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[REGNUM] The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in the state parliament elections in Saxony-Anhalt, slightly exceeding the forecasts of leading German polling agencies and improving its result from the 2021 elections by 23%.
Meanwhile, the region's ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which received 37.1% of the vote in 2021, suffered one of its heaviest defeats in history yesterday, finishing with 17.2%.
The AfD's success is due, in part, to the widespread mobilization of those who typically don't participate in elections. On Sunday, approximately 80% of all eligible voters cast their ballots.
That’s practically a totalitarian society number, yet it was entirely voluntary. People feel strongly. If only the CDU had addressed the issues, they could have swept the field.
According to the research group Wahlen, approximately 42% of Alternative for Germany voters did not participate in the previous state parliament elections.
Judging by the haggard faces of the political commentators and the sour expression of the CDU Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt, Sven Schulze, who was forced to mumble words of congratulations to the AfD in a trembling voice, emphasizing that the democratic choice of citizens must be respected, whatever it may be, one might have thought that Germany had been rocked by a political cataclysm of unprecedented proportions.
Akin to what paralyzed the United States ten years ago after Donald Trump's first presidential victory, with the howls of liberal youth in Times Square, protests at Ivy League universities, and the demonstrative departures of Hollywood stars to Canada.
Indeed, one can speak of a demoralizing defeat for the established political parties in Germany. The people of the region have truly said a resounding "no!" to the political mainstream, primarily the Chancellor's party, which holds power in both Berlin and Magdeburg.
On the eve of the elections, the leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund, intoxicated by optimistic forecasts, refused to hear anything other than the creation of a single-party government with an absolute majority, which he would be able to form after a resounding victory. Although he emphasized on television that "as a democrat, I will always extend a hand to all forces that want to achieve a fundamental change in this country."
Meanwhile, the "tactical voting" campaign launched in the systemic media has yielded results. The essence of this technique is as follows: a vote is cast for any "democratic" party balancing on the edge of the 5% threshold in the region—for example, the Greens or the SPD.
If they had not received 5% of the vote, the losers' votes would have been distributed among the winners - and the AfD would then have received enough mandates to govern alone.
The SPD, however, received 9.3%, while the Greens received 8.9%, thus depriving the Alternative for Germany of any chance of a single-party government. However, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW)—a formally left-wing party whose political platform, however, overlaps with that of the right-wing winners—had an unexpectedly successful showing.
The AfD and BSW coalition is gaining enough votes to form a governing coalition. The BSW has already officially announced that it does not rule out such a collaboration, but has added, rather fervently, that it prefers a non-partisan candidate "from the church or civil society" as the Minister-President leading the state government.
Sharing power in the Magdeburg state parliament with someone else would mean the AfD would be unable to fully implement its own election program. For the ambitious Sigmund, such an option would likely be unacceptable, but the decision will be made not only by him, but by the party's federal leadership.
Perhaps he's counting on finding a few CDU MPs who will individually defect to him. However, to pull off such a move, Sigmund needs time, which the leadership isn't giving him.
According to party insiders, Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla are insisting that the leader of the Saxony-Anhalt branch demand the AfD's right to form a government and stand as a candidate in the elections.
Another possible strategy for Sigmund to come to power at the head of a majority government is to dissolve the state parliament with the help of the BSW after the second round of an unsuccessful minister-president election (this is constitutionally permissible in Saxony-Anhalt), thereby attempting to secure a majority in new elections. However, it's far from certain that such a strategy will find support among the party's top leadership.
The AfD has achieved success not only in most constituencies in Saxony-Anhalt but also across all social groups: although it remains more popular among men than women, and among blue-collar workers than among those with higher education, these differences are narrowing.
Moreover, the party is credited with significant competence in various issues: according to Wahlen, citizens trust it most in solving problems in Saxony-Anhalt in areas such as economics and education.
It's worth noting that even if the AfD gains sole power in the region, governing Saxony-Anhalt will be a very difficult task for the party. The coffers of one of Germany's poorest federal states are empty. The region's debt amounts to nearly €25 billion, with approximately €11,500 per capita—one of the highest in the country. So, the scale of the protest vote is, on the one hand, not surprising.
If they can cut spending on migrant colonists, if only by such people moving to more welcoming areas of Germany, that would make a difference. If the level of criminality goes down as a result, the voters very likely will count it as a win, even if other goals are not met because the federal government is playing silly games.
On the other hand, it is also certain that the federal center, controlled by AfD opponents, will continue the policy of stigmatizing the “right-wing extremist party” and will actively put spokes in its wheels in order to demonstrate to the electorate the inconsistency of “right-wing radical” ideas.
