Political Extremes Are Gaining Ground In Germany As CDU / SDP Coalition Is Hamstrung By Dogma Before It Even Takes Office

 

After this weekend’s federal election, which we reported on yesterday, the east of the country voted for the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD), while the west is dominated by the globalist Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with scattered green and red spots that show where the Greens and the Social Democratic party (SPD) have maintained their left-wing hold on the cities. One third of all voters were undecided just one week before the election. That shows how many voters felt dissatisfied with all the parties.

As anticipated, the CDU won most seats in the Bundestag, gaining 28.5 per cent of the vote, ahead of the AfD on 20 per cent. However, the CDU shouldn’t celebrate yet. The party polled at 33 per cent back when Merkel was in charge. To get under 30 per cent of the vote when the incumbent SDP-Green-FDP government was hated and reviled by an overwhlming majority of voters and turnout was a record 84 per cent really is an underperformance for the party.

The truth is that their leader, Friedrich Merz, is now in a tricky position. He looks likely go into a ‘grand coalition’ with the SPD. As the populist-left BSW failed to reach the 5 per cent threshold to enter parliament, he is less likely to need to partner with the Greens as well, in a so-called ‘Kenya’ coalition after that country’s flag (black-red-green), though amid allegations of widespread voteing fraud BSW leaders are contemplating a legal challenge to the result.
Should the attemt to form a cialition succeed, Merz will struggle to balance his coalition partner’s very different views on the economy and on immigration wich could lead to another problem. The CDU is itself a coalition of the Christian Democrats and a party which only contests elections in the largest federal state, Bravaria, the Christian Social Union (CSU) which is politically more traditionally conservative than the Christian Democrats and may have difficulty working with an SDP leadership that has moved from centre left to so far left it makes China's Chairman Mao look moderate.

However Merz looks likely to be the next Chancellor of Germany. umping the gun a bit as he is not yet confirmed in that position, Merz rejected overtures from President Donald Trump while calling for “independence” from the United States and accusing Washington of election interference.

Going out of his way to piss off Trump after rejecting an alliance with the AfD, the party Trump had endorsed, in favour of a left-wing coalition and to distance himself from Trump and America in general is probably not the best of starts. But like UK's delusional leftie Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Merz seems to be labouring under the misapprehension that he is leader of a major geopolitical power.

“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 U.S., step by step,” Merz said per state broadcaster DW.

“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,” the CDU leader added.

Merz went on to accuse the Trump administration of having committed election interference, likely hinting at key Trump ally Elon Musk, a vocal supporter of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany party.

He said that the “interventions from Washington were no less drastic, dramatic, and ultimately no less brazen, than the intervention that we have seen from Moscow.

But as we said yesterday, it looks as if this show may run for another act or two before the fat lady sings.