fred Dregger, the parliamentary whip of the Christian Democrats, stated that "Those parties won that wanted Germany. Those parties lost that either did not want Germany, or
only pursued a German policy half heartedly" (New York Times, 1990, December 3, p. A10).
The projected makeup of Parliament based on the December 2 election shows that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) occupy
316 seats compared to the 234 seats they held following West Germany's last federal election in 1987. Compared to the 1987 election, the Social Democratic Party now holds 47 more positions. The Free Democratic Party hold 31 more seats, the Greens lost 37 seats, and the Party of Democratic Socialism gained 14.
Emerging triumphant, Kohl had this to say:
proud ... what is especially pleasing for me is that the result for the C.D.U. in east Germany is almost the same as in the west. Who would have thoug
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