"For the CDU, the conservative-Free Democratic coalition is one option among others, " Mr. Niebel admits.
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Still, should they get enough votes, a conservative-Free Democratic government would be all but certain.
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It is not elated by the recovery of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the junior partner in her coalition.
That softens opposition from the Free Democratic Party, the CDU's pro-business coalition partner.
The current Parliament is considering legislation that would govern the May elections, the first free democratic vote in over four decades.
Scientology has been monitored in Germany in the belief that its activities are "directed against the free democratic order" in the country.
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One was a surprise defeat for the pro-business Free Democratic Party, making it the sixth out of six state elections where it has lost heavily.
In Germany's election in September, the issue poses the greatest threat to the Free Democratic Party, Merkel's junior coalition partner which has a pro-business platform.
Liberals are defecting in droves to the opposition Free Democratic Party.
The Social Democratic foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will go, but his successor, almost certainly Guido Westerwelle of the Free Democratic Party, has not yet arrived.
Frank Schaeffler, a German member of parliament in the Free Democratic Party, has previously advocated the sale of uninhabited Greek islands to fund creditor repayments.
The liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), the junior partner in her coalition government, is against a rescue, as are many politicians from her own Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
One answer, Mrs Lagarde argues, would be to cut taxes, an idea supposedly favoured by Germany's coalition government, which combines Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union with the Free Democratic Party.
Christa Markwalder, a lawmaker from the pro-business Free Democratic Party, said she didn't think passage of the initiative would lead to an exodus of companies from Switzerland but would attract attention from other countries studying corporate-governance policies.
Her coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, has lost domestic support, so she will need to convince the more liberal members of the leading parties, particularly the Green Party and the Social Democrats, that the plan for a more powerful European Financial Stability Facility is the right choice for Germany.
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They said such powers "thwart the will of the people" in free, democratic elections.
"In a free and democratic society, insults should not be a criminal offence, " he says.
And it is a responsibility the free and democratic world has to shoulder together.
Nothing less than our survival as a free, democratic and secular nation is at stake.
It can only be done through democracy, by establishing a free and democratic environment with people's participation.
Terrorists who target such events know they are disrupting the comfortable assumptions of a free and democratic society.
He's a strong leader who wants a free and democratic Iraq to succeed.
We stand here today as free and democratic peoples because of each other.
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It is another thing when the political system has changed and the country has stopped being free and democratic.
Clearly authoritarian regimes (which have shown the willingness to use force in the past) are very different from free, democratic societies.
Many of us wish it were more free and democratic, and some in business will choose to stay away until it is.
"At the same time, it affects Thailand's image as a free and democratic society, " AFP quoted the EU's delegation in Bangkok as saying.
For his part, Medvedev was first to instruct election authorities to look into reports of violations, but insisted the election was free and democratic.
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Comment: These provisions of Articles 11, 12 and 13 authorize national elections, but do not purport to institute a genuinely free and democratic electoral process.
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