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UPDATED Lee Heidhues 2.24.2025
Despite the ascendency of the far right “Nazi Curious” Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) the Green Party stands tall and will continue to fight for enlightened and progressive values. The Greens will have 85 seats and the surprising Linke (Left) party captured 68 seats in the 630 member Bundestag.
Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 2.24.2025 https://p.dw.com/p/4qxz1
Green party chancellor candidate Robert Habeck has announced his intention to resign from party leadership following their defeat on Sunday.
“Germany needs a stable government and needs it quickly,” he added, allowing that Greens will likely not be a part of that picture.
While saying that he was proud of the election campaign and he stood behind the Greens’ policies, “I know that we still wanted more.”
“This result does not live up to what I was hoping for,” Habeck said, announcing that the Green party would regroup and restructure itself in the coming days and weeks.
Habeck has been vice-chancellor and economy minister under outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and has taken the blame for many of Germany’s recent economic woes. He was also criticized for soliciting gas from oil-rich countries as a leader of the Green Party.
Naturally the Felon Nazi President is taking credit for the victory of German conservatives and the ascendancy of the far right, some would say Neo-Nazi Alternative for Deutschland (AfD).
Excerpted from Politico 2.23.2025
In a post on social media — written entirely in capital letters — Donald Trump did not mention either Frederick Merz or his party by name, referring to “THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY IN GERMANY,” but argued that the country’s swing to the right was part of a political shift that Germany shared with the U.S.
“MUCH LIKE THE USA, THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY GOT TIRED OF THE NO COMMON SENSE AGENDA, ESPECIALLY ON ENERGY AND IMMIGRATION, THAT HAS PREVAILED FOR SO MANY YEARS,” Trump wrote. “THIS IS A GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY, AND FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF A GENTLEMAN NAMED DONALD J. TRUMP. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL — MANY MORE VICTORIES TO FOLLOW!!!”
Excerpted from The Washington Post 2.23.2025
Alice Weidel, the AfD’s co-leader, was triumphant Sunday, suggesting on television that Frederick Merz’s victory would be “pyrrhic” if he had to ally with Social Democrats or the Greens. She also mocked the Christian Democrats for trying to copy the AfD’s far-right manifesto and predicted her party would be waiting in the wings for the collapse of Merz’s “unstable government which will not last the next four years.”
Conservatives Win German Election, But Far-Right “Nazi-Curious” AfD Places Second in Historic Rise – Democracy Now on results of German election.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/24/germany_election_cdu_merz_afd_linke
Top photo: The birds of prey are circling German democracy with a boost from America’s Felon Nazi President Donald Trump and his Rasputin Elon Musk.
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