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It‘s really not clear at all, where the country goes from here.

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I guess there is a point to drawing a dividing line and letting the PSD-AUR majority look a bit ridiculous in hearings, but it doesn’t make forming a government any easier.

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Unless I‘m missing something, it looks very unlikely that Muresan will get anywhere close to enough MPs to support his minority government at the investiture vote tomorrow and this has been clear for some time, so it‘s a bit of a puzzle to me why we are going through the motions here.

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It sets out a vision where they want to take the country. It also makes it more likely that we’ll get an earlier election, not next year, but in 2028.

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This is a strategy of having it both ways- sticking to fiscal rules and thinking big. Making big promises that you don’t have to implement immediately- it’s clever because „small steps now, big steps later“ gets centre-left parties out of the immediate fiscal constraint, at least for a while.

That was overall a good speech from Burnham with some big ideas including electoral reform, social care reform and an open-ended relationship with the EU. The strategy here is to set out a bold progressive agenda, but leave implementation for after an election (or when there is fiscal room re care).

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A lack of obvious talent in politics is a problem for parties on the centre-left in other countries. I don’t see that in the US (which has other problems, but talent isn’t one).

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Might be a bit controversial, but a party that counts amongst its potential Presidential candidates politicians of the caliber of Ossoff and AOC is maybe not quite as badly in crisis as it appears. There is a talented millennial generation ready to lead.

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If, as predicted, Muresan loses the vote, all cards are off again & President Dan might continue to look for that elusive government formula that can get enough votes in parliament (it's been 5 months now), or the country might be heading towards new elections, with far-right AUR leading the polls.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump's Ambassador to Greece, allegedly claimed as much at a dinner with a Greek minister & there were meetings between the PSD Party President & Guilfoyle in spring.

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It looks very unlikely right now, but not entirely impossible, that they will gain the votes needed. This comes after speculation that the last coalition government was brought down by PSD & AUR, in coordination with the Trump admin...

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... which rocked the Romanian justice system earlier this year. Romania is heading for a highly uncertain investiture vote this Wednesday for a reformist minority government headed by Siegfried Muresan, the national-liberal MEP, supported by PNL, USR & UDMR (the Hungarian minority).

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Was on the morning flight from Cluj to Bucharest & spotted the designated Minister of Justice, the independent reformist, former judge & BBU Law Prof Andrea Chiș, a few rows down. She is known for speaking out in the Recorder documentary "Captured Justice" ...

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Inadvertently interfering in the Romanian pastry wars…

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Burnham sticks to his guns re exclusives for the Sun. Born in Merseyside he grew up in the North West.As Minister he helped set up the Hillsborough Independent Panel: www.bbc.com/news/article.... Here are my thoughts from '23 about Labour's relationship with the press: fabians.org.uk/pressing-the...

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Burnham will not do 'special interviews' with Sun newspaper

The prime minister says he will do his "own communications", differently to others in the past.

Ja - ich sehe das schon auch, also ich bin da etwas hin und her gerissen. Aber die CDU könnte mal wieder ihr Profil schärfen und die Linken könnten linke(re) Politik machen. Es gibt ja klare Differenzen zwischen CDU und Linken in vielen Politikfeldern.

Also wird man sehen, ob es nötig ist oder nicht bzw wieviele Abgeordnete bei RGR nicht mitmachen wollen...

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Warum sollen wir jetzt von vorne rein immer Allparteienkoalition gegen die AfD machen, wenn es arithmetisch gar nicht nötig ist?

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Naja, es gibt hier eine Mehrheit für eine 3 Parteien Koalition ohne die CDU. Das ist, denke ich, für die Parteien Links - Mitte Links besser und für die CDU auch. Soll sie doch gegen RGR Opposition machen. Gut für Accountability, wenn da nicht nur die AfD rumschreit.

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ja, aber die CDU wird nicht mit der Berliner Linken koalieren (muss sie auch nicht). Also wäre es am Ende doch rein strategisch, weil man die Antwort eh schon weiß?

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Also es könnte schon sein, dass der Switch hin zur Mobilisierung um die 2000er dazu geführt hat, dass vielleicht weniger Themen gesetzt wurden.

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hm gute Frage. Meine eigene Forschung zeigt, dass Mobilisierungskampagnen von Mainstreamparteien in den letzten Jahren weniger gut funktionieren als noch vor 10-20 Jahren und auf dem Aggregat korreliert das natürlich mit dem Erstarken von extrem rechts, aber ich kenne kein spezifisches Papier dazu.

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Kann schon sein... 🤷‍♂️

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Erinnert mich ein bisschen an den Kommunikationsype nach Scholz/SPD 2021. Die gleiche Agentur hat auch 2025 gemacht. Die Effekte von diesen Sachen sind wahrscheinlich schon da, aber nicht riesig.

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Ich denke in MV wird der Kommunikation viel zu viel Kredit gegeben. Wie du geschrieben hast, ist Schwesig halt ne langjährige Ministerpräsidentin mit Amtsinhaberinbonus. Sie hat im Wahlkampf keine Fehler gemacht, aber jetzt so zu tun als ob das der kreativste Wahlkampf war... naja.

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So eine Anti-AfD Mobilisierungs-Kampagne kann schon funktionieren, aber das nutzt sich bis zur nächsten BW halt auch ab, wenn man das jetzt bei jeder Landtagswahl macht.

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Das komischste war der "Wir sind der Deich" Metaphor der SPD S-A. Das ist doch alles Binnenland dort ...

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Fun fact: I think Hagen, the current general secretary belonged to that wing once, but at one point decided to drift right.

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In what came afterwards, in my understanding, the main issue was that the most promising candidate of the civil liberties wing, Konstantin Kuhle, decided against standing and left politics.

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And much closer to today‘s UK Tories in their thinking on the budget, the environment and immigration, the main reason why the FDP broke the last coalition, which also cost them support.

Yes.. fair point on the pandemic. The traffic light coalition also has genuine achievements when it comes to implementing liberal nationality, family and name law, all originating with the justice ministry led by Marco Buschman, a FDP minister. But Lindner was always uncomfortable with that…

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I assume if they can agree there could be an option where Wüst leads the CDU and Söder becomes Chancellor.

You know the party much better than I do. Why do you think he won’t be able to stay on? The problem I see is that there is no obvious replacement who‘d go for it. Do you expect Wüst and/or Söder to move? Söder maybe?

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Much is made of state specific reasons, but the CDU's losses are perfectly in line with national polls that have them at around 20%. MV was one of their weakest states to start (despite Merkel's former constituency being there). While levels are different, both MV & Berlin moved in parallel: -8%p.

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Side note: This is not only another very bad result for the CDU, but for the centre-right in general. The FDP doesn't even factor anymore. 1% in MV and likely no more than 2-3% in Berlin. Looks like the populist rebirth of the Free Democrats isn't quite going to plan.

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