Makes sense to me. The CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Not always fully aligned.
See I was so far right in my predictions, I told you she would win.
Despite the shock result, hope for Germany remains as freedom-campaigning centre-right party, the Alternative for Germany, surges to 12.6% rescuing 90 seats from the controlling regime.
The far-left statist socialist parties have appeared to dominate the politics of the economically faltering central European country, which reportedly has a troubled past involving prolonged rule by single domineering figureheads of statist parties. The prosperity and security of the country appears to have come under threat due to aggressive immigration policies that appear to have facilitated what some commentators have described as unprecedented human trafficking, sex offending, and islamofascist terror, in both Germany and similarly statist-dominated France...
German election leaves Macron's big idea in tattersGerman election leaves Macron's big idea in tatters
Angela Merkel’s party might be about to lose the support of its long-standing ally, the Bavarian CSU
It will be weeks, possibly months, before Germany has a government, but the jockeying over Berlin’s policy on the euro has already begun. Among those watching nervously will be France’s Emmanuel Macron, who has staked his presidency not just on his promise to reform the French economy, but also on the idea that doing so will unlock a sustainable future for the single currency area.
Eight years after the euro crisis began, it is still in a state of living death, the blood kept flowing by massive cash infusions from the European Central Bank. Without ECB support, there would be few buyers for Italian debt, and an Italian debt crisis could bring down the whole project. France isn’t in such a bad way but government spending is far too high, it still has an unemployment problem and is plagued by fears that, if it doesn’t reform, it could go the way of Italy and enter stagnation...
(...for the sake of some semblance of "balance")
Thank you for helping me understand the situation because all I have to go on is the BBC reports and they are telling the public that it's 1930's Germany all over again.
Myself I don't believe them, Germany are bigger pussies than the English, it's nothing like the tough 1930's fit race of Germany.
The CDU's main potential coalition partner, the Liberal Democrats, who stand for free enterprise, less regulation on all levels and are opposed to increasing central EU authority, including monetary budgets (of course another "statist, far Left party" ) may well block the CDU's agreement for plans of central EU controlled finances.
The AfD is still a young party which hasn't solidified. Noticable there is a fundamentalist wing, which is content with being attack dogs in the opposition, and a more moderate one, which envisions compromising to take part in a future government coalition - the prominent Petry walked out a day after the election, following incendiary comments by the hard-core rightwing party leader Gauland.
Then you haven't made an effort to read and comprehend.
German election: Just how right-wing is AfD? - BBC News
Yep. New party not very aligned within.
Petry stuns Germany by splitting from AfD party after election success
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 by Guy Chazan
The right-wing nationalist Alternative for Germany suffered its first split just a day after its stunning success in Germany’s elections, as leader Frauke Petry said she would not sit with the party in the Bundestag.
Ms Petry dropped the bombshell at the start of a press conference to mark the AfD’s surprise result in Sunday’s poll. The party, formed only four years ago, won 13 per cent of the vote, and more than 80 parliamentary seats.
But Ms Petry’s move showed the party remains deeply split. The party leader represents the moderate wing of the party: she is opposed by an array of right-wing nationalists who in recent months have gained the upper hand.
https://www.ft.com/content/9bdea88c-...4-74a262e5f3b6
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It's not racism it's that refugees won't go back when the war is over. It's free citzenship to rich European countries. It's not about displacement due to the war, its about making a financial decision. Go to the west and live the dream.
I'm working in Thailand for peanuts and I'm a British Citizen. If I return to the U.K I would recieve little or no help in the way of child support, housing, benifets, hand outs like a refugee does. That's why people Brexited. F- the Euro, F- Merkel and F off refugees. Go home.
Same same Australia, went back, may be Australian, but a non resident, over 6 months away, non tax payer now.
Welfare, Centerlink, find a soup kitcken and a bridge to sleep under, better I had flushed may passport at the airport and looked supid, would have had housing, food and medical.
Australia, fuk it, I would give up my passport tomorrow for a Thai one, at least I could die in a wat, other then in a doorway.
German Election: The AfD Profits from Non-Voters and Merkel Defectors | ZEIT ONLINE
Not going to copy here but worth a read.
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