Germany elections. SPD implodes, AfD triples, Merz panic
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NRW Election Reveals Catastrophic SPD Decline Amidst AfD Surge in German Industrial Heartland
The recent Northrhine-Westphalia election results signal deep structural problems in German politics, providing a stark demonstration of the SPD’s collapse and the AfD’s success in traditional Western industrial strongholds.
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- The Social Democratic Party (SPD) crashed from its historic dominance in Northrhine-Westphalia (NRW), falling to just 22.5% of the vote.
- The Alternative for Germany (AfD) tripled its support in the region (from 5% to 15%) by winning votes in rapidly de-industrializing areas.
- The election shock forces the German political establishment to confront the likelihood of the AfD becoming the leading national party, pushing them toward extreme measures like banning the party.
- The crisis is exacerbated by suspicious deaths of seven AfD candidates leading up to the vote and foundational policy failures concerning energy and rearmament.
This segment analyzes the seismic shift in the NRW election, Germany's industrial core. Readers gain insight into why the SPD, Germany's oldest party, is facing irreversible decline and how the establishment is reacting to the rise of a credible right-wing opposition in the West.
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Top Comments (10)
EU panics, NATO panics, Starmer panics, Macron panics, Merz panics, but nothing is changing.
If you live in a Democracy that can ban other political parties...you don't live in a Democracy.
Mertz is destroying Germany the same way Starmer is destroying the UK. Both, it turns out are the biggest promoters of Fascism in their respective countries.
If 7 candidates died in the span of 3 weeks let’s say in Russia… just imagine the front pages of newspapers all over the world 😅
As a German living in Germany, I can only say that I suffer for various reasons, but especially from the fact that our politicians are stupid, arrogant, complacent, resistant to advice, and completely out of touch with reality, and not just since Merz.
As a person working in Germany, I can't believe that anyone, really anyone still votes the CDU, SPD, or Greens - their lies and deceiving behaviour towards the voters was, and is unreal! People who vote these people hating parties are MSM watchers, and still brainwashed!
From the Netherlands, full support for the German PATRIOT PARTY! GO AFD!!!
If the German estableshment bans the AfD the unrest will be untolerable.
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Where is democrecy if they can ban the AFD. Democrecy is getting attacked by the EU, they want an authoritarian regime run by the WEF by 2030.
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Top Comments (10)
EU panics, NATO panics, Starmer panics, Macron panics, Merz panics, but nothing is changing.
If you live in a Democracy that can ban other political parties...you don't live in a Democracy.
Mertz is destroying Germany the same way Starmer is destroying the UK. Both, it turns out are the biggest promoters of Fascism in their respective countries.
If 7 candidates died in the span of 3 weeks let’s say in Russia… just imagine the front pages of newspapers all over the world 😅
As a German living in Germany, I can only say that I suffer for various reasons, but especially from the fact that our politicians are stupid, arrogant, complacent, resistant to advice, and completely out of touch with reality, and not just since Merz.
As a person working in Germany, I can't believe that anyone, really anyone still votes the CDU, SPD, or Greens - their lies and deceiving behaviour towards the voters was, and is unreal! People who vote these people hating parties are MSM watchers, and still brainwashed!
From the Netherlands, full support for the German PATRIOT PARTY! GO AFD!!!
If the German estableshment bans the AfD the unrest will be untolerable.
LIKE. SHARE. COMMENT Please join us on LOCALS: https://theduran.locals.com
Where is democrecy if they can ban the AFD. Democrecy is getting attacked by the EU, they want an authoritarian regime run by the WEF by 2030.