President Trump’s opponents got a lot of blame for stymying so many of his promises, because they boasted about it, rather than him being entirely blamed for failure to execute.
Although party leader Chrupalla has already rushed to declare that the Alternative for Germany intends to seek a restoration of relations with Russia after winning the elections in Saxony-Anhalt, the state government in Magdeburg has no practical levers of influence on Germany's foreign policy.
Just concentrate on the German version of potholes and restoring law and order, guys. When you master those, then you can think about bigger issues.
State governments are not authorized to pass laws and regulations that directly contradict federal law. If the AfD were to form a governing coalition, it would be able to amend school policy and rein in the overzealous regional branch of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, with which the party has long had a tenuous relationship.
In short, it's too early for German liberal democracy advocates to throw tantrums (which, incidentally, has rarely stopped them).
Heh.
The unpopular but ambitious Federal Chancellor will not resign.
No one at the federal level intends to lift the "firewall" prohibiting cooperation with the AfD for established political forces. And the right-wing party's prospects outside Saxony-Anhalt are far more limited.
We’ll see. Success breeds success, as they say. Even if they don’t win more elections (Mecklenburg and Berlin are next on September 20th), this is a perfect chance to show what they can do, which will impact all elections between now and federal elections in 2029.
But the symbolism of the public humiliation of the CDU, and with it the entire political center of Germany with Friedrich Merz at its head, should not be ignored.
Moreover, the Chancellor himself acknowledges this, stating on September 7 that his alliance “suffered a dramatic defeat in the elections, which marks a profound turning point for the party.
One can only hope they learn the right lessons from this instead of the wrong ones. We pray for Germany, as we do for all.
The "far right" party is headed by a lesbian feminist with a wife from Sri Lanka? https://t.co/s1Ft036Y6I
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Also just in from Germany, Volkswagen will close a car plant in Osnabruck next year, and sell it to Rafael to build missile systems.
( ht Instapundit)
In response to the statement, “Anyone who acts on their homosexuality faces a prison sentence,” he said, “We should do that in Germany, too!”
“I wouldn’t condemn anyone who sets fire to an occupied asylum seekers’ shelter.”
“We should form an SA and clean things up!”
“We must attack and abolish the print media and the public broadcasting propaganda machine.”
“Burning refugee shelters is not an act of aggression.”
“We differ from the NPD primarily in our middle-class support base, not so much in our platform.”
“The big problem is that Hitler is portrayed as the absolute embodiment of evil.”
“Shoot that scum or beat them back to Africa.”
“After all, we now have so many foreigners in the country that another Holocaust would be worth it.”
“I want a civil war so badly—and millions of deaths. Women, children. I don’t care. It would be so wonderful. I want to piss on corpses and dance on graves. SIEG HEIL!”
“We have to proceed very peacefully and thoughtfully, adapt if necessary, and butter up our opponents, but when the time finally comes, we’ll line them all up against the wall. (…) Dig a pit, throw them all in, and cover them with slaked lime.”
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Congrats to the AfD in its massive victory in Sachsen-Anhalt! Nice to see much of the CDU support be swept into the dust bin.
All vile, European Conservative, I agree. But the mainstream political parties appear determined to not enforce fixes of the migrant/Moslem colonist problem, leaving those voters with children in the school systems and those otherwise unable to avoid the more vicious of them with no alternative. Changing the rules on paper is all very nice, but until the voters see mass numbers of the vile and vicious leaving the country, they won’t believe it’s happening. Up til now, informing the colonists that their application has been finally rejected has just led to them joining the criminal side of the economy or grabbing a knife or car and running amok, shouting “Allahu akhbar!”
That kind of thing is what led to Donald Trump (and ever more MAGA politicians among the Republicans) being elected thrice.
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^ Perhaps some introspection as to why current policies and positions make such "extreme" positions viable. I suspect it's because too many objections have been "shaddup, they explained". Want to reverse AfD? Be better at representing REAL Germans than EU/Islamonaut Colonists!
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09/08/2026 18:37 Comments ||
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So I ask you once again, EC, how much traction would AfD have gained if the likes of Merkel and Merz hadn't let millions of Africans and Middle Easterners into your country?
I ask you, What did you think would happen?
And by the way, how much better would your economy be doing if you weren't making war against Russia? That was Hitler's biggest mistake and yet you did not learn from it.
