
Germany Has Shifted to the Right
Voters in Bavaria and Hesse have severely punished the leftist government in Berlin.
Voters in Bavaria and Hesse have severely punished the leftist government in Berlin.
Federal CDU warns regional counterparts to “keep a maximum distance” from AfD.
AfD polls 12 percentage points ahead of the SPD, which has ruled Brandenburg for the past 30 years.
The German government is reportedly exploring ways to send long-range weapons to Ukraine, even though the majority of the population is against continued arms exports.
Arnold Vaatz, similarly to his colleague Hans-George Maassen, contends the Union parties have “developed into followers who now ape what the Greens, the left-wing parties, and the media they control think up in terms of such rules.”
Angela Merkel successfully transformed the classical-conservative CDU of Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl into a socialist party, and turned the party establishment into a real left-wing establishment.
German taxpayers have paid out a total of €132.8 billion to foreign recipients of Hartz IV social welfare aid since 2010.
Deputy chairman of CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag Thorsten Frei criticized the current asylum system for not only punishing the physically weaker would-be asylum seekers but also those living in societies that are forced to live with the consequences of receiving massive numbers of young men from alien cultures.
AfD MP Petr Bystron said the poll results are “fully in line with the pan-European trend, populist parties are on the rise everywhere.”
The news comes after opinion polls have revealed the AfD to be the most popular political force across the former East German states.