This is the title of an article in Der Spiegel (English version.) The article states that a Chancellor must be elected/chosen by October 18th. I suspect that there will be some amount of discussion about this, among Germans, while we are there. Apparently major decisions are deadlocked until this is sorted out. Good wishes to our German hosts!
I'm not enough up on German politics to have valid opinions, so this is largely a spectator sport for me. My understanding is that there ended up being not much difference in their positions on: Iraq, economy, jobs, social state, foreign policy, or the admission of Turkey. Hard to figure out the lighter shadings of their positions. Notably absent from campaign discussions were EU issues (other than Turkey.)
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The headline posted by Spiegel is the best description for what happended here. Hope they (the politicians) will find a way out of that misery.
I hope so as well. Talk of 'Jamaica' solution, and others seems a bit strange, at least from here.
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