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Serious 4th Term Lifetime Dictator Chancellor Angela Merkel 打死不跑!

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Ang Moh said democratic leaders only for 2 terms? No?

Merkel = beat dead won't quit?

German LKY? Or new CB Hitler?


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Merkel favoured to win historic 4th term as Germans head to polls

Far-right party Alternative for Germany set to challenge parliament's consensus-based approach

Thomson Reuters Posted: Sep 24, 2017 12:36 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 24, 2017 12:36 AM ET
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to win a fourth term as chancellor on Sunday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to win a fourth term as chancellor on Sunday. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
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Germans vote in a national election today that is likely to see Chancellor Angela Merkel win a historic fourth term and a far-right party enter parliament for the first time in more than half a century.

Merkel's conservative bloc is on track to remain the largest group in parliament, opinion polls showed before the vote, but a fracturing of the political landscape may well make it harder for her to form a ruling coalition than previously.

With as many as a third of Germans undecided in the run-up to the election, Merkel and her main rival, centre-left challenger Martin Schulz of the Social Democrats (SPD), urged them on Saturday to get out and vote.

"We want to boost your motivation so that we can still reach many, many people," the chancellor, 63, said in Berlin before heading north to her constituency for a final round of campaigning.

In regional votes last year, Merkel's conservatives suffered setbacks to the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which profited from resentment at her 2015 decision to leave German borders open to over one million migrants.

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Those setbacks made Merkel, a pastor's daughter who grew up in Communist East Germany, wonder if she should even run for re-election.

But with the migrant issue under control this year, she has bounced back and thrown herself into a punishing campaign schedule, presenting herself as an anchor of stability in an uncertain world.

Visibly happier, Merkel campaigned with renewed conviction: a resolve to re-tool the economy for the digital age, to head off future migrant crises, and to defend a Western order shaken by U.S. President Donald Trump's victory last November.
AfD gains support

Both Merkel and Schulz worry that a low turnout could work in favour of smaller parties, especially the AfD, which is expected to enter the national parliament for the first time. On Friday, Schulz described the AfD as "gravediggers of democracy."

An INSA poll published by Bild newspaper on Saturday showed sliding support for Merkel's conservatives, who dropped two percentage points to 34 per cent, and the SPD, down one point to 21 per cent — both now joined in an unwieldy "grand coalition."

The anti-immigrant AfD, rose two points to 13 per cent — a result the poll showed would make it the third largest party.

Merkel pitches German voters steady course while far right makes waves

Should she win a fourth term, Merkel will join the late Helmut Kohl, her mentor who reunified Germany, and Konrad Adenauer, who led Germany's rebirth after the Second World War, as the only post-war chancellors to win four national elections.

The AfD's expected entry into the national parliament will herald the beginning of a new era in German politics that will see more robust debate and a departure from the steady, consensus-based approach that has marked the post-war period.

Coalition building after the election will be an arduous process that could take months as all potential partners are unsure whether they really want to share power with Merkel.

All major parties refuse to work with the AfD.

Electoral arithmetic might push Merkel to renew her grand coalition with the SPD, or she might opt for a three-way alliance with the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and environmentalist Greens.

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The good news in this debacle I hope is the right wing will finally win some seats n they got a bigger share of the vote.
 

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I am so glad the right wing has done better...it's time to give the left wing bleeding heart liberal fuckwits a kick in the rear end n to stop their tyranny
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German election: Angela Merkel hangs on to power but forced to form coalition after losing support to far-right
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Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader and German Chancellor Angela Merkel react to exit polls.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a fourth term in office but will have to build an uneasy coalition to form a Government after her conservatives haemorrhaged support in the face of a surge by the far-right.

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It is the first time that a far-right party will join Parliament in decades
Ms Merkel's conservative bloc saw its biggest slump since 1949
A coalition government will have to be formed, putting Germany on shaky ground
The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) stunned the establishment by winning 13.1 per cent of the vote, projected results showed, a result that will bring a far-right party into Parliament for the first time in more than half a century.

Ms Merkel's conservative bloc emerged as the largest parliamentary bloc but, with just 33.2 per cent of the vote, saw its support slump to the lowest since 1949 — the first time national elections were held in post-war Germany.

Her main Social Democrat (SPD) rivals also received their worst result since the 1940s — just 20.8 per cent — after nearly half of voters repudiated the two parties that have dominated Germany since World War II.

With Parliament now fragmented, Ms Merkel appears likely to cobble together a tricky three-way coalition with a pro-business group and the Greens.

