Saved by the Danes

摘要

It was like Florida all over again, only in-stead of counting dimpled chads, they counted Danes. If another 745 citizens (of 1.5m) had voted for the opposition in Schleswig-Holstein on February 20th, the centre-left coalition would have lost power in the state, which shares a border with Denmark. As it is, the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens are likely to stay in office thanks only to a Danish minority party that did not need to pass the 5% threshold for seats in parliament (negotiations continued through the week).