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#Berlin: Regional electionsets back the Olaf Scholz and his Coalition. Judy Dempsey, Strategic Europe, Carnegie Endowment.

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

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#Berlin: Regional electionsets back the Olaf Scholz and his Coalition. Judy Dempsey, Strategic Europe, Carnegie Endowment.

https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-election-win-boosts-german-conservatives/a-64690772
https://amp.dw.com/en/berlin-election-win-boosts-german-conservatives/a-64690772


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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batser with my colleague, Judy Demsie, the editor-in-chief

0:40.0

of Strategic Europe. Judy is in Berlin. She's with the Carnegie Endowment of International

0:45.6

Peace and now we turn to a local election in Berlin. This is an election that is right

0:53.0

now being understood as a measure of Olaf Schultz' chancellery. You remember that Olaf Schultz

0:59.2

head of the SPD, the Socialists, leads a coalition that includes many of his rival parties,

1:07.1

the Greens for example, or the free Democrats. However, it does not include the Christian

1:12.0

Democrats who are understood in German terms as conservative. The vote in Berlin, however,

1:19.3

is upset the apple cart not completely, but their apples on the ground. So I go to Judy

1:23.6

for an interpretation of this. Judy, reading in the German papers in translation, I read

1:30.3

that this was a good day for the CDU, the Christian Democrats who were pushed out of office

1:36.1

when Olaf Schultz became chancellor and a very bad day for the SPD. What's happened in

1:41.6

Berlin? How do we understand the vote?

1:44.4

What's happened in Berlin is that the vote in Berlin are just fed up. They are fed up

1:50.3

of how badly the city is run. They're fed up of the administration. They are fed up

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