As the results came in, hundreds of anti-AfD demonstrators descended on the club where the party's leaders were celebrating their third-place finish.

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Shouting "All Berlin hates the AfD!", "Nazi pigs!" and other slogans, several protesters threw bottles as police kept held them back from the building in Berlin.

The protesters had been holding a demonstration against the AfD in nearby Alexanderplatz earlier in the evening.

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Ms Merkel said the success of the far right was a test for Germans, and that it was important to listen to the concerns of their voters and win them back.

"Of course we had hoped for a slightly better result. But we mustn't forget that we have just completed an extraordinarily challenging legislative period, so I am happy that we reached the strategic goals of our election campaign," Ms Merkel said.

"We are the strongest party, we have the mandate to build the next government — and there cannot be a coalition government built against us."

The election was fought on the tense backdrop of surging support for far left and far right parties across Europe.

Germany in particular is coping with the arrival of more than 1 million refugees and other new migrants, with tension with Russia since Moscow's incursions into Ukraine, and with doubt about Europe's future since Britain voted to quit the EU.

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After shock election results last year, from the Brexit vote to the election of US President Donald Trump, leaders of Europe's establishment have looked to Ms Merkel to rally the liberal Western order.


But after acting as an anchor of stability in Europe and beyond, she now faces an unstable situation at home as she must now form a coalition, an arduous process that could take months.

Immediately after the release of exit polls, the deputy party leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), junior partners in a "grand coalition" with Ms Merkel's conservatives for the last four years, said her party would now go into opposition.

"For us, the grand coalition ends today," Manuela Schwesig told local media.

"For us it's clear that we'll go into opposition as demanded by the voter."

Without the SPD, MS Merkel's only straightforward path to a majority in Parliament would be a three-way tie-up with the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) and the Greens, known as a "Jamaica" coalition because the black, yellow and green colours of the three parties match the Jamaican flag.

Such an arrangement is untested at the national level in Germany and widely seen as inherently unstable.

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Germany's jubilant far-right has Merkel in its sights

Michelle Martin

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Alexander Gauland, top candidate of the anti-immigration party Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) reacts as he awaits first exit polls in the German general election (Bundestagswahl) in Berlin, Germany, September 24, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

BERLIN (Reuters) - Swept into parliament by those Germans angered at the arrival of more than a million refugees and migrants, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) had a stark message for Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday.

“We will hound her. We’ll get our country and our people back,” Alexander Gauland, 76, one of the party’s two leading candidates, told supporters to wild applause at a post-election celebration in a Berlin nightclub.

The first far-right party to enter Germany’s parliament in more than half a century, the AfD - which has been likened by Germany’s own foreign minister to the Nazis - won around 13 percent of Sunday’s vote, according to early projections.

That puts it on course to be the third biggest party in the new parliament after Merkel’s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats, both of whom saw their share of the vote fall amid the AfD surge.

Its campaign provoked controversy with posters featuring a pregnant women under the slogan: “New Germans? We’ll make them ourselves” and women in traditional Bavarian dress holding wine glasses with the words: “Burqa? I‘m more into Burgundy”.

The party did particularly well in the former communist east Germany, where it won 22.9 percent of the vote - up 17 points from the last election in 2013, according to projections. In the west it won 11.3 percent, up 6.8 points from back then.

Although all established parties refuse to work with the AfD, its forecast 87 parliamentary seats mean it will now have a voice in the lower house of Europe’s richest country and become eligible for government funding tied to the size of its vote.

It rejects any comparison to the Nazis, instead insisting it raises valid concerns about immigration and what it calls the “Islamisation” of the West which are not being addressed by Europe’s mainstream politicians.
Christian Democratic Union CDU party leader and German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts on first exit polls in the German general election (Bundestagswahl) in Berlin, Germany, September 24, 2017. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Alice Weidel, the AfD’s other leading candidate, promised supporters the AfD would do “constructive work” in opposition.

“The first thing we’ll do is keep our first promise to launch a committee to investigate Angela Merkel,” said the 38-year-old former investment banker, who argues Merkel’s 2015 decision to allow one million migrants into Germany was illegal.

Georg Pazderski, a member of the AfD’s executive board, told Reuters before Sunday’s election his party would use parliament speeches to draw attention to the cost of immigration and the shortcomings both of the single currency euro zone - which the AfD wants Germany to leave - and of the European Union.

He said he expected other parties to shun the AfD for a year or two but ultimately to work with it. He pointed to the regional assembly in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt where the AfD and Merkel’s Christian Democrats together voted to set up a committee to investigate left-wing extremism.

