Hamburg local election results (February 2008) - Hamburg

ARD predicition at 1800:

%
CDU 42.5
SDP 34
Green 9.5
FDP 5
Linke 6.5

Might well change, remember Hessen.

IF the FDP make it into the Bürgerschaft, Beust still won't have a majority and if they don't then a SPD-Grün coalition would have a majority either.

Related topic: Regional elections in the state of Hesse

didnt they say beforehand red-green is not an option?

SPD- Green yes, but that's not a majority.

Maybe the Greens will sell their voters down the Elbe tonight and down the Isar next week...

Welcome to the new 5 party system.

The ARD is playing up that the CDU and the Greens might go into coalition:

http://www.tagesschau.de/

If they sell us down the Elbe in Hamburg, they'll sell us down the Isar in Munich.

Already this week their top bloke "HoppolaBrez'n" or whatever he is called has been making cooing noises to the right.
A vote for the Greens in Munich next Sunday?
Might as well book your own ticket to get deported for forgetting to stamp your U-Bahn ticket.

Whatever happens, I hope some sense of sanity can return to Hamburg's education policies. Lately they were talking about holding school classes on Saturday. Idiots.

That was not uncommon in earlier times, I remember going to school on a Satuurday when visiting on a school exchange as a youngster.

I went to school Saturday mornings...

I too, 4 lessons, until 8th grade or so, every second Saturday. Then it was abolished. Was a good thing actually because we had less lessons Mon-Fri. I would always prefer going Saturday mornings over late afternoons. I was always really tired when we had school that late. At my school lessons began at 7:30 and I had to get up at 6.

Just curious, MT, since we already know who you don't want to see in the governing coalition in the Hamburg Senate, perhaps you'll tell us which coalition of parties you would like to see in power there?

Interesting that the former Communists seem to have gotten considerably less than the 9% they were polling in advance of the election. Maybe the thought of a return of Stasi and the celebration of the Berlin Wall by that Linkspartei extremist in Niedersachsen made the SPD look a bit more acceptable to some would-be Linkspartei voters.

I'd rather see a black-red than a black-green coalition. If the greens get any influence here in Hamburg we'll get nothing done to improve the harbour area, local road network, power supply...

The polls were out for the SPD too iirc, the comments of the Landtag member in Niedersachsen were unhelpful to the general political debate say the least.
But I think that applies generally and not nescessarily directly to the Linke result in Hamburg.

Each of the 3 possible coalitions possible in Hamburg brings advantages and disadvantages, I'm not especially for or against any of them as yet.
It'll be interesting to see if the Greens tear themselves apart on this.

SDP-Green-Linke?

SPD-Green-Linke is one of three theoretical possibilities but so not going to happen:
Because of the SPD and the Greens.

It's either CDU-Green or CDU-SPD effectively.

I completely agree with this deportation thing from Hessen.

If u can't behave if a foreign country, then u can't complain if they kick your stupid ass out.