What's happening next? The CDU will form a coalition with the FDP, we'll how they'll try to solve problems like unemployment in NRW. For poor students, it'll become more difficult to study at all, the CDU already announced to easen dismissal protection - read their program for the first 200 days here.

The SPD and the Green party combined have less seats than the CDU in parliament.
N-TV asked the future NRW Minister of Economics and Labour how much they want to lower the unemployment rate. His response was that he won't answer that question in detail and specify any numbers, since "others already got into a scrape before with that" - hinting to Chancellor Schröder's statement at the beginning of his government in 1998 that he doesn't deserve to be reelected if he can't lower the employment rate drastically (I think he said he wanted to decrease it by half). Anyway, some numbers for you:

CDU 44,1% +7,1% and 85 seats
SDP 37,4% -5,4%     73
Green 6,1% -1,3%     11
FDP 5,9% -3,7%     12
others 6,6% +2,2%

The NRWSPD reports in their own weblog here.

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