ICYMI: Right-Wing Alternative for Germany Scores Second Place in Pivotal Election, Conservative Set to to be Next Chancellor; Discontented Germany Votes in an Election with Economy, Migration and Far-Right Strength in Focus

Right-wing Alternative for Germany scores second place in pivotal election, conservative set to to be next chancellor

Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, won a stunning gain in Sunday’s election — capturing an estimated one in five votes across the European Union’s largest country.

But, the anti-immigrant, pro-Russia party is still likely to be frozen out of the government — after the right-of-center CDU/CSU parties claimed the biggest share of the vote.

CDU leader Friedrich Merz has the best shot at becoming Germany’s next chancellor — but he has vowed he would not work with AfD to form a government in the German Bundestag.

As polls closed at noon on Sunday, the AfD — which has received the public backing of MAGA figures including Elon Musk and JD Vance — looked set to finish second in the overall results, with 20.2% following widespread fury in Germany over immigration and persistent economic recession.

As polls closed at noon on Sunday, the AfD — which has received the public backing of MAGA figures including Elon Musk and JD Vance — looked set to finish second in the overall results, with 20.2% following widespread fury in Germany over immigration and persistent economic recession.

The conservative CDU/CSU voting bloc with 28.8% came first after it adopted some of AfD’s anti-immigrant policies.

Speaking after the exit poll was announced, the AfD’s leader, Alice Weidel, told cheering supporters the movement was now a “mainstream” party.

“Our hand remains outstretched to form a government,” Weidel told supporters, adding that if the conservatives ignored the will of the people by refusing to enter a coalition with them, the AfD would be the biggest party next time around.

“We have never been stronger — we are the second biggest force,” Weidel said at the event in Berlin, as party activists waved German flags.

Merz has looked to move the CDU to the right on issues such as immigration, breaking away from the centrism of the party’s long-standing former leader Angela Merkel — who welcomed in the waves of refugees who are now causing mass political upheaval.

“I want to do politics so that a party like the AfD is no longer needed in Germany,” Merz told supporters at an event in January.

AfD’s result represents a 9.8% increase on the last election results and would push the ruling left-wing SDP into third with just 16% of the vote, the worst numbers for the party since even before the Second Wold War on the rise of Nazism. —>READ MORE HERE

Discontented Germany votes in an election with economy, migration and far-right strength in focus:

German voters are choosing a new government in an election Sunday dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of Europe’s biggest economy, pressure to curb migration and growing uncertainty over the future of Ukraine and Europe’s alliance with the United States.

The center-right opposition is favored to win, while polls point to the strongest result for a far-right party since World War II.

Germany is the most populous country in the 27-nation European Union and a leading member of NATO.

It has been Ukraine’s second-biggest weapons supplier, after the US.

It will be central to shaping the continent’s response to the challenges of the coming years, including the Trump administration’s confrontational foreign and trade policy.

The top candidates, conservative front-runner Friedrich Merz and current Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats, voted within minutes of each other in different parts of the country on Sunday morning.

What are Germans voting for?

More than 59 million people in the nation of 84 million are eligible to elect the 630 members of the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, who will take their seats under the glass dome of Berlin’s landmark Reichstag building.

Germany’s electoral system rarely produces absolute majorities, and no party looks anywhere near one this time.

It’s expected that two or more parties will form a coalition, following potentially difficult negotiations that will take weeks or even months before the Bundestag elects the next chancellor. —>READ MORE HERE

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