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DetlefK

(16,479 posts)
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 12:37 PM Saturday

Good news. Germany's Neonazis have published their electoral program.

Germany has premature national elections in February 2025, due to some complicated and juicy political drama.

In the polls the far-right AfD party is in 2nd place, at 20%, with the center-right CDU at 30% and the center-left SPD at 15%, and the rest of votes split among smaller parties.



Now the far-right AfD has declared their candidate and published their main electoral program:

- They want Germany to leave the Euro. (Which is a non-starter. Germans love the Euro and the financial freedoms it means.)

- They want Germany to leave the EU. (Which is a non-starter, since everyone saw the economic collapse of Great Britain after Brexit.)

- They want to lift the sanctions on Russia. (The sanctions have strong support in Germany.)

- They want stricter abortion-laws. (Which is a non-starter. Germany has a very strong women's-rights movement since the 1960s.)



The current frontrunner is the center-right candidate. Imagine a centrist Democrat or an old-school Never-Trumper Republican.

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