German Elections 2025 - far-right AfD with 20%

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www.theguardian.com

Conservatives win German election but far-right AfD doubles support

Results show CDU/CSU will be largest party but success of Alternative für Deutschland likely to complicate formation of a government
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Huge shift to the far-right, with a clear West-East separation of voters, with the former Soviet Block DDR part voting overwhelmingly for the AfD and the Western BRD part voting the traditional mainstream parties.
Liberals are out, having failed to clear the minimum 5% of votes to get into Parliament.

It's likely that the 3 biggest non-AfD Parties (Conservatives, Social Democrats and Greens) will try to form a coalition that won' require any AfD support.
 
Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz:

"I am communicating closely with a lot of prime ministers, and heads of EU states and for me it is an absolute priority to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible, so that we achieve independence from the US, step by step...

I never thought that I would ever need to say something like that, on television, but after the latest statements made by Donald Trump last week, it is clear, that the Americans — at any case these Americans, this administration — mostly don't care about the fate of Europe one way or another."
 
Quite happy with the result, and with the dampening effect Trump-Musk are beginning to have on the European far-right political scene, even getting Le Pen's folks to actively distance themselves from the Nazi salutes now in GOP vogue. Brexit does something similar for EU support among remaining member states. Thanks, Trumplings, for going full-on food-fight scene from Viridiana. Now so many want to be anything other than being like you.
 
Let's do a comparison.

The US Democrats got 48.3% of the national vote, and are considered massive commie socialist eat-my-tears lib losers by the Putinista Trumpkins.

The German AfD got 20.8% of the national vote, and are celebrated as massive winners by the Putinista Trumpkins.

Seems some people can't count. ;)
 
Hlafordlaes said:
Quite happy with the result, and with the dampening effect Trump-Musk are beginning to have on the European far-right political scene, even getting Le Pen's folks to actively distance themselves from the Nazi salutes now in GOP vogue. Brexit does something similar for EU support among remaining member states. Thanks, Trumplings, for going full-on food-fight scene from Viridiana. Now so many want to be anything other than being like you.
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Let's hope they figure out the lesson every mainstream party has failed to learn for the last thirty years, that pandering to far right policies never results in marginalising far right, just normalising them.

There needs to be something bigger than just not openly engaging with far right parties, there must be policies implemented (better industrial policies, more social mobility, re-enacting human and social rights) which improve peoples' lives generally and properly shut out the far right. Make people have enough of an interest in the status quo and make them well off enough to be secure in it and the far-right will disappear, but politics for too long has been going in the opposit direction.
 
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