Posted on 06/06/2021 9:58:13 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The Infratest dimap survey shows the CDU in the lead at 36% support, with the AfD in second place at 22.5%. The Left garnered 11% of the vote, while the Social Democratic Party brought in 8.5%.
The Greens and Free Democratic Party both garnered 6.5% support respectively.
"This is quite a remarkable victory for Angela Merkel's CDU party, which has gained a whopping 6%," DW chief political editor Michaela Küfner said of the exit poll, but noted that the actual results may differ.
"It means the AfD's rise has been halted," she added.
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
Do they use electronic voting machines there?
The German for Dominion is Herrschaft ;)
So the media describes the AfD as “far-right”. Okay.
But are the Greens ever described as “far-left”?
(I think I already know that answer to that. But I’ll ask anyway.)
You have the glorious harbingers of the future on one side, and despicables who shall not be named on the other. SImple as.
Deplorables.
Apparently Germany has a “Left” party, so my observation here doesn’t hold true.
But, in the US, you’ll never even see “left” or “leftist” used to describe anything, nevermind “far left”!
No. Machines were discussed around 2010, and proven to be unsafe.
Left
Socialist Democrats
The “Left” party is basically the descendant of the communist SED (socialist unity Germany party) which ruled East Germany.
A “far right” party wins 1 out 4 voters, and sits in between Merkel’s CDU and coalition partners Greens/SPD.
Serious question. Where do younger CDU voters go when Merkel is gone?
Der Linke, ie the left is what the former Communist party renamed itself to
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