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“I want a civil war so badly—and millions of deaths. Women, children. I don’t care. It would be so wonderful. I want to piss on corpses and dance on graves. SIEG HEIL!”
Your biggest fear should be that it's too late to prevent a civil war and you might lose it.
[Cynical Publius via X] I keep coming back in my mind to all of the "conspiracy theories" that have come true since 2016.
I have told friends in the past: "The more you see, the more you see."
It’s a delicate balance to be distrusting of most things without wandering into paranoia. I often believe the biggest damage that has been done to the country since 2016 is that anyone who is even slightly politically aware is now distrustful of everything, and I cannot say I blame them.
The problem is, not everything is a conspiracy. Some things are the result of mere incompetence. Other things actually are what they appear to be. Some other things are, in fact, deep, dark government conspiracies.
Having said that, I know that our nation’s recent history does warrant a sense of paranoia. Consider the things we now know to be true; below is a list of former "conspiracy theories" that we were right about all along:
1. The "Trump/Russia Collusion" hoax was a complete fabrication and a product of overt coordination between the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DOJ/FBI. It was literally a coup attempt and remains probably the worst political scandal in U.S. history.
2. The Mueller Inquisition went forward even though the entire team knew the issues at the heart of it all were outright fabrications. Mueller’s team’s actual objective was to make it very difficult for Trump to enact his agenda in his first term—that was the real reason for the investigation's existence.
3. The first Trump impeachment was set up via illegal manipulation of whistleblower rules specifically for purposes of allowing a "whistleblower" to go after Trump based on hearsay alone. (And let’s not forget that Trump literally did nothing wrong and it was a perfect phone call, plus the impeachment was genuinely an attempt to coverup the Biden family’s role in preventing a thorough investigation of Hunter’s Ukrainian employer.)
4. COVID almost certainly came from a lab in Wuhan, China, and that’s what the CIA non-publicly believed while all the time we were being called racist conspiracy theorists for believing just that. Now we know.
5. The COVID vaccine was largely untested and the assurances that it was almost 100% effective and safe were outright lies that the CDC and the vaccine manufacturers knew were lies but peddled anyway.
6. January 6th was a Nancy Pelosi set-up that included a pre-planned "insurrection" narrative to be immediately peddled by the Democrat/Media Complex on January 7th. She even had her "filmmaker" daughter there to chronicle the "story" she invented and fostered herself.
7. Hunter’s laptop really was Hunter’s laptop, it was not "Russian disinformation," and the entire mass media suppressed all reporting on those facts so Biden could get elected.
8. Voting laws such as "No voter ID required," mail-in ballots, ballot drop boxes, weeks of early voting and "ballot harvesting" all are logically and verifiably practices that reduce election integrity. However, these laws are purposely and specifically designed to make fraud detection virtually impossible.
9. Non-governmental organizations have been the U.S. shadow government, pushing agendas the electorate specifically rejected, and they used a sort of NGO pseudo-money laundering scheme to hide who their true donors were, plus they got tax dollars to spread their woke hate.
10. USAID was a front for using taxpayer dollars to peddle woke policies in un-woke nations, and in many cases funding went to Democrat-run NGOs who received preferential award treatment.
11. An enormous portion of our tax dollars go to fund Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security fraud.
12. Congress is swarming with sex offenders, and we’re not supposed to ask questions.
13. The Southern Poverty Law Center was funding actual hate groups like the KKK, and the 2017 Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally was coordinated and paid for, at least in part, by the SPLC. The SPLC basically is the fire department that commits arson.
14. The entire United States government (including the U.S. military) weaponized the idea that "white supremacy" was the greatest threat to national security. This was based almost exclusively on reports from the SPLC, who were themselves funding marginalized "white supremacy" movements, thereby creating the threat they claimed to oppose.
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I said at the top: "The more you see, the more you see."
There are two problems with this.
First, we see so much that we become numb to it. Any one of the above list in years past would have been the scandal of the decade. But nowadays we are numb to it. We should not be. Our outrage must be real and constant.
Second, so many bad things have emerged from the shadows that it is increasingly easy to become paranoid about ALL things. Not all things related to government are a hoax or a diabolical secret. The more we see, the more we see—but we cannot also hallucinate, since to do so weakens and discredits our cause.
We must be ever vigilant, ever alert, but always thinking clearly. Realize too that there are influencers on the Right who will peddle false flag hoaxes as a way to discredit us in the times we really do uncover dirt.
It is always an information war, and in war clear-headedness is often the deciding factor in victory.
Let’s all be aggressively outraged and clear-headed, please.
Discernment matters.
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