So, waht the hell is up with voters these days? In 2000, the US couldn’t figure what the hell it wanted. Now, in 2005, it’s Germany:
BERLIN — “Chancellor War!” screamed the headline in Bild, Germany’s largest tabloid newspaper, on Monday. “Who will govern Germany now?”
The answer is still days, if not weeks, away. Incumbent Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his opponent, Angela Merkel, both claimed victory in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Their competing claims put Germany in a political deadlock and could stall efforts to revive the torpid economy.
“An unstable government and a perpetual election campaign with an uncertain outcome is the last thing our country needs,” said Hermann Franzen, the head of HDE, a retail trade association.
Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union, won 35.2% of the vote in Sunday’s elections, compared with 34.3% for Schroeder’s Social Democratic Party.
Each of the candidates in question could barely muster a third of the vote? That’s pathetic!!
A friend of mine over in German that I happened to meet when he was an exchange student over here was talking to me about all of this.
Apparently he’s not too fond of either of them, which I found funny.
He was also a huge pot-head though, so that could’ve had an impact on his decision-making skills. Pardon any typos, your comment box is giving me grief. ;_;
Roffle. Sorry for the double-post and all, but…
My school’s internet has my site blocked by webblocker. XD Freaking hilarious.