Ordinary Germans have had enough.

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MATT GOODWIN

The German election results are in.

The left-wing coalition government has been turfed out, abandoned by the working class voters they betrayed.

The centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have the most votes and the most seats in the Bundestag, but fewer than in previous victories.

Voters don’t want the left but they also don’t trust the centre-right party which first opened Germany’s borders to millions of refugees, either.

At the same time, astonishingly, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the national-populists, have doubled their share of the vote and finished in second place.

It is a truly seismic moment in German and indeed European politics, providing further evidence for what we have long argued in this newsletter —that national populism is not only here to stay but reflects an ongoing ‘realignment’ of Western politics which is pushing rising numbers of voters away from the established liberal consensus into the arms of parties that are mainly critical of mass uncontrolled immigration, broken borders, globalisation, and the ongoing destruction of Western nations..

Remarkably, the AfD has achieved this despite enormous opposition. They’ve been labelled fascists. They’ve been derided as Nazis. They’ve had the media all but openly campaign against them. They’ve had every other party condemn them.

But still, the German people have still voted for them in record numbers.

Not just in their strongholds in Eastern Germany, where the AfD is now the strongest force of all, but in the west too, where working class strongholds in the Ruhr and Rhineland-Pfalz are now also turning AfD blue.

Not just with older voters but with younger ones. And not just with the fed-up but with first time voters, too.

As in France, Italy, Sweden, Austria, America and elsewhere, in other words, the coalition of voters that is rallying behind the AfD is far broader and more stable than many pundits who talk lazily about “angry old white men” would have you believe.

Why? I’ll tell you why.

Because as in these other democracies, ordinary, hardworking, tax-paying patriotic German people have had enough.

They’ve had enough of their country’s completely broken asylum system which leads to a 19 year old Syrian asylum seeker returning the generosity offered to him by stabbing a Portuguese tourist in the neck just next to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, a place where nobody would have imagined there would one day be violence.

They’ve had enough of seeing their borders thrown wide open so the whole world can take advantage of them, from the 93-year-old Turkish woman who became a German citizen despite not being able to understand basic German questions to the €153 billion of welfare money that has been spent on foreigners since 2010, even as the country’s infrastructure budget collapsed.

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They’ve had enough of a treacherous political class who invited one million people into their safe country, in 2015, delivering mass sexual assaults in Cologne, terror attacks, and seemingly weekly murders by Islamist asylum seekers.

Of kindergarten trips to the local park which end with a two-year old boy and a 41-year-old father stabbed to death by an Afghan asylum seeker.

Of a two-year-old girl and her mother run over and killed by a car driven by an Afghan asylum seeker who claimed he was doing it for Islam.

They’ve had enough of small towns being terrorised by migrants, like the Moroccan who committed 25 crimes in three months.

For ten years he terrorised the small town in Thuringia, with neither the town nor local district able to get rid of him. When they finally deported him, he found his way back in just one week and threatened to blow up a police station.

They’ve had enough of the ridiculous net zero policies which have crippled Germany’s industries the working classes once relied on for the good jobs that used to define the German economy.

Of politicians who prioritise climate change over their lives, planning to ban all gas and oil boilers, forcing the people to replace them with expensive heat pumps that only the rich, electric-car driving Green voters can afford.

They’ve had enough of a welfare system where almost half of all welfare recipients don’t even have a German passport.

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They’ve had enough of leaders who blubber when they’re rightly told off by Americans for strangling free speech and failing to uphold the values of Western civilisation.

They’ve had enough of politicians who change the law so they can sue ordinary people who dare to say rude things about them online, with one minister suing 800 people for up to 3,000 Euros for the crime of daring to call him stupid online.

They’ve had enough of woke laws, which let men with penises demand the right to join a gym class for women with only one changing room and one shower, on the strength of nothing more than a single form at the local civil registry to ‘prove’ they are really a woman now.

Of far-left extremists who beat people up for being right-wing and then declare they are women, with the media falling over themselves to respect their pronouns.

And they’ve had enough of an elite minority imposing their extreme agenda on the forgotten majority, destroying the country the people used to love and call home.

This is why they are now voting for the Alternative for Germany in record numbers —because the liberal establishment has simply left them with no choice to the dreary status-quo, to all the carnage and chaos they see around them today. .

And now they face one final betrayal. Even though the right-wing CDU and AfD got nearly half the vote and over half the seats in Parliament, the CDU will now refuse to go into coalition with the AfD.

Instead, it seems likely they will go for the “Kenya” coalition, with the left-wing SPD and Greens.

What does this mean?

It means there will be no end to the ongoing immigration crisis.

It means there will be no end to the broken borders.

It means there will be no end to the rocketing energy prices.

And it means there will be no end to fixing the abuse of the welfare state by foreigners.

All in the name of maintaining the firewall that is blocking the AfD, and in turn millions of ordinary Germans, from power —from having their entirely legitimate and reasonable concerns addressed.

The only thing a coalition between the centre-right and the left will ensure is that all the mainstream parties will now fail together.

And as that happens, as the German people are forced to watch yet more shocking failures, more chaos, and more managed decline, in the end only one opponent to alp this will be left standing.

The AfD.

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Conservatives win German elections with AfD in Second Place

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.

Published to UK Reloaded  from Europe Reloaded

Featured image: 20minutes.es

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