A recent study by the Ruhr University Bochum found that of the 235 candidates running for the AfD, 98 belonged to the wing that supports party official Bjoern Hoecke, who has courted controversy by denying that Adolf Hitler was “absolutely evil”.

It found 40 candidates were part of the party’s more moderate wing around co-leader Frauke Petry. She herself was once considered radical for overseeing the AfD’s transformation from a party set up by academics in 2013 to protest euro zone bailouts into a staunchly anti-immigrant party.

The other 97 candidates have been so inconspicuous up until now that their political orientation was not known, it said.

The AfD’s candidates include a judge who called Germany’s remembrance of the Nazi murder of six million Jews a “cult of guilt”, a 77-year-old who once called the Holocaust “an effective tool for criminalizing Germans” and a lawyer who said police should be allowed to shoot at illegal migrants.
 

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Dumbfuck germs are just like our 70%....kpkb but end up voting incumbent.
Hope their cuntry get overrun by smelly immigrants
 

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Dumbfuck germs are just like our 70%....kpkb but end up voting incumbent.
Hope their cuntry get overrun by smelly immigrants

Those who voted for this bitch should get their ass raped by the refugees and terrorists let in by her.

The good news with all this is the right wing did well.... Merkel has some real competition now...

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It think its the right way for Germany to move forward. Continue with her economic progress while giving the right more political muscle - to deal with the growing Muslim immigrant issue. Its about time. Would like to see some rigfht wing vigilante groups assert themselves on their streets.

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Stability is GONE CASE for Germany!

It think its the right way for Germany to move forward. Continue with her economic progress while giving the right more political muscle - to deal with the growing Muslim immigrant issue. Its about time. Would like to see some rigfht wing vigilante groups assert themselves on their streets.

Cheers!

Merkel’s days as German Chancellor are probably now numbered

Bryan MacDonald
Bryan MacDonald is an Irish journalist, who is based in Russia
Published time: 25 Sep, 2017 17:30
Edited time: 25 Sep, 2017 17:48
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Merkel’s days as German Chancellor are probably now numbered
Christian Democratic Union CDU party leader and German Chancellor Angela Merkel © Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
The rise of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) dominates the headlines, but the most significant outcome of the German election is that Angela Merkel’s days as Chancellor are probably numbered. This has grave implications for Europe and the wider world.

What's more, Berlin’s uber stable political system has splintered which means we now enter territory unchartered for a lifetime. Because the swing to the radical Free Democrats (FDP) and AfD is over fourteen percentage points and almost all these gains are at the expense of the outgoing “grand coalition” of the centrist CDU/CSU and SPD parties. Both of whom have dominated Germany’s democratic parliaments since the Second World War.

For instance, in 1980, the pair controlled 87 percent of the vote in the old Federal Republic, and now they can barely manage a majority, between them, with only 53 percent of preferences. Furthermore, for the first time since 1924, six parties have achieved more than five percent of the vote. And this serves to highlight just how fragmented German politics has become.

Of course, it hardly signals a return to the Weimar days, but the relative chaos exposes how a large number of Germans have become disillusioned with the status quo. The grievances range from growing inequality and rising levels of immigration to a feeling that the political class is out of touch. The latter two concerns are often combined when voters react to Merkel’s unilateral decision to open Germany’s borders to large numbers of migrants in 2015.

A winner, of sorts

However, we must remember that Merkel has actually won the election. Even if it may ultimately amount to a Pyrrhic victory. Also, don’t forget how she’s now emulated her erstwhile mentor, Helmut Kohl, by winning four campaigns. Nevertheless, it seems unlikely, right now, that “Mutti” (as he is affectionately known to supporters) will match his 16 years in office. Because, even at the fourth attempt in 1994, Kohl still brought the CDU/CSU alliance 294 seats from 672, whereas Merkel has managed only 246 out of an available 709. And this also represents a 65 berth drop compared to the 2013 renewal.

Thus, the knives will now be out for Merkel, and it’s only a matter of time before disgruntled backbenchers plot her ousting. Not to mention how the Bavarian CSU wing of her union has endured an eleven percent vote collapse (49percent to 38 percent), which its leader, Horst Seehofer will surely blame on blowback from the Chancellor’s open door to migrants.

This is the elephant in the room. Because before Merkel permitted millions of newcomers to freely enter Germany, the polling situation was radically different. In the last survey of August 2015, INSA put the CDU/CSU on 41 percent, the SPD on 23 percent, the FDP, and AfD both on 4 percent. Since then, the two centrist groupings have dropped eleven points, and the pair which demand the control of migration flows gained a fourteen percent increase in support.

