Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is the dry reason (Bundesland) roofing the Northernmost 25% strip of sometime East Germany. Pomerania itself is a percentage belonging to Deutschland in addition to Poland these days; the advert "Pomerania" (PL: Pomorze, CZ: Pomořany) only about agency "Area By the Sea" inward Slavic languages. The as named seventh century West Slavic tribe of Pomeranians has modern descendants inward Poland, the Kashubians. Most of the Bundesland is Mecklenburg inward the West, a historical dry reason speaking Low High German (Mecklenburg is a distorted Mikilenburg, a large castle; it was Veligrad inward old Slavic languages in addition to it is Megalopolis inward modern Latin). Their hymeneals is the poorest Bundesland inward Germany. It in all likelihood harbors the smallest seat out of Muslims as good – but the Bundesland is with those that empathize that a large Muslim community is a problem.
On August 24th, Czech ex-president Václav Klaus visited Schwerin, the working capital missive of the alphabet of this Bundesland, in addition to gave a speech (DE) to back upwards the Alternative für Deutschland. I retrieve it's fortunate that non many Czechs are reading these things because they would in all likelihood live slowly targets of parodies.
If I add together only a piffling fight of the parody flavor, he said that he had really, genuinely never visited the business office of DDR North of Berlin before. Why would I live visiting such a deadening apartment house without mountains? How could I relish right-wing sports such as skiing over here? Or should I swim inward your mutual frigidness Baltic Sea? Funnily enough, as a kid, with my family, I have got spent a calendar week inward the Rügen Island (CZ: ostrov Rujána). It was fun. Cold hardy right-wing boys such as your humble correspondent don't have got a work to swim inward mutual frigidness water. I've tried an Austrian lake closed to 10 °C, too. ;-)
At whatever rate, today's elections turned AfD to a remarkable "de facto winner". It was for sure the political party with the greatest improvement from the in conclusion elections.
According to the latest extrapolations which hopefully accept some "real votes" inward many districts into trace of piece of work concern human relationship (in Czechia, nosotros routinely know the terminal results two hours later the polls end!), SPD (the social democrats, similar a shot Merkel's partners inward the grand coalition) won with 30.4% of votes, 5.2% worse than inward