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Feb 6Liked by Elena Louisa Lange

The new uniparty is the ADP ("Alle demokratischen Parteien", as they like to call themselves).

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Urgh

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Do they really use that expression? Could you post more about that? We have a similar rhetoric in Bulgaria.

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Oh yes, they do. There are four parties in this circle: CDU (conservative), SPD (Social Democrats), Greens, and FDP (Liberals in the European sense). Sometimes they will generously include Die Linke (left, in large part evolved from the GDR uniparty).

Chancellor Scholz (SPD):

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/sommerinterview-scholz-108.html

CDU:

https://www.cdu.de/artikel/dieses-land-steht-vor-grossen-herausforderungen

Greens:

https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/interview-mit-co-gruenen-chefin-ricarda-lang-demokraten-fehlt-emotionales-angebot_id_259561319.html

FDP (actually, the FDP might have started the trend):

https://www.christian-lindner.de/aktuelles?current=/node/6711&page=10

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Thank you. Apparently this model is disseminating across Europe; in Bulgaria we have three parties that call themselves "the euroatlantic majority" who have had long feuds, mutual charges in corruption etc., but since the Ukrainian war began, they have formed a coalition against the "antidemocratic", "anti-european" forces, that is, against everybody else.

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