Posted on 02/24/2018 10:29:17 PM PST by Olog-hai
Senior figures of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) voiced their views on the party’s direction to German media outlets this weekend, ahead of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet selections on Sunday and the party’s vote on the grand coalition agreement, to take place on Monday.
While the SPD members vote over whether to join the grand coalition, Merkel’s conservatives are doing some soul searching over whether their party should remain in the center, as it has throughout her leadership, or shift to the right to try and win back lost voters.
“Sometimes the conservative element of the conservative bloc could be more prominent,” the CDU premier of the state of Schleswig Holstein, Daniel Günther, told the Neue Osnabrücker newspaper.
Senior Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) conservative Alexander Dobrindt told the Passauer Neue Presse that “the conservative bloc must cover the spectrum from the center to the democratic right.”
The appeal to pull the party away from the center is grounded on the parliamentary election result of September 2017. Although the CDU received the most votes, the conservatives lost support to the far-right AfD and slumped to their lowest finish since 1949. …
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Something a little more conservative than inviting Muslim hordes to invade and destroy Germany?
>> or shift to the right to try and win back lost voters.
And then shift back after the election?
Merkle has taken the CDU/CSU well to the left. Sort of like the Democratic party that left its backers in the US.
Where do the voters go? A lot are finding the, more and more conservative, message of the AfD to their liking.
Just like in the US where the “Tea Party” was constantly maligned by the MSM, the same is true in Germany for any that don't hue to the main MSM party line.
Germans are beginning to see through the BS news being offered up to them. Much to the surprise of the MSM. Does this sound familiar? My take is Germans want change. Real change to the real problems that affect them. The old ways aren't working and the political elite is just hoping that they can get by.
Just as both parties in the US have gone to the left, the Republicans only somewhat less so than the Dems.
The Greens are an international party. How are they even permitted in US elections?
Same with Communist Party USA. Thry are alligned with foreign groups. How do you keep the rest of The Party from influencing campaigns especially online?
So much for collusion being verbotten.
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