Q: If you could've voted today, how would you have voted? [NRW Elections 2010]

(Yeah, crossposting formspring.me questions is the cool new thing.)

Most likely social democrat (SPD). Possibly Pirates. I am not up to date enough with North-Rhine Westphalian politics to say for sure.

I can say, though, that I enjoy the current result projections. Red-Green in NRW would be ideal, for several reasons:

1) First and foremost: Goodbye CDU/FDP Bundesrat majority. The Bundesrat is a gremium made of representatives of all german states. It can block a lot of legislation. It will, from now on, most likely be able to block things, because the governing parties (CDU [right-conservative] / FDP [libertarian/rich-people-party] will not have a majority anymore. This means, amongst other things: Goodbye to plans for Kopfpauschale (Highly associal crap, IMO, if you’re curious, ask and I’ll try to explain it as I understand it) and goodbye to plans for longer nuclear power plant runtimes. :3

2) Real chances for school system reform in NRW, and consequently, other places. Same goes for tuition fees. NRW sacking tuition fees could help us here in BW a LOT.

3) It’s a nice signal that the german left (Political direction, not the party) is back.

Oh, also, the Pirate Party got a nice 2%-ish result. That’s okay. :3