Germany's ruling leftist party was handed a stinging rebuke from voters in the country's national elections on Sunday, as the center-right coalition came in first place -- with right-wing AfD finishing second. Conservative Friedrich Merz is poised to become the next Chancellor, based on the country's (historically highly accurate) exit polling. How the upcoming governing coalition shakes out remains unclear, especially given other parties' stated refusal to align with AfD. A mushy, tenuous centrist coalition government may be a probable outcome, given CDU's rejection of any governing partnership with AfD. The sitting Chancellor, lefty Olaf Scholz, admitted to a "bitter" defeat in remarks to dejected supporters on Sunday evening.
These results could represent a sea change in German politics, depending on how things shake out, with the electorate sending an unmistakable message and mandate for serious change moving forward. Will they get what they voted for?
BREAKING: Conservative CDU/CSU bloc wins Germany's federal election, far-right AfD in 2nd place - exit poll pic.twitter.com/eavDCnhlF3
— BNO News (@BNONews) February 23, 2025
BREAKING: Exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives leading and Alternative for Germany on course for the strongest far-right showing in a national election since WWII. https://t.co/ddR7YzL33P
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 23, 2025
“This is a bitter election result… it is a defeat,” Olaf Scholz says after his centre-left SPD party was projected to pick up a historically low share of the vote in Germany.
— Rosie Birchard (@RosieBirchard) February 23, 2025
“I am responsible for this election result,” he adds. pic.twitter.com/Mmr5Ki7jWP
Germany's migrant crisis and its government's attacks on free speech and expression rights were key subjects in Vice President JD Vance's recent remarks in Munich, which caused quite a stir. Despite professions of deep umbrage from German elites, it seems many German voters at least partly agree with what Vance's critiques. German officials sometimes seem more interested in aggressively punishing citizens who post angrily about Islamist attacks on social media than doing what is necessary to beat back the wave of Islamist violence that has too often been visited upon innocent Germans. There was another terrible attack -- separate from the recent car-ramming atrocity -- over the weekend:
The suspect in a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial that seriously injured a Spanish tourist is a Syrian refugee who apparently wanted to kill Jews, investigators said Saturday. The 19-year-old suspect was arrested on Friday evening, nearly three hours after the attack, when he approached officers with blood on his hands and clothes. Police and prosecutors said in a statement that the victim sustained life-threatening injuries to the neck when he was attacked with a knife. The 30-year-old underwent an emergency operation and was put into an artificial coma..the suspect arrived in Germany in 2023 as an unaccompanied minor and successfully applied for asylum, investigators said. He lives in Leipzig. The attack took place two days before a German national election in which migration has become a top issue, pushed to the forefront by five deadly attacks involving immigrants over the past nine months...The investigation so far points to a link between the attack and the conflict in the Middle East, police and prosecutors said. They added that evidence so far, particularly from what he told police in questioning, suggests that he had decided in the last few weeks to kill Jews. That was apparently why he chose to mount the attack at the memorial dedicated to the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.
A similar scene just played out in France, as well:
BREAKING:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 22, 2025
At least one killed in Islamist terror attack in Mulhouse, France.
Several people, including 2 policemen, wounded in a mass stabbing attack.
The attacker is an Algerian man who was on a terror list. He shouted “Allahu Akbar during the attack. pic.twitter.com/xLdqasYxW9
Islamist fanatics are on quite a spree across Europe:
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February in Europe:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 22, 2025
🇧🇪 3x AK47 shootings in front of the same subway station in Brussels
🇫🇷 15 hurt by hand grenade (Grenoble)
🇩🇪 Islamist Car-ramming attack (Munich)
🇦🇹 Islamist mass-stabbing (Austria)
🇩🇪 Antisemitic Islamist (?) terror stabbing at Berlin Holocaust Memorial pic.twitter.com/za08YRmT3O
That list doesn't include the 'Allahu Akbar' Mulhouse stabbing. It appears as though Germany's voters have had just about enough of it. Whether the government that emerges from their elections reflects that sentiment remains to be seen. Finally, the Irish government continues its disgraceful hatred of Israel and water-carrying for the Islamist monsters of Hamas -- including this anti-virtue signaling:
As First Minister, I’ve decided not to attend the White House events this year.
— Michelle O’Neill (@moneillsf) February 21, 2025
The US President’s comments on forced expulsion of the Palestinian people of Gaza cannot be ignored.
I will continue to engage with senior figures in the US for peace and economic growth.
In the… pic.twitter.com/033oUqQaGv
As Leader of Sinn Féin I have made the decision not to attend the event in the White House this year as a principled stance against the threat of mass expulsion of the Palestinian people from Gaza. pic.twitter.com/1FtXDDTocb
— Sinn Féin (@sinnfeinireland) February 21, 2025
Will these Hamas sympathizers and anti-Semites accept legions of Gazans into Ireland? I think it's time for them to roll out the welcome mat, especially since they've formally recognized a "Palestinian" state. If Israel's defensive war is displacing people they love so much, why not welcome them with open arms? Especially since they're working to change the definition of 'genocide' in order to accuse Israel of carrying one out. Won't you harbor 'genocide' victims, Irish leaders? Don't hold your breath. They want to talk a big game and let their anti-Semitism fly, which is appallingly popular with much of their electorate, but that same electorate absolutely doesn't want...those other people living among them either. Quite a nasty little show you're putting on, Ireland. I'll leave you with this, from the United Kingdom:
Illegal immigrant who stabbed wife to death wins right to stay in Britain after arguing he might have to face wrath of in-laws back home in Turkey https://t.co/ROhCzQuBnS
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) February 22, 2025
The great irony of the age is that European countries are shackled from deporting criminals, radicals, and Islamists because of laws created after WWII to prevent another Holocaust on the continent.
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 23, 2025
Now they're protecting people who want nothing more than another Holocaust https://t.co/5tp0lagUT7
