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Die Schulz-Frage - Germany 2017

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There's currently A LOT of speculation about how the 2017 parliamentary election in Germany is going to go, especially since there are questions about the chancellor candidates for both the Union and the Social Democrats. Based on current polling, as well as the presumption that Merkel runs again for the Union despite recent problems and that President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz becomes SPD chancellor candidate (but not party head, since they don't have to overlap)... Here's one possible way on how it goes. As you can probably guess, this would be an #R2G coalition, so the SPD, The Left and the Greens form the government coalition after this. Due to societal fatigue, I can kinda see this happening xD

Now please be aware of three things:
1) Due to recent electoral reforms parties that didn't receive overhang mandates (which happens when a party receives more direct mandates than proportional ones) will receive extra mandates of their own to ensure that the overall distribution of seats isn't distorted from the election result. Since overhang mandates are hard to predict and because of that reform, I have chosen to ignore overhang mandates for this infobox since the proportions within the Bundestag don't change anymore because of them. 
2) I did not add the popular vote because of one simple reason: it's very hard to evaluate how the amount of registered voters (which happens semi-automatically here) will have changed compared to 2013. A good number to guess in terms of voter turnout would be around 70 percent though, in case you are curious about that aspect.
3) This piece of artwork does of course contain certain amounts of political bias. You wanna make an infobox which fits your ideology better? Make it yourself and don't rant to me about it xD

EDIT: Fixed the order of parties.
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Revive Ernst, Make him Kanzler