German Greens

Slogging hard to get the nomination papers completed and in this week but bouyed by the news yeasterday from Germany. Baden-Württemberg has gone Green and ousted Merkel's Christian Democrats (in an SPD / Green coalition). This is from the Indy and this from Jim Jepps, the feeling is that the disaster in Japan gave teh Greens a final boost.

The German Greens had been around 20% for a while so were due for a good result soon. Let's hope we can get some good results here in a few weeks time. My previous post on regional polls suggests thing are looking up for radical politics!

Baden-Württemberg results:

Party	Vote %	Change	Seats	Change
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	39	-5.2	60	-9
The Greens	24.2	12.5	36	19
Social Democratic Party (SPD)	23.1	-2.1	35	-3
Free Democratic Party (FDP)	5.3	-5.4	7	-8
Die Linke	2.8	-0.3
Pirate Party	2.1	2.1
The Republicans	1.1	-1.4
All Others	2.4