All of these things and obviously also politically the f. T. Is much stronger in these in these states than it is in western western states but i have to say i dont agree with you on that it would be a catastrophe for democracy if the left party and the city you went into a coalition in book i think its actually quite interesting. Contests trees for democracy if not interesting that theyre just raised on the list. What you need in new york chrissy is is. A balance between right and left and and if you have the seed you really forming a coalition with what used to be the communist governmental body in east germany just to prevent. To avoid going into a collision with a de then i think democracy really is being stretched to its head and it. Interesting though it might be to see its within its head thats not something something id like it would also be hypocritical because quite frankly the if de is
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not worse than the left party you have both pseudo toted totalitarian. democratic anti west anti nato anti european parties and i don t agree with me i just come back to the question of the unification and the success of reunification ality hernot has said that in many ways east and west absolutely have integrated and converge but michel if we look at surveys recent surveys we see significant divergences in political attitudes for example one survey shows a great deal less support for democracy itself in the east than in the west i think it s 42 percent of east germans said they re enthusiastic about democracy compared with 75 percent of west germans too what do you attribute that kind of divergence and in fact less than half support in east germany for the system itself