Posted on 09/24/2017 11:10:59 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Although Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats have lost 9 percent compared to the last elections, her party has yet again become the largest party in Germany's parliament today. Merkel's CDU won 32.5 percent of the vote. That's significantly less than four years ago, but because Germany's electorate is more divided than ever before, it's enough to make her chancellor once more.
Well, if she's able to form a coalition with the liberal Free Democrats and the Greens, that is, who finished the day with respectively 10.5 and 9.4 percent of the vote.
For Merkel, the results will leave a bitter taste in her mouth; not only because she has lost support and now needs other parties to form a coalition government, but also because she now has a competitor to her right. For the first time in decades, a rightwing populist party has won enough votes to get into the Bundestag. Alternative für Deutschland, which is routinely depicted as 'racist' in American media, won 13.5 percent of the vote making AfD Germany's third largest party.
The second largest party is, who else?, the social democrats of the SPD. However, if Merkel is somewhat disappointed, today truly was a day from hell for the SPD and its leader Martin Schulz. The SPD ended the day with a mere 20.2 percent of the vote. That's the worst result for the social democrats since the end of the Second World War. As a result, Schulz has already announced that he is not willing to form a coalition with Merkel.
Today's results are a clear sign that German voters are just about fed up with Merkel's (and Schulz's) immigration policy.
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Deutshland ist und hast verloren.
Immer ganz grosse Shade.
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
I thought of that right after I pushed “post”. Further elaboration might be in bad taste.
Put a fork in it, Germany is done, finished, finito.
In fact, it's the same thing all over again, but the Germans evidently can't see it. They couldn't seen the insanity of electing Hitler either.
hast = hat
Entschuldigung.
Only half kidding...
Don't take that as a slam as much as reaching out to people I want to make good decisions because I want their nation to be safe and strong.
" : ^ )
Deutcheland ist vorbei* * Germany is over.
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