Posted on 09/17/2016 11:22:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Chancellor Angela Merkel faces new gains by the anti-migrant AfD party in Berlin state elections on Sunday, as a wave of protest voting against her welcome to refugees is expected to hit the hip, multicultural capital. […]
Fresh gains in long-divided Berlin — where the AfD has polled 14 percent, a year ahead of national elections — would spell another setback for Merkel, whose open-door policy brought one million asylum-seekers to Germany last year. […]
A strong showing for the AfD — which was founded, originally as a euroskeptic fringe party, just over three years ago — would hurt all major parties and continue a long-term fragmentation of the political spectrum. …
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Berlin is a city state, one of three in Germany. The others are Hamburg and Bremen.
Wild-card in this election is the Russian-German vote. AfD went out and had various ad’s around the city in Russian, and clearly went after the bulk of the 300,000 Russian-Germans in the city-state. Voting pattern reported this week on absentee ballots is that a lot more people were voting than usual. Could fake out the poll expectations.
I hope this ugly-a$$ muzzard-loving hag gets trounced and is forced to resign.
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