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Old October 2nd, 2018 #1
littlefieldjohn
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Default AFD Now Germany’s “Second Largest Party,” Says Latest Poll

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The populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is now Germany’s second largest party, displacing the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from that position for the first time since the founding of the modern German state.

According to the ARD morning magazine’s latest Infratest dimap poll, the AfD has “pushed past the SPD for the first time” and the “governing coalition [between the conservative Christian Social Union, or CSU, and the SPD] has lost further support.”

The poll said that if the Bundestag had to hold an election today, the CSU would poll the lowest it had in more than twenty years and the AfD would emerge as the second largest party in the German parliament.

The poll said that the CSU would take 28 percent of the vote, the SPD 17 percent, and the AfD, 18 percent.

Although this represents a two percent increase for the AfD, the reality remains that the other parties—which include the liberal FDP (9 percent), the crypto-communist Die Linke (10 percent) and the red-alinged “Greens” (15 percent) would still be able to form a coaltion to keep the AfD out of any government.

Despite this, the German constitution however compels whatever ruling government there might be to distribute important parliamentary posts according to party size, which would mean that te AfD would not be completely powerless.

Even more importantly, the AfD would have even greater access to federal funding, as Germany’s constitution pays out large sums of cash to parties based on their support levels—in a supposed attempt to prevent lobbies gaining control of party policies.

This is how the CSU, SPD and others have managed to establish “foundations” to propagate their politics and perpetuate their dominance of the political scene. The AfD has not been slow to utilize this channel to establish their own propaganda outlets, much to the consternation of the ruling elite.

A second place in the Bundestag would increase the state payouts to the AfD even more.


In a related development, the AfD’s attempts to woo the German Jewish lobby by playing upon the very real threat to Jews posed by the mass Muslim invasion of Germany, have come to naught after the official Jewish organization dismissed the approach.https://abcnews.go.com/International...ry?id=58200280

The AfD’s initiative—launched by the party in the town of Offenbach—saw local party leader Dimitri Schulz (who is a Jew, the son of immigrants from Russia) tell media that the “AfD is the only party in the Federal Republic that makes anti-Semitism toward Jews by Muslims a topic without trivializing it.

“The mass immigration of young men from Islamic culture was detrimental to Jewish life in Germany because of their anti-Semitic socialization,” Schulz said.

The head of the German Jewish Council, Joseph Schuster, slammed the AfD’s “Jewish initiative,” telling a local paper that he could not “understand a Jew who sympathizes with the AfD or is involved in this party.”

Another organization, the Jewish Students Union of Germany, is planning a protest next week called “This alternative is not kosher,” across the street from where the AfD’s new Jewish section will meet.

“It’s a dangerous right-wing populist party, and it is a dangerous time for Jews and minorities,” said Dalia Grinfeld, the group’s president.

“What the AfD is doing is “putting on a mask of ‘we are Jewish-friendly,’ but it is really trying to use German’s Jews for self-promotion.

“Most of German’s Jews, who number around 100,000, do not seem drawn to the AfD,” Grinfeld said. “It’s sad some of our community members sympathize, but it’s a very small fraction.”

The Jewish head of Human Rights Watch in Germany, Wenzel Michalski, told ABC News that Jews should abhor the AfD. “This is a party that meets together with anti-Semites and Nazis, and it is completely absurd as a Jew to join it,” he said.

http://newobserveronline.com/afd-now...s-latest-poll/
 
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