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Political Stability (Overview (The election results during the middle…
Political Stability
Overview
The election results during the middle years of the Weimar Republic gave grounds for cautious optimism about its survival
The extremist parties of both left and right lost ground and altogether they polled less than 30% of the votes cast.
The DNVP peaked in December 1924 with 103 seats (20.5% of the vote) and fell back to 73 (14.2%) in May 1928
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The KPD, although recovering slightly by 1928 with 54 seats (10.6%), remained below their performance of May 1924 and well below the combined votes gained by the KPD and USPD in June 1920
In comparison the parties sympathetic to the republic maintained their share of the vote and the SPD made substantial gains, winning 153 seats (29.8%) in 1928.
As a result, following the 1928 election, a 'Grand Coalition' was of the SPD, DDP, DVP and Centre was formed under Hermann Muller (the leader of the SPD).
It had the support of over 60% of the Reichstag and it seemed as if democracy was at last beginning to emerge in Weimar politics.
Coalition Politics
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The parties tended to reflect their traditional interests: religion and class so attempts to widen their appeal made little progress.
As a result, the differences between the main parties meant that opportunities to form workable coalitions were very limited
There was never any possiblility of a coalition including both the SPD and the DNVP because the former belived in parliamentary democracy whereas the latter fundamentally rejected the Weimar political system.
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