The reason for this change is hardly a secret. On the 4th of September that year, Merkel announced how immigrants would be allowed to cross the border from Hungary into Austria and onward to Germany. Since then, over a million newcomers, mostly Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi in origin, have entered the country. And the fallout has undermined Berlin's, much envied, political steadiness.

All the chances

Right now, none of the Chancellor’s coalition options look particularly appetizing. SPD leader Martin Schulz has insisted his party will leave power; presumably to prevent the AfD leading the opposition and stem further hemorrhaging of support to the disrupters. This leaves the FPD and the Green Party as potential makeweights, an arrangement known as the “Jamaica option” due to the party’s color schemes.

However, the two smaller groupings have radically different platforms and, only a few weeks ago, FDP leader Christian Lindner said he “couldn’t imagine” them making a deal. That’s because the two groups are diametrically at variance on immigration and energy policies. Then there are tensions between the CSU and the Greens to consider. The environmentalists are, to put it mildly, a thorn in the side of the automobile industry. Especially with their red-line issue of removing all new combustion engine cars from the roads by 2030. Of course, the CSU's Bavaria domain, the home state of Rudolph Diesel himself, is also the headquarters of BMW, which employs tens of thousands of people locally.

There are also foreign policy disagreements between the “Jamaicans.” The FDP believes Berlin must accept Russia’s reabsorption of Crimea while the Green’s co-leader Cem Ozdemir wants to see sanctions against Moscow “tightened.”
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Martin Schulz (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel © Yves Herman Germany: Caught between America and Russia again
Ultimate u-turn?

That said, there’s also a chance Merkel might be able to convince Schulz to reverse his hostility to a coalition in the “national interest.” Even if it leaves the AfD to dominate the opposition benches. Because the CDU/CSU-FDP-Green grouping may not survive a full Bundestag term.

Either way, Germany’s famed stability has been fractured, and we are surely now entering Merkel’s political endgame. The Chancellor has invested too much capital in her liberal migration policies to backtrack at this point. As a result, the CDU/CSU rank and file will now perceive her as an electoral liability, going forward, where once she was seen as a huge positive.

Also, the SPD has much navel-gazing ahead, after its disastrous showing, and may need to mimic Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour by moving to a more radical left stance in the future. Although, this seems impossible to imagine under the leadership of the ultraliberal centrist Schulz. At the same time, Die Linke’s momentum has stalled, and the AfD has made a huge breakthrough.

The ramifications will be felt further afield too. In Paris, Emmanuel Macron knows that the FDP in government could kill his plans for closer eurozone integration. And the Greeks will be delighted if the party, which favors debt relief for Athens, enters power. Meanwhile, Washington must be amused at the SPD’s travails after Schulz called for the removal of US nuclear weapons from German soil.

Merkel is now on borrowed time. But she's unlikely to gently depart the stage. Expect plenty of intrigues ahead.





Euro dips after Angela Merkel’s hollow victory

Published time: 25 Sep, 2017 14:48
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Christian Democratic Union CDU party leader and German Chancellor Angela Merkel © Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
The euro slipped on Monday following the German election that saw Angela Merkel win a fourth term but with a worse-than-expected result as her party didn’t get enough votes to form a majority government.

The single European currency weakened against almost all its major peers. It was down 0.6 percent against the US dollar, trading at $1.1879 as of 14:40pm GMT. The euro was also down 0.6 percent against the British pound and 0.4 percent against the Japanese yen.


Analysts say the biggest problem for markets is political uncertainty as they react by selling the euro. Uncertainty may also throw into question European Central Bank plans to reduce monetary stimulus, a move which is likely to be announced at the ECB’s next meeting on October 26.

“There might be some concerns at the ECB that a less stable and less pro-EU German government will have negative implications for the (economic) outlook. That would be dovish,” Frederik Ducrozet, an economist at Pictet Wealth Management was cited as saying by Reuters.

According to experts, the decline is limited by what is still a strong European economy, but they warn the euro could see more wobbles until a government coalition is secured.

A survey showed on Monday that business confidence in Germany deteriorated unexpectedly in September, with the chief economist of the Ifo Economic Institute saying the election result could stoke further uncertainty.

“Market perception of highly predictable and stable German politics may be challenged,” analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch told the Quartz.

With 33 percent of the vote, Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU alliance won a plurality in the German parliamentary elections. However, results showed record-low support for Germany’s major parties, while the third-placed anti-immigrant AfD became the first far-right party to enter parliament in more than half a century.
 
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