Posted on 09/24/2017 8:22:07 PM PDT by oblomov
Angela Merkel has won a fourth term, but official results have shown she'll have a "tough road" for coalition talks. While the CDU remains the largest party, the far-right AfD will be the third biggest political force.
With all 299 constituencies reporting, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party the CSU came out ahead in Germany's national election on Sunday, with 33 percent of the vote. Rival Social Democrats (SPD) led by Martin Schulz tumbled to a mere 20.5 percent, while the Green and Left parties remained about the same as they did in 2013, each with 8.9 and 9.2 percent, respectively.
The only real success stories of the night were for the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). After failing to make the 5-percent hurdle to enter the Bundestag last time around, the FDP managed a 10.7 percent to cement its comeback.
As for the populist AfD, a remarkable showing of 12.6 percent means that Germany will have a far-right party in parliament for the first time in more than half a century.
Although these results mean the CDU will remain Germany's largest party, it still represents a substantial loss for the conservatives, who managed 41.5 percent in 2013. With a three-way coalition looking to be the likely solution to avoid a minority government, Merkel is about to begin a far less stable administration than in her past three terms.
"We had hoped for a better result," Merkel told a clapping but subdued crowd at party headquarters in Berlin. Later, she spoke of the "tough weeks ahead," for the CDU, and promised to recover votes lost to the AfD...
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I see what he did there! :-D
I think you misunderstood my sarcasm. I’m not agreeing with German corporations/gov’t here at all.
I should have written [added text]:
...”The corporations have a voracious need for cheap immigrant (slave) labor. To Hell with the cares of the German people and the German cultural suicide that this is causing [SO THE CORPORATIONS SAY...].”
It’s not nonsense at all. That’s how the German corporatists think. They want cheap labor.
And the millions of aging pensioners also want cheap labor to power the economy so they get their pension pmts in the future.
I’m sure some of them are unemployable, but many will work. Yes, it will be a net loss to the economy in many ways, including culturally, but they just want their pensions and their laborers.
I saw a headline yesterday, I think, the Jews in Germany were worried about the rise of the AfD. Didn’t read the article, but, if the headline was consistent with the substance of the article, they are some dumb mofo’s.
Worried about a bunch of fellow, Germans, that want the muslim scourge out of their country, but not the ones that have invaded and stated that their mission in life is to eradicate Jews.
I would also agree that German corporations want cheap labor, but they need skilled labor. The current crop of invaders simply does not fit any need. Training? Perhaps a few can be trained, but that will take years...
About Petry - from what I’ve heard, she is simply a narcissist (a.k.a. psycho bitch) and could not stand that two other candidates were chosen to lead. No need for any conspiracy theory.
Good question. I also wonder if behind the scenes manipulation orchestrated by the EU may have rigged the election. How else do you explain the sudden near-landslide success of a no-name lightweight like Macron and a political party that didn’t even exist until last year?
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