Hundestag? Germany’s SPD red-faced after dog joins party
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Members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) began casting their votes on Tuesday to decide whether they would enter into government with Angela Merkel’s conservatives. One of them was a new member - a dog called Lima. The three-year-old mutt was signed-up for membership by Germany’s daily tabloid Bild. The paper claims that the stunt was designed to test the validity of the SPD’s online membership application process,
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specifically the identity-checking procedures, in the run-up to the vote. For the ruse, Bild journalists applied for party membership using Lima’s personal details. They called her Lima B, using her owner’s surname, included her occupation as unemployed and her age in dog years: 21 According to the publication, the party failed to spot the fraud and Lima was accepted as a member. The floppy-eared pooch was sent a postal ballot so..
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..she could participate in the vote due to end on March 2.https://www.rt.com/news/419391-dog-joins-german-spd-party/
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>>156981 Who do you think she voted for?
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cute socialist doggo
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>>158544 Prolly someone with not much malice. I hear dogs can sense that.
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>>158619 "socialist"
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>>158619 The SPD is not „socialist“ The are more liberal/conservative. The spd is responsible for having german soldiers again in foreign countries after WW2 plus sinking social standards and cutting workers rights in germany. The sad thing is, that the conservatives and liberals are even more worse. With Merkel the Bundeswehrmacht would have participated on George w. Crussade in Iraq... And now as literally self-labeled „alternative“ nazist party is stronger in polls than spd.
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| Members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) began casting their votes on Tuesday to decide whether they would enter into government with Angela Merkel’s conservatives. One of them was a new member - a dog called Lima.
The three-year-old mutt was signed-up for membership by Germany’s daily tabloid Bild. The paper claims that the stunt was designed to test the validity of the SPD’s online membership application process,