Germany elections

[special]

AfD on the second place

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckg82wwrwy6t

Germans are going to the polls to vote for a new federal government after the three-party coalition fell apart at the end of last year, prompting a snap election
Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old conservative leader, is in pole position to become Germany's next chancellor
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is poised to become the second biggest political force, ahead of Olaf Scholz's centre-left party
Some 59.2 million Germans are eligible to vote, and while millions already have by post, polls indicate as many as 20% were undecided ahead of election day

[Acer]

Abandoned and scolded by the US, they look to their own strongmen to lead them forward. There's a lesson here somewhere.

[Speedy]

Acer wrote:
Abandoned and scolded by the US, they look to their own strongmen to lead them forward. There's a lesson here somewhere.

Yes, appeal to the xenophobes. Same as in our last election. Bigotry is big everywhere.

[Lemon Drop]

GERMAN ELECTIONS concluded.

The 2 exit polls:

CDU-CSU (conservatives):
28.7-29%
AFD (far-right): 19.6-19.8%
SPD (social-dems, center-left): 16.0-16.4%
Greens (center-left): 12.3-13.3%
Die Linke (left): 8.6-8.9%
BSW (left): 4.7%-5%
FDP (free-market right): 4.9%-5%


The only question is what sort of coalition the conservatives will need to make, certainly with the AFD and probably one other.

[special]

I hope NOT with AfD

[vision63]

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, you name it. They're like guns. They can shoot you some dinner and an innocent bystander at the same time.

[mrbigstuff]

They are the problem, no matter which side you are on.

[cbelt3]

World Emperor wannabe Musk, on the high from his successful takeover of the USA, has been sticking his non functional weenie into politics in Germany and the UK, supporting Neo Nazi organizations like some sort of 1960’s comic book villain.

Stay vigilant. The Fourth Reich is rapidly taking over the world

[vision63]

cbelt3 wrote:
World Emperor wannabe Musk, on the high from his successful takeover of the USA, has been sticking his non functional weenie into politics in Germany and the UK, supporting Neo Nazi organizations like some sort of 1960’s comic book villain.

Stay vigilant. The Fourth Reich is rapidly taking over the world

People need to wake up. The world's richest man keeps getting richer and richer and more powerful.

[rgG]

I read an article that says the other German parties won’t make a coalition with the far right.
They described it as the Firewall against Germany repeating history, so to speak.

Here is an article about it, but not the exact one I read. Unfortunately you won’t be able to read the entire article as I don’t have a subscription to the NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/world...l-afd.html