The regional leader of the pro-border-control AfD party said his faction was “the clear winner of the evening” after the legacy centrist-globalist Christian Conservatives and Social Democrats recorded their worst results ever in Lower Saxony.
Provisional results show support for the sovereigntist, Eurosceptic, border-control Alternative for Germany (AfD) tripled in Sunday’s Lower Saxony elections to select hundreds of directly-elected mayors and other representatives.
Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) has filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Friedrich Merz over remarks he made in the Bundestag on September 9.
In the budget debate Merz said the party’s “remigration” slogan was “nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin colour”.
The AfD parliamentary group says that is a defamatory insult.
German economic history can be traced through its traditional family businesses. Many of them survived wars, crises, and technological revolutions. But many of them now have little left with which to resist the destructive force of environmentalism and degrowth ideology.
Anyone searching through German economic history will eventually come across the name Coatinc Company.
The company from Siegen is, as far as the surviving documents show, the oldest German family business still in existence. Originating in 1502 from an iron-processing operation, it developed over more than five centuries into an internationally established specialist in surface finishing and hot-dip galvanizing.
Non-Germans are massively over-represented among suspects in murder and manslaughter crimes in the German state of Bavaria, police data uncovered by the AfD has found.
Murder and manslaughter are on the rise in Bavaria, the conservative south-eastern German state, and new police statistics suggest the state’s comparatively small but growing migrant population is a contributing factor.
The lead candidate for Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund, has tied a potential Israeli arms manufacturer’s arrival in Sangerhausen to the party’s planned large-scale removal of foreigners required to leave Germany.
He said the Israeli company could be used in some capacity for a “remigration and deportation offensive.”
Just weeks after far-left candidates won surprising victories in Democrat primaries in Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Colorado and New York City for the Senate and House in the United States, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won a widely predicted victory in the election last Sunday for the legislature of Sachsen-Anhalt, one of Germany’s 16 federal states.
A political earthquake would be too weak a description of the shock caused by last Sunday’s election in the small German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The governing Christian Democrats (CDU) won a measly 17.2 per cent – down nearly 20 points from the previous election – while the right-populist AfD came out on top with 43.8 per cent.
The meltdown by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz after his own globalist-right party was all but annihilated in recent local elections continues apace, but respected German historians warn his claim that the sovereigntist AfD want to commit “ethnic cleansing” is factually incorrect and risks “adding fuel to the fire” of a febrile political scene.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has clashed with AfD leader Alice Weidel in parliament, calling her party a “destructive force” with a migration policy that amounts to “ethnic cleansing” for skilled workers.
Merz was addressing the Bundestag in the aftermath of the anti-immigration party’s sweeping victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt where it won almost 44% of the vote, while the chancellor’s conservatives saw their vote halved.
Weidel told MPs that voters had shown that Merz’s coalition with the centre left was a total failure and his time was up.
Saxony-Anhalt could become the clearest example this Sunday of how far the strategy of Germany’s legacy parties to contain Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has ended up reshaping the country’s entire political system.
Polls put the party at around 40%, well ahead of the CDU, which comfortably won the 2021 regional election. The gap is now too large to dismiss the AfD as a marginal protest vote. The party is clearly on course to become the leading political force in the state.
This weekend I learned two things about Germany.
The first is Hitler did not invent the autobahn. The summer before Hitler’s election, Konrad Adenauer, Oberbürgermeister (mayor) of Cologne, opened the first autobahn. In fact, the Nazis opposed building autobahns until they took office and realized that it was a good boondoggle—staatliche Großarbeitkickbackerei—to reward patrons with no-show jobs and no-bid contracts.
If there was any doubt radical change is under way in Germany, it was answered this weekend by voters in Saxony-Anhalt.
For the first time since the infamous Nazi epoch, a far-right party has claimed victory in a state election. The win by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party – designated an extremist group by domestic intelligence agencies in numerous German states – has shaken the political foundation of Europe. It represented an irrevocable repudiation of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and of mainstream parties more generally.
Supporters of mass immigration seem a little antsy of late.
The hard-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is seeking a pact with Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats so it can form a regional government.
The AfD has been trapped by a firewall policy in which Germany’s centrist parties refuse to co-operate with it at the state or federal level. But after a sweeping election victory on Sunday night, cracks are starting to appear.
Rebels in the German chancellor’s party want to lend their support to the hard-Right AfD, The Telegraph understands.
Preliminary results from the Sunday vote in Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany show the landslide win of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) securing around 43.8% of the vote, earning 39 seats in the 83-member state parliament. Although not an outright majority, the result may be the beginning of the end of the monopoly on power of mainstream establishment forces in Germany.
Official results are expected on Monday night, but the power dynamics are already clear: a huge win for the AfD, and devastating news for Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Voters have clearly expressed their dissatisfaction with the CDU that has governed the region for 24 years: the Chancellor’s party securing only 17.2% of the votes. Merz is expected to discuss the results with his cabinet today and gather a crisis panel in the capital.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is on the verge of leading a state government for the first time in history. According to the preliminary results announced on Monday morning, the AfD achieved 43.8 per cent in the state election of Saxony-Anhalt, more than doubling their voter share compared to the previous election in the state in 2021.
Meanwhile, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party of chancellor Friedrich Merz, lost 20 per cent and fell to 17.2. The election result from Sunday is not only damaging to the CDU, but to all historically established parties in Germany. They might not be able to prevent the AfD from governing for the first time.
This "far right" leader Alice Weidel is a lesbian with Sri Lankan-born partner who was adopted as an infant by a Swiss couple. https://t.co/yetAumntUB
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