Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has suffered the worst defeat in its history, failing to win a single seat in the state election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as the Right-wing AfD took 38.2% of the vote. The Telegraph has more.
The hard-Right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) took 38.2% of the vote, while the hard-Left Die Linke beat the CDU in mayoral elections in Berlin. Merz is scheduled to address the public on Monday afternoon.
The astonishingly poor result meant that, for the first time, the CDU failed to win enough votes to enter a state parliament in Germany.
Under the country’s voting system, parties that fall below the 5% threshold are not assigned any seats in the next parliament.
Such a scenario was virtually unthinkable for the CDU – the German version of the Conservatives and a mainstay of coalition governments for decades – until Sunday night.
Merz was already facing calls to resign over his party’s poor performance in a previous election in Saxony-Anhalt this month, where the CDU lost swathes of support to the AfD.
According to DPA, a German news agency, the CDU held a crisis meeting about the results on Sunday evening, with the talks descending into “verbal clashes”.
Another crisis meeting later that night was attended by seven CDU state leaders, some of the most senior figures in the party, and was said to have lasted for nearly two hours.
Christian Gräff, a former CDU state MP and the Chairman of the Berlin Mittelstand Union, called for Merz’s resignation over the election results.
“Merz has got to go. He can’t do executive work and he can’t do communication,” he posted on X.
He later told the DPA news agency: “I believe that the people in Germany want reforms. Merz lacks the skills and communication abilities to implement them.”
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Hard Right populist AfD?
One day it’s Far Right, others Hard Right, next Extreme Right then “literally” it’s a troupe of reincarnated Hitlers.
Like Trump/MAGA in USA, Reform UK, Groupe Rassemblement National in France they are Parties to the Right of the supposed centre of the political spectrum.
Hard, Far, Extreme are pejoratives intended to imply they are all “literally” Fascist/Nazis and the end of times.
”Populist” is an empty signifier. It has no clear meaning other than people we don’t like and think differently to the entrenched ruling class and their acolytes.
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Hard Right populist AfD?
One day it’s Far Right, others Hard Right, next Extreme Right then “literally” it’s a troupe of reincarnated Hitlers.
Like Trump/MAGA in USA, Reform UK, Groupe Rassemblement National in France they are Parties to the Right of the supposed centre of the political spectrum.
Hard, Far, Extreme are pejoratives intended to imply they are all “literally” Fascist/Nazis and the end of times.
”Populist” is an empty signifier. It has no clear meaning other than people we don’t like and think differently to the entrenched ruling class and their acolytes.