Die Bundestagswahl vom 18. September 2005 Votum für Wechsel in Kontinuität

On September 18, 2005 the parties of the incumbent German government suffered considerable losses, the dissatisfaction with the second term of the red-green coalition had been too big. However, CDU/CSU and FDP also clearly missed the majority. Though the voters had confidence that these parties coul...

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Veröffentlicht in:Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen
1. Verfasser: Hilmer, Richard (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Müller-Hilmer, Rita (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:ger
Veröffentlicht: 2006
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Abstimmung > Wahl > Wähler > Wahlverhalten > Wahlbeteiligung > Wahlergebnis > Wahlforschung > Parteiensystem > Partei > Deutschland > Bundestagswahl > Geschichte 2005
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Zusammenfassung:On September 18, 2005 the parties of the incumbent German government suffered considerable losses, the dissatisfaction with the second term of the red-green coalition had been too big. However, CDU/CSU and FDP also clearly missed the majority. Though the voters had confidence that these parties could promote economic development they did not trust them to solve the problems on the labor market. The far-reaching plans to reconstruct the social systems and the tax system raised serious doubts that the expected benefits from the longed for economic revival would be fairly distributed. The Social Democrats (SPD) were able to use these doubts for a successful mobilization of their voters in the final campaign period. Many voters who were strongly unsettled by the consequences of globalisation - especially workers and unemployed - did not trust the two big catch-all-parties but voted for the Left.PDS. Its gain finally resulted in a constellation where neither of the two political camps (neither CDU/CSU and FDP nor SPD and Greens) was able to achieve a majority. As a consequence the only sustainable majority turned out to be a grand coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD. In forcing such a coalition the voters did not rebuff further reforms. Instead their decision reflects that the majority is in favour of reforms within the existing system, as well as for retaining a society showing solidarity and for continuity in important social policy and foreign policy issues. Different from the two preceding national elections, political issues were clearly the focus in 2005 whereas the question who should be chancellor was less important. (Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen / FUB)
ISSN:0340-1758