German elections: Merkel seeks fourth term

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  1. Jazz

    Jazz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Germans vote today, Sunday.
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    It is quite likely that Chancellor Angela Merkel will win a historic fourth term.
    A far-right party might enter parliament for the first time in more than half a century.

    Watch and listen to video here:
    http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/09/24/germany-farm-vote-shubert-pkg-nr.cnn

    Stability is important to the voters.

    Merkel said Europeans can no longer depend entirely on traditional allies and should take their fate into their own hands.

    Good Luck and viel Spass, alte Volksgenossen!:salute:


     
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    Merkel will get the fourth term simply because Germany isn't as free as people are led to believe. Merkel is a globalist whore whose government fully controls the media and the security apparatus. The media is totally one sided and any opposition to her is suppressed in a sophisticated way. In conclusion, everyone informed knew the winner the moment the elections were announced. Merkel wins the fourth term.
     
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  3. Jazz

    Jazz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well, who else is there to vote for? Martin Schulz? Oh Schreck, forget him!
    The AfD, Alternative for Deutschland, is for many too risky and is most likely not endorsed by the Jewish Community in Germany. The Jews already lobbied years ago to have the FPD banned. With Merkel the Jews have no problem; she declared Israel to be Germany's "Staatsraeson".
    You are right, the Germans are not entirely free to do as they would like.
     
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    I'm surprised this treacherous b...h is still alive. What a shame for Germany and Europe!
     
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    Great. I am a big fan of Angela.
     
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    Jazz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Don't know what your are musing about.
     
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    Jazz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    O.k., then all is well!
    I wish the AfD would have come in at second place.
    Not sure, if SPD and AfD could and would go together and form a strong opposition. Likely, it will go the other way... Merkel and Schulz ganging up on AfD.
     
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    Jazz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Oh, I see! Yes, I heard about Merkel's cell phone being bugged by Obama!!:frown:
    And now some German journalists have been spied on. The French complain, too.
    It is an ugly business, the lowest form of distrust. All for the sake of national security! Just like the war on terror - a carte blanche to go anywhere, take and destroy anything. GRRR...
     
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    Here's more:

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/germanys-syrian-refugees-celebrate-merkel-win-fear-rise-201936020.html

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    Germany's Syrian refugees celebrate Merkel win but fear rise of far-right
    Reuters By Joseph Nasr,Reuters 7 hours ago

    By Joseph Nasr

    BERLIN (Reuters) - Syrian refugees rejoiced on Sunday at the news that Angela Merkel had secured a fourth term as German chancellor, but said they were alarmed by the rise of the far-right AfD party, which they feared could push her to tighten asylum rules.

    "We prayed that Merkel would win," said Fatima al-Haidar, a mother of two from Damascus. "Allah answered our prayers. To us she represents wisdom and humanity."

    While Merkel's conservative bloc won most seats in parliament, the result was its worst since 1949 as voters turned en masse to smaller parties.

    The conservatives bled support to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), which entered parliament for the first time as the third-biggest party, cashing in on anger at Merkel's decision to welcome more than 1.3 million refugees.

    "Merkel put her career on the line to help us," said Haidar's 55-year-old husband Ayman. "We want to learn German and contribute to the success of this country through work, simply to prove that she was right and her opponents were wrong."

    Fatima and Ayman found out the election results from their 14-year-old son Zayd, who tuned in to the public broadcaster ZDF on his mobile phone to break the news to his parents and their friends as exit polls came in.

    "When Zayd told us Merkel had won we did a zalghouta," said Roula Mohammad, referring to a tongue trill that Arab women perform during weddings. "We need a wise woman like her in Syria to end the war."

    The Syrian refugees were having dinner at Al Dimashqi, a popular Arab restaurant on Sonnenallee, a long boulevard in Berlin's poor neighborhood of Neukoelln that refugees call "Arab Street" for its abundance of Arabic shop signs.

    The AfD's campaign appealed unashamedly to voters who feel that the influx of mainly Muslim migrants will undermine German culture, asserting that Islamic customs have no place in Germany.

    Merkel's conservatives and their Social Democrat coalition partners in the outgoing government quietly introduced stricter asylum rules last year after losing support to the AfD in regional elections.

    Refugees fear that the AfD's stunning showing of more than 13 percent of the vote on Sunday could spell even tougher immigration rules under the next Merkel-led government.

    "She is less popular because of us," said Nabil Zainaldin, 32, from Aleppo. "We totally understand that Germans are worried. All we can do to reassure them is to be law-abiding citizens. But we are also worried: what will the asylum policy of the new government be?"

    (Additional reporting by Riham Alkoussa; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
     
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    That sounds so touching. I hope Merkel gets to read it, too.
    I don't think the Germans are against proper refugee families, they don't mind accepting and helping them. It is the single marauding blacks who fight and rape. That is worrying them the most. And then, most don't have much education or skills for work either.
    Since I don't live there, I can only repeat what I have picked up here and there. We need Sobo again to tell us all about it.

    The AfD is not against immigration, but rather in measures that can be handled and absorbed and be beneficial for Germany.
    If you ask me, I would say they all should go to the USA, since they are the ones that caused the refugee crisis with their stupid wars. But what else are vassal states good for, but to mop up after the empire!
     
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    Wow, some many experts here, unfortunately that was to be expected.
    So the government fully controls the media, the media is totally one sided, any opposition to her is suppressed in a sophisticated way.
    Yeah, right. One can only shake one's head in disbelief.
     
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    Trouble already!!!
    The AfD is falling apart...

    AfD faced immediate turmoil after the election, with its co-leader announcing that she would not sit with it in the Bundestag. Frauke Petry walked out of a press conference on Monday morning during which the party leadership marvelled at its success, having secured nearly 13% of the vote and 94 seats in the federal parliament.

    Read more here:
    https://www.theguardian.com/politic...anys-far-right-afd-to-address-ukip-conference

    And the Antifa wants to make mincemeat out of the AfD...
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    It is a rough start, but they are keeping a stiff upper lip.
    I hope they will manage to stay united.
     

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