Klaus Wowereit's SPD party emerged winners from Sunday's state elections in Berlin. But with only 30.4% of the election going to the returning Mayor's party, all the talk is about a coalition....again.Doubt remains as to whether Wowereit will select his former coalition partner, PDS/Die Linke - who returned worse than expected results at this year's elections - or whether he might choose the ever popular Greens.
Two other questions are also hanging in the air from this year's campaign. Firstly, how is it that 41% of the Berlin population did not bother to vote? Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, how did Berlin's political parties manage to spend 3.6 Million Euros just on advertising posters? al
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