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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AfD (Conservatives Trump was looking for) doubled their vote, but won't be part of government. Party with the most votes went from 23% to 28%.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Now I’m confused, afd won’t be part of the German government? Why is that?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Dude because they’re literal Nazis

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In parliamentary democracies, the "government" is the term used for the ruling party or coalition. Even more specifically, it's used for the Ministers. It's a more specific term than just referring to all elected representatives sitting in the parliament (the Bundestag, in the case of Germany, or maybe the Bundestag & Bundesrat). Comparing it to the American system, "government" is somewhat analogous to the "executive"—the President and Cabinet Secretaries—except that it's a fuzzy term and can also mean the non-ministerial members of parliament who are allied with the ministers.

So the AfD will not be a part of the Government because both the CDU/CSU and SPD have placed a cordon sanitaire around the AfD. They refuse to work with them because they view them as dangerous extremists. It would be theoretically possible for the CDU/CSU to break that cordon and form a government between just their party and the AfD, or they can form a traffic light coalition with the SPD and Green party. The latter seems more likely, given recent German political history.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Because the actual party with the most votes categorically refused to work with them. Going inti a coalitiin with the 3rd placed SPD will still guarantee the CDU a majority in the Bundestag.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Cause they can't find common ground and form alliances with other parties, to form a majority.

At least that is how I understood it.