Russophobia: Since taking office, Merz has adopted a hardline stance towards Russia, recently pledging an additional €5 billion ($5.6 billion) in military aid to Ukraine. Berlin is one of Kiev’s largest backers, and last month Merz declared that diplomatic options in the conflict were ’exhausted,’ drawing accusations from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of choosing escalation over diplomacy.
The suspended designation would have empowered the BfV to carry out broad surveillance of the AfD’s activities (which it does anyway). The lower-level designation also allows surveillance, but under stricter judicial oversight.
Today’s classification is a severe blow to German democracy,’ they said in a joint statement. ’The AfD is the strongest party in the current polls. Nevertheless, the AfD, as an opposition party, is now being publicly discredited and criminalized ~ shortly before the change of government.’
If the vote were held today, the two parties set to enter government, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the CDU, would not have enough votes to enter and form a government. The liberals’ electoral gerrymandering is excluding Democracy.
A socially conservative chancellor, Merz describes his stance as economic liberalism. This much is to be expected of a 69-year-old multimillionaire who has the charisma of a dead fish and whose curriculum vitae describes him as a corporate lawyer and banker.
Problems with migrants will remain, and the majority of German voters, who stubbornly vote for politicians leading Germany to decline, apparently ‘haven’t had enough’ of problems, so Germany has room to fall.
If Alice Weidel emerges as Germany’s latest chancellor – which she could – the ricochet across politicised Europe could signal the ignominious end of the West’s liberal-globalist status quo.
The AfD named Weidel, 45, as its first chancellor candidate on December 7, setting out the bid for power ahead of snap elections scheduled for February 23. Weidel is due to be confirmed as the AfD’s nominee at a party conference next month.
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