Saturday, February 19, 2011

GERMANY - In Hamburg, a very pale election

20 February 2011, voters are eligible to vote in the city-state of Hamburg. Early elections that follow the breakdown of the coalition "black-green" (CDU-Greens) and the resignation of the Christian Democrat mayor Ole von Beust (CDU). Passed into the hands of the right 10 years ago, the Hanseatic city - which was a stronghold of the Social Democrats (SPD) for more than 50 years - could return to the former Minister Olaf Scholz has taken over the SPD local 2010.

"No program, no vision, very little promise. No issues, except the power. It is a campaign on issues for political ghosts ghost, "laments Der Spiegel. "Clarity, responsibility, reason." Such slogans Olaf Scholz for this metropolis of 1.8 million inhabitants has more millionaires than any other Land in Germany, where one child in five lives on welfare.

All this is ridiculous, says the magazine in Hamburg.

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