I think you just hit the nail on the head. Yes, of course he’s aiming to win the general election. And then what? I doubt whether or not he knows himself.

It was not really Horst but his fantastic Baron Guttenberg.

I do not like the PM of Bavaria but I know one of his state secretaries, Markus Sackmann, whose father incidentally was also a state secretary under Franz Josef Strauss.

If I may intrude here, many are disappointed by both the bigger parties. Remember this was not a general election. Voting for AD is not an option for many, especially when one considers the fact that their leader appears to have an identity crisis. In addition, by definition AD are not even a political party.

How can they be expected to make it anywhere if everyone has the same mentality and doesn’t vote for them? There were plenty of small parties in this election, you had a choice. Ok, leave out Lowell and Bezzina.. *shudder*

Leo, I felt a bit lonely at the polls.
43%…mamma mia, I must be one of the last idealistic Europeans (literally, because of my very mixed European familiy background).

And don’t forget the Bavarian Christian Socialists and their ‘phoenix from the ashes’ PM Horst Seehofer.
What a laugh, indeed!

It should have been quite entertaining for you in Germany yesterday.

Guido the Liberal Conqueror, Bisky the Neo-Left Winner, Greens still alive, Angela minus and Martin Schulz dazzled.

Frank Walter Steinmeier squeezed his way at Anne Will.

Turn-out in Germany was low at ca. 43%, whereby it was estimated that around 8 million social-democrat voters did not vote!

And still, one could also gather that the social-democrats in Malta had won comfortably.

n.b.: Anne Will presents a political programme every Sunday evening on German National TV.

I’m not put off the Nationalist party at all. I voted for them once in 1998. I do find it a bit hard to vote for them because most of my family vote for Labour.

I have to admit that I am not very interested in politics but I simply love reading your blog – besides your wittiness I find myself agreeing with what you say most of the time.

What I do not like about Muscat’s earthquake is that there is no earthquake at all, when there is a great need for one. Muscat is just talk, talk, talk. He says many nice things but as you rightly point out he’s just aiming to win the general election and one cannot believe what he says. He’s so ambitious that I’m sure he would not mind lying to get what he wants.

[Daphne – Thank you for replying.]

And not to forget the German National Socialists, the NSDAP.

Muscat really seems to go with the flow…