All politics is local politics — this time, the lessons of this established axiom in America are being learned in Germany. On Sunday, the most right-wing party in the German parliament, the right wing conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party achieved its first electoral breakthrough in 10 years: Its victory in the Sonneberg district of Thuringia marked the first time it has become part of a local government.
REMIX News The significance of this should neither be overestimated nor underestimated. The AfD continues to be seen as a pariah in the German political system. It’s a party with which neither the center-right CDU/CSU alliance nor the parties to its left are willing to form a coalition, neither at the federal nor state level.
At the same time, according to newspaper reports on Monday, the AfD’s breakthrough has caused serious unease and fear among Turkish organizations in Germany. Some are claiming a general crisis of democracy.
Although the AfD is often described simply as anti-Muslim immigration, it is much more than that. Thuringia has the fifth-lowest proportion of Muslim immigrants of the 16 federal states, just a few percent, which is in line with the overall picture in east Germany, even if the proportion has risen sharply in recent years.
And Thuringia is not a backward, underdeveloped region either. Sonneberg on the Bavarian border, for example, is part of the European metropolitan region of Nuremberg. When my photographer colleague and I were there on a reporting trip ahead of the 2021 Bundestag elections, traveling from Gera to Erfurt and Mühlhausen, we encountered many signs of discontent with the Merkel era in a province where the greats of German culture — Bach, Schiller, Herder, Goethe — all made their mark.
The AfD is polling at 19 percent of the vote nationwide, overtaking the leading government party, the Social Democrats, and is in second place behind the Christian Union parties. The forthcoming east German state elections could also confirm that dissatisfaction with the mainstream is making the AfD the most popular party in the eastern federal states.
Although it is only one district in Thuringia, the AfD’s victory in Germany is the latest warning sign for the European mainstream — which despises ordinary citizens — ahead of next year’s EU elections.
In Austria, the like-minded conservative Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) is the most popular, while in France the National Rally is gaining strength. Sunday saw a conservative election victory in Greece, and in July, the ball is set to continue in Spain. Citizens in more and more places are openly fed up with the way Europe is being run today.
The establishment going berserk – now they want to let the AFD winner undergo a check for his attitudes to determine he is mentally unfit to do the job – as they did during the Third Reich and East German commie times.
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article246124092/Thueringen-Innenminister-Maier-verteidigt-Demokratiecheck-von-AfD-Landrat.html
If he ‘fails’ they really intend to nullify the electoral results.
Hoisted by their own petard. 😡
These are the same guys that titled the ‘20% of the electorate’ (= AFD voters) as ‘Brown (=Nazi) fallout’.
Imagine officials in France, the UK or the US hurling such statement in public….
Oh, but they do. Conservative politicians here get called Nazis/Fascists all the time.
Two men stood outside Stockholm’s central mosque on Wednesday and burned a Quran, following the go-ahead given by a Swedish court, to coincide with the beginning of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
“The man who had requested permission for the action, a 30-year-old Iraqi refugee who wants the book banned, tore out pages from the Quran, wiped them on his shoe and set some of them on fire, Swedish public broadcaster SVT said.” Interesting news plus.
Do you have a link/video about that story?
Daily Mail UK Wed June 28, 2023.
On other news, do you know what Italy’s conservatives are up to?
They’ve practically banned a vast majority of Muslim places of worship.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230626-alarm-in-italy-over-law-to-shutter-muslim-prayer-spaces/
BTW, it’s Eid ul zuha today. The Ghulam family is going to spare a goat this year. Doing it out of compassion to the animals – for the first time ever.
This is not to say won’t do it possibly again next year.
What is Eid ul Zuha? I only know about Eid al Fitr and Eid al Adha.
Thanks for saving the gaot.
And thanks for the link.
Eid ul Zuha is the same thing as Eid ul Adha.
Qurban is an essential component. But these days, some progressive Muftis and Imams have started questioning the need to sacrifice an animal.
In Islam, it’s about sacrificing your ego and self. Too many Muzzies have turned this ritual to a SPECTACLE.
That truly is good news.
Wait nothing has been achieved yet because the special demorats want to pull a democracy check on him and then to void the vote and have a new one. This they discuss here in germany were all are free and democracy rules, ha ha. No people they wont let this happen just as merkel took back the vote or as the pres. from the eu was voted for like von der lien, she want even on the ballots but she is president now so what is democracy here in europe. No dont hope then the socialist is back and he wont let us do anything except what he wants. Democracy was yesterday and today its socialistic shit with democracy as a deck name..
Don’t rejoice too early here – it was just a regional occurrence.
That said all the msm are going berserk over it and oddly blame the Christian Democrats instead of the Lefties. Then again Merkel turned them into lefties too who are in fundamental opposition to any common sense.
The AFD has a member run at the time and her numbers grow. The problem is that the institutions are discussing the ban from the afd. These inst. are run from the spd and greens and as we know they are the concurence. Keep an eye on this then i think that they will try to forbitt us the afd and then you see full streets here then the people wont let themselves be offered to the world anymore, they are fed up with the you are quilty shit and you have to save and take in the world and all the bad things that come with this you must tolerate and pay for. The people are fed up with the money taking out of their country and at the same time to see how their country falls apart but gender toilets in africa or gendern in afgahnistan or or the list is long. All this the german pays and at the same time he cant feed his own family and he also has the problem, losing his home then the new climate laws here will end up in home loss. This, all of this has made the paying quiet german mad and now all comes to an end and we the few are ready.You see this playes exactly to what i have been writting, dont it.
As a matter of fact the establishment parties cooperate with the AFD somewhere on the municipal level, particularly in Eastern Germany. In that respect they show more common sense than their federal counterparts.
That said it remains to be seen whether the establishment will be able to push through an entire ban of the only notable opposition.
Finally.
The Muslim invasion is exactly like a cancer, where the cancer cells reproduce, first locally, and then metastasize all over the place.
The Muslim does everything it can to frighten the human and thereby increase control through fear.
Now the Gov is trying to ban that party. Globalist are pigs!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/update-germanys-populist-afd-party-wins-first-country/
Yeah good
I thinknits time for us to accept Far Right proudly. We are not extremists, but why spend our time fighting this name. It sure as hell is better than liberal or far left..
I agree.
I think it’s too late for Europe. The contaminated stock they imported is going to outbreed the healthy stock. Europe is on an unstoppable race to oblivion and a return to the middle ages of the Koran.
Exactly! How long does it take to wake up?? How many have to be murdered and raped??
This exactly i have been writting and saying since 1988 and now im shouting but no one hears or heard me and now its time to pay the bill for the import. This what you write is true but im a man that dont give up and i will make the prize very expensive and yes i have the manpower to do this anytime i want. I wait for the right time and then you all shall see us the few and some will feel us then we are here and have been here for the last 15 years. Yes i saw the storm comming and i did not just sit and wait for the rain.