Posted on 03/13/2016 4:59:51 PM PDT by mandaladon
MAGDEBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Supporters of Germany's new anti-immigration party erupted into raucous celebrations in this eastern city on Sunday after the Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged into three state assemblies with scores that would have been unthinkable only a year ago.
"What an amazing evening," Andre Poggenburg, the AfD leader in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, said in a fiery speech in the state capital Magdeburg, calling the result "brilliant".
"We fought like lions for your land," he said, dismissing Angela Merkel as "the worst chancellor in the history of Germany."
Formed three years ago in opposition to euro zone bailouts, the AfD has morphed into an anti-immigration party over the past year, kicking out its founder and seizing on a record influx of migrants to lure new voters and steal disaffected members of Merkel's conservatives.
On Sunday they had their best day ever, winning a shocking 24 percent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, to become the second-biggest party in the state parliament.
The AfD also performed better than polls predicted in two other states, winning nearly 15 percent in the prosperous southern region of Baden-Wuerttemberg and over 12 percent in Rhineland Palatinate, a western wine-making state.
Exit polls showed that the AfD drew most of their support from people who previously hadn't voted for a party, but they also drew thousands of voters from Merkel's conservatives, particularly in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
While populist, anti-immigrant parties have thrived for years in other European countries, Germany has been an exception, in part because opposition to far-right ideologies runs deep because of the country's Nazi past.
The refugee crisis has changed all that. More than a million migrants entered Germany last year, unsettling many Germans and turning the AfD into a force on the national stage almost overnight.
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That’s not fair to those in this world who are hurting. /s
good. grow a pair, Germany
This is HUGE!
This is going to make people really think.
Maybe immigration is NOT a good thing.
Duh!
Don’t read much into it. It was one merely state elections and Merkel and her ilk have survived such minor challenges in the past.
Worst chancellor covers some pretty extreme territory no matter how much the Germans would like the world to forget the 1930’s.
Who possibly could have foreseen this development?
This is what happens when you bring millions of savages into your country, force the citizens to welcome them, make the citizens pay for them, to shut up when the savages leave bodily waste in public pools, and the savages rape your women, and you forcibly put down protests.
We’ll see how it goes. I suspect we’ll be back in Germany. Again. Pulling their bacon out of the fire.
We should have annexed the American sector of Germany after WW2. I’m sick of American lives being lost over Germany and our getting nothing in return.
Good to see the German folks taking their country back.
Time for that here as well.
“...we’ll be back in Germany, again, pulling their bacon out of the fire.”
Since Merkel banned sausage couple of weeks ago I’ll guess bacon is not far behind. That was probably the last straw for some. The Islamists tried to get beer banned in October.
Yep. Really ironic when you think about it. So how is importing the nearest thing we have to Nazis today atone for the past sin of supporting Nazis?
Why so negative? She is the best chancellor in the history of IS.
What a day! First Seattle learns why raising the wage to $15 an hour results in people losing their jobs and Germany discovers why welcoming fake refugee / really Muslim terrorists is a really bad thing...
Ahhh liberal heads must be exploding everywhere...
When was Germany ever far right? They have been left, extremist homicidal insane left, and postwar normal left.
“Germany has been an exception, in part because opposition to far-right ideologies runs deep because of the country’s Nazi past.”
Nazis, far right? Blatantly pervasive homosexuality, dopers, the collective over the individual, rape and mass murder, anti-jewish, euthanasia, anti-intellectual, lead by a non-smoking vegan homosexual zealot....... “right wing” got it.
Hell, this could be Brown University.
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