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Provisional official result for Saxony:

CDU 32.2 percent, AfD 27.5 percent, Left 10.4 percent, Greens 8.6 percent, SPD 7.7 percent, FDP 4.5 percent (below the threshold)

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Thank you for the update. Somehow, I've been unable to find out so far whether Brexit is currently scheduled for the start or the end of October 31st.

Provisional official result for Brandenburg: SPD 26.2 percent, AfD 23.5 percent, CDU 15.6 percent, Greens 10.8 percent, Left 10.7 percent, Brandenburg United Citizens' Movements/Free Voters exactly 5 percent (and at least one electoral district seat, so they don't have to worry about the threshold),...

By the way, do I get this right that "MacAnDàil" means something like "Son of the Assembly"?

In both states, voter turnout was a good deal higher than in their previous state legislative elections. Turnout rose from 47.9 to 60.5 percent in Brandenburg and from 49 percent to 65 percent in Saxony.

Yes, seems likely. Edit: That said, IMO procedures that can keep parties from getting all the seats they're entitled to are a bad idea. (I'm not interested in posting all the extrapolations ("Hochrechnungen") as they come in; I plan to post the Provisional Official Final Results (which are...

In Saxony, the AfD wants to get a new election. Based on some provisions of state electoral laws that I don't really know much about, the State Constitutional Sourt had ordered a shortening of the AfD's electoral list, which might have the impact that the AfD can't send as many people into the legis...

Exit poll results for the state legislative election in Brandenburg (Germany): SPD 27.5 percent, AFD 22.5 percent, CDU 15.5 percent, Left 11.0 percent, Greens 10.0 percent, some local party alliance that I don't know much about is currently exactly at the 5 percent threshold, FDP 4.8 percent (probab...

I read the initial post, and started thinking about how my limited conworlding measured up to it, and then I read the initial reactions and wondered if I should post here at all. I completely agree that people shouldn't copy-and-paste very long excerpts from other websites. That said, the only "...

This is getting a bit of topic.

India has removed 1.9 million people in Assam from a list of citizens:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49520593

Americans shorten the word "bratwurst" to what?

In Germany, pizza is traditionally seen as Italian food, although many pizza delivery services explicitly advertise "American style pizza" these days.

Except that apparently, vertreten by itself means 'to represent' or 'to substitute'. :? Yes, that, too. So how do you say “misrepresent”? As in "distort something"? "Falsch darstellen". As in "be bad at representing someone you're supposed to represent"? I can't really...

Ist dir "Schmelzkäse" ein Begriff? What does it refer to? It is. I'm not entirely sure what type of cheese I'd associate with it, though. First and foremost, I'd probably associate it with cheese with a butter-like texture, though - cheese that you can spread like butter (edit: but not re...

In the part of Germany where I live - things may or may not be the same in other parts of Germany - processed cheese in wrapped slices is often sold as "Chesterkäse", which would probably be seen as very insulting by people from the actual city of Chester.

This discussion made me curious what the Dutch call Hollandaise, so I looked it up in the Dutch Wikipedia and found this glorious first sentence: Hollandaisesaus (of Hollandse saus) is een van oorsprong Franse saus die vooral in Duitsland populair is. ("Hollandaise sauce (or Hollandic sauce) i...

or is there an actual type of food that's called that? I thought it was supposed to be German food in general? I'd say in Germany, people (if they're ethnically German) usually don't really think of food as German food - more as food from this place or region or food from that place or region. The ...

My impression is that US-Americans call a specific type of cheese "American cheese", so...

I am kind of curious about this "The German", though. Is that meant as a hypothetical, or is there an actual type of food that's called that?