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ER Editor: UPDATE – According to Politico, Merz says he’s pushing for a coalition with the Globalist Left SDP —
Merz confirms push for centrist coalition after German election win
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This is a useful article to throw in with the preliminary results from RT below, as it illustrates the problem of who really governs Germany – a coalition, not a winning party. Merkel’s old party won under Friedrich Merz at almost 29% with the AfD taking 21%, but Germans may still end up with a left-leaning coalition nonetheless. Because, gasp, power sharing with the AfD is still off-limits. See —
Message to Germany: “The Left Will Always Have Leverage Over CDU”
Of note:
Bence Bauer, director of the MCC’s Hungarian-German Institute think tank in Budapest told europeanconservative.com:
It is very hard to say that you want a U-turn on migration policies, on nuclear energy, or on woke policies when you are the one who caused the whole problem. Merz faces another dilemma: apart from him and CDU Secretary-General Carsten Linnemann, the bulk of the party’s leadership consists of Merkelists. It is interesting to note that not every CDU lawmaker supported Merz’s anti-migration proposals in the parliament on January 29th while all the AfD MPs did.
The CDU, together with its Bavarian sister party CSU, is on course to win Sunday’s election with about 30-31% of the votes. That will hardly be enough to form a government, posing the question: who will Merz enter into a coalition with?
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As Bence Bauer explains:
If you take AfD out of the equation, as a party that no one else wants to do business with, then the leftist parties, including the SPD, the Greens, and Die Linke, will always have a majority and always have leverage over the CDU. The question is how long will the voters bear another grand coalition with all its nuanced compromises.
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Some tweets —
German election result map is basically the German migrant population map pic.twitter.com/PwQsyZHEpw
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 23, 2025
The German election results won’t change anything.
The establishment parties (CDU and SPD) won’t have enough for a majority, so they will likely include the Greens. This coalition won’t be able to agree on anything.
The AfD got 20% (wants mass deportations), big enough to block… pic.twitter.com/v6NQ1riUYV
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) February 23, 2025
🇩🇪 Final results of the German elections:
Good news: AfD doubled its seats
Bad news: It will be another 4 years of the same for Germany as CDU and SPD will form a coalition
Also, the radical leftists from Die Linke are the most popular party among young people age 18-24 pic.twitter.com/VuCC7074si
— Daily Romania (@daily_romania) February 24, 2025
From Politico. Merz, a globalist/Atlanticist, could have some major skeletons in his closet, which would make him a 2.0 by now under the effect of EO 13818 —
Germany’s Merz vows ‘independence’ from Trump’s America, warning NATO may soon be dead
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Funny business?
It looks like German authorities retaliate against AfD party that was previously endorsed by @elonmusk.
People in the German city of Leipzig report that AfD was removed from the mail-in ballots just days before German election. pic.twitter.com/q9nJntnYVe
— Johnny Midnight ⚡️ (@its_The_Dr) February 18, 2025
VIDEO: German Democracy 😆: Postal votes for @AfD being shredded ahead of federal election 🗳️ pic.twitter.com/fQq0X76omx #Merz #Habeck #Scholz #Deutschland 🇩🇪 #AliceWeidel #EU
— Manchester Chronicle 🐝 (@WithyGrove) February 20, 2025
Food for thought. We have no idea about the veracity of this but invite readers to take a look for themselves. From Veterans Today (VT) —
Members of the German federal government are preparing the largest fraud in modern German history for the upcoming parliamentary elections
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Happily, the AfD achieved their best result yet at close to 21% of the vote.
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Conservatives win German elections – early results
Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz will likely replace Olaf Scholz as chancellor
RT
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and is sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have won the snap elections in the German Bundestag, defeating Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SDP).
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was the second strongest-performing contender and is projected to obtain more seats in the federal parliament than at any time in its history.
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According to preliminary results released by Germany’s top electoral body on Monday, the CDU and CSU together received 28.6% of the votes, which means that CDU leader Friedrich Merz will likely become the next chancellor.
The AfD has received 20.8% of the votes, while the SDP placed third with 16.4% and the Greens came in fourth with 11.6%.
The early election was called last year after the collapse of the ruling ‘traffic light’ coalition made up of the SPD, the Greens, and the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP). FDP leader Christian Lindner pulled his support due to disagreements over the budget. His party received only 4.3% of the votes, prompting Lindner to announce his retirement from active politics.
The AfD performed the strongest in the eastern part of the country, winning elections in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Brandenburg, and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Despite becoming the second-most popular political force across the country, it will be hard for the AfD to enter a government coalition because other major parties consider its policies “extremist” and have ruled out any partnership.
In a post on X on Sunday night, Merz promised to “strive to form a government that would represent the entire German population and would solve the problems of our country.” He expressed hope that Germany will have a new government by Easter.
AfD co-leader and candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel, has thanked the voters. “The AfD was able to double its result. The incredible success makes it clear: citizens want political change,” she wrote on X.
Source
Featured image source: https://apnews.com/article/germany-politics-election-results-afd-merz-4b862dcd150423028cc1ac1e6663cb82
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