From: weberwu@inf.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff)
Subject: Re: Wahlen in Norddeutschland
Reply-To: dww@inf.fu-berlin.de
Organization: Free University of Berlin
Distribution: soc.culture.german
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:20:27 GMT

The election results. They are not a pretty sight.

Schleswig-Holstein:
Up until about midnight the Greens made it over the 5% barrier
and were in parliament. This was pretty cool, as this meant that
Mr. Engholm, the candidate for Ministerpresident, would not have
a seat of his own in parliament, and the SPD did not have a
majority, and would thus need a coalition partner. 
Shortly after midnight a "computer error" was declared, and the
Greens were left about 300 votes shy with 4.97% of the vote, 
giving Engholm his seat and an ever so slight majority.
The loony raving Fascist party of Mr. Frey, the DVU, got 6% of the
vote. He loomed onto the TV sets of the nation to denounce
foreigners, the government, asylum seekers, etc. etc. puke.
In case you don't know him, he publishes the weekly "Nationalzeitung",
a Fascist rag.
The pre-midnight results were:
SPD 46,2%
CDU 33,8%
FDP  5,6% (back in the parliament)
Gruene 5,0% (changed to 4.97 this morning)
SSW  1,9% (Party of the Danish minority, they kept their seat and
           the leader Karl-Otto Meyer hit Frey and Co with a lot
           of great verbal punches on TV. Way to go, Kalle!
DVU  6,3%
Others 1,2%

In the Luebeck general area the DVU got up to 13% (That's THIRTEEN).
Shame.

Baden-Wuerttemburg (not Niedersachsen!)

Sit down. This is awful.
CDU 39,6% (lost 10% to guess who)
SPD 29,4% (down 2,5 percent points)
Gruene 9,5% (with all that atomic power and industry down there, the
             Greens are needed. This is an increase of 2 procent points)
FDP  5,9% (The same)
REP 10,9% (The so-called Republican party. See below)  
Others 4,7%

The two main raving loonies from the Reps, Franz Schoenhuber and a
guy with wild eyes that looks like he's out of the asylum on vacation
got up on the TV soapboxes spouting "German money for German schools,
German money for German culture, save the DM [from the ECU], throw
the asylum seekers out". We turned off the TV and went for stiff
drinks. The Reps have invited David Irving to Germany to tell us
all why no Jews died in any concentration camps etc. 

People, it is happening all over again, just like when Hitler
came to power in the '30s. And yesterday they got a martyer to the
cause. A bunch of Reps were eating dinner at a Chinese restaurant in
Berlin (that's right, Foreigners out, but leave the restaurants here).
Eight masked foreigners (ya can tell by the smell or what?) stormed
into the restaurant, drew knives and knived the Reps. One died, the
others are in the hospital, but no longer in critical condition. 
Three names are mentioned in the newspaper, no idea if there were more.
So now the Reps will probably form "Revenge for Gerhard Kaindl"
committees and kill a bunch of foreigners. What is the world
coming to?

And still, I keep my foreigner's passport. I would like to be a
German so that I could vote, but at the moment I want nothing much to
do with this folk. I couldn't believe that the Free University
in Berlin, once a hotbed of leftist activity, just shrugged its
sholders. No flyers, no posters. Nobody even *talked* about it in
the Mensa or in the hallways. I put this on my door:

"Der Schoss ist fruchtbar noch aus dem das kroch." - B. Brecht

Enough flamage for one night.
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