popularity among higher-educated voters is due to:
Voters being more aware of their history (a “… doomed to repeat it” sort of thing)
Better at spotting populist lies (I don’t know enough about German politics to know how populist the Left Party is)
Leading more comfortable lives, thus less inclined to reach for extremes.
It’s an undemocratic thought, but sometimes I wish there were some sort of aptitude test right before casting a vote. Or at the very least, a quick quiz to confirm you’re aware of the party’s key program points. Obviously, both options are ripe for abuse.
If democracy doesn’t work for people, they’re fine with getting rid of it altogether. The East was never really invested into after reunification, and in the whole country the poorest have been going backwards for decades. It’s the consequence of the political debate being limited to very strict parameters of what is and is not acceptable to talk about in terms of solutions to problems. Even the ‘socialist’ party will go for neoliberal solutions and won’t talk about the wealthy and corporations extracting wealth from the country.
And if you can’t talk about that, it’s easy to blame immigrants instead for the very real economic problems people are experiencing.
The East was never really invested into after reunification
Gee, I wonder why, after having been screwed by the sovjiet regime for decades (first by complete destruction of all industry, then in regards to fair voting process) and then getting screwed by west Germany by complete destruction of all industry & a lot of scams running wild, thus leading to high unemployment, thus leading to all kind of fun things, like widespread drug abuse, which then leads to domestic abuse and poorer education, digging the hole even deeper.
This is a problem 75 years in the making and there is no help in sight.
Final graphic shows why the far-right hates education. I’m probably jumping to conclusions, but I wonder if their relatively low popularity among higher-educated voters is due to:
It’s an undemocratic thought, but sometimes I wish there were some sort of aptitude test right before casting a vote. Or at the very least, a quick quiz to confirm you’re aware of the party’s key program points. Obviously, both options are ripe for abuse.
If democracy doesn’t work for people, they’re fine with getting rid of it altogether. The East was never really invested into after reunification, and in the whole country the poorest have been going backwards for decades. It’s the consequence of the political debate being limited to very strict parameters of what is and is not acceptable to talk about in terms of solutions to problems. Even the ‘socialist’ party will go for neoliberal solutions and won’t talk about the wealthy and corporations extracting wealth from the country.
And if you can’t talk about that, it’s easy to blame immigrants instead for the very real economic problems people are experiencing.
Gee, I wonder why, after having been screwed by the sovjiet regime for decades (first by complete destruction of all industry, then in regards to fair voting process) and then getting screwed by west Germany by complete destruction of all industry & a lot of scams running wild, thus leading to high unemployment, thus leading to all kind of fun things, like widespread drug abuse, which then leads to domestic abuse and poorer education, digging the hole even deeper.
This is a problem 75 years in the making and there is no help in sight.
Yeah, after the excesses of the GDR they weren’t exactly going to vote for the socialists either.
The PDS, which is Basicly the GDRs successor, got 10 % in East Germany eight after the unification.