Posted on 09/01/2024 8:33:00 PM PDT by dangus
If you follow international politics, you've probably heard that the anti-immigration the Alliance for Deutchland (AfD) won the most votes in Thuringia, Germany and very nearly won in Saxony. Commentators have been suggesting that the Christian Democrats will have to choose between aligning with AfD, or once again throwing power to the leftists. Given that the Christian Democrats are basically establishment Republicans, you can guess the choice they keep making. But the mainstream Left has given the Christian Democrats an interesting problem: they don't have the votes. You see, another socialist party has emerged, and taken enough votes to prevent a Christian Democrats-socialist or even Christian Democrats-Socialist-Green alliance.
This party has the positions that supposedly make the AfD unappealing: they are anti-immigration and Euroskeptic. But they are also socialists and Soviet lovers. So after a couple decades of complaining that the AfD is Nazi, the Christian Democrats' only option is to align with actual nationalist-socialists, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice (BSW).
It's probably unfair to call the BSW Nazis, but certainly not as unfair as calling the AfD Nazis. There are some more problematic characters among the AfD, due to the fact that they've never had responsibility to govern. But in general, the AfD is for a smaller, constrained government. The BSW shares most of the Nazi party positions outside of their present disavowment of violence... which is a little suspect, given their occasional justification of the invasion of Ukraine.
Anyway, to stick just to the data, here are the election results:
Thuringia, 88 seats; 45 needed for a majority:
AfD, 32 seats
Christian Democrats, 23 seats
BSW, 15 seats
Die Linke (The Left), 12 seats
Socialists (Traditional left-wing powerhouse), 6 seats.
The Greens and the socially-left, economically-libertarian Free Democrats go extinct.
Saxony, 120 seats, 61 for majority
CDU, 41 seats
AfD, 40 seats
BSW, 16 seats
Socialists (traditional Left) 10 seats
Green, 7 seats
Die Linke/The Left, 5 seats
Free Voters, 1 seat
Note that the AfD could create a coalition government with BSW in Thuringia, but not Saxony.
BSW is a new party that splii off from Die Linke Which is the former Communist party. Them and AfD would be strange bedfellows and I doubt BSW would do it. No CDU will line up with a bunch of leftists or try to govern without a majority. AfF’s only way into political power is to win an outright majority.
Fascinating data
All I want to know which party is going to start wearing the cool uniforms and start with all the heel clicking?
That ended in 1990 when East Germany dissolved
On the surface this sounds encouraging. Maybe people are waking up to the down-side of the muslim invasion and socialism in general. Time to show the camel-jockeys the door and vote the socialists/communists out of power.
They’d be massively strange bedfellows. I didn’t mean to say they MIGHT form a coalition government, just that they COULD, as opposed to a CDU-Socialist coalition, as has run Germany a lot lately, which would be impossible.
Aw shucks. Well, how about the cool marching music?
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