COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, Congratulations. Socrates was appropriate as soon as once more. Scholz’s unpopular Social Democrat authorities has the worst efficiency since World Battle II. Merz received, and Afd doubled its assist, coming in second. If this was America, Merz’s lower than 29% would have been a joke. Right here, he’ll rule Germany and stupidly vow no coalition with AfD. He has not received the memo as you say that the individuals are shifting.
Thanks for Socrates. That is the one forecaster that isn’t biased.
Hans
REPLY: Sure, Friedrich Merz’s conservative opposition chief, what wouldn’t be even a headline in america. When you will have so many events preventing, you get very ineffective governments. That many Italians have instructed me retains politicians arguing in opposition to one another and leaving the individuals alone. Certainly, as our pc projected, the Various for Germany practically doubled its assist, placing within the strongest displaying for an alleged “far-right party” that had been in opposition to wholesale immigration since World Battle II.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his left-leaning Social Democrats. He mentioned it was “a bitter election result.” Maybe he ought to take heed to the individuals moderately than to Kaus Schwab. Marxism doesn’t work. It has destroyed each economic system it has ever been deployed as a result of it’s outright in opposition to human nature.
Merz vowed to maneuver rapidly to place collectively a coalition authorities however has vowed to not make a coalition with AfD all as a result of the press has labeled them far-right, asking to be Nazis. Any coalition Merz created with out AfD will solely doom Germany to a continuation of the endless financial stagnation of Europe’s greatest economic system due to Russian sanctions and the silly net-zero local weather change insurance policies. Merz had pushed laborious in latest weeks for a stricter method, however with opposition to NATO in opposition to peace with Russia in an effort to stay related, will Merz fall in step with the EU struggle aims?
Germany is essentially the most populous nation within the 27-nation European Union and a number one member of NATO. It has been Ukraine’s second-biggest weapons provider after the U.S. Therein lies the issue. Scholtz promised Zelensky he can be his greatest supporter. Ukraine solely takes. I by no means hand over something. The Ukraine authorities is essentially the most corrupt authorities runs it on this planet, and they’re like a service provider who takes your cash and declares all gross sales are closing and haven’t any returns.
Based mostly on exit polls and partial counting, the projections put assist for Merz’s Union bloc got here in at round 28.5% and the anti-immigration AfD at about 20.5% — roughly double its end result from 2021. Scholz’s Social Democrats collapsed to simply over 16%, which was an all-time historic low even below the 20.5% from 2017. The Greens got here in at an appalling simply over 12%.
Merz made an enormous mistake due to the press and dismissed the concept voters wished a coalition with AfD. “We have fundamentally different views, for example on foreign policy, on security policy, in many other areas, regarding Europe, the euro, NATO,” he mentioned. Mertz has ignored the vote and he’s simply doing as directed by the EU and NATO. This doesn’t converse nicely for Germany’s’s altering instructions.
I don’t see Mertz altering Germany’s financial path. He should reject the EU and NATO and take heed to the German individuals.
