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Hi there!

Maybe the other German ußers can help me here. Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the first free elections in the GDR in 1990, several new parties formed, among other the Alliance 90 (an alliance of the former opposition groups in the GDR).

In the elections they received 2.9% of the citizens' votes. But here's my question: During the protests in the GDR in 1989, many citizens supported the oppositions against the SED. So why did they perfom so poorly in the general elections?
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