They decided to sell to Magna, whose bid had been anointed by Merkel and the CDU party.

I’m not sure that Merkel can lose now.

Of course, with the SDP categorically refusing to form a coalition with the Left Party, we’re likely to end up with the status quo after elections anyway: The SDP gets the most seats and votes, but by refusing to ally with the Left Party, it means that the CDU-FDP coalition has more seats than the SDP-Green coalition, and the SDP is once again forced to be a junior coalition member.

This may have been “responsible” in 2005, when the last elections happened, but in 2009, after pretty much every single complaint of the LP about the excesses of capitalism have proved true, it’s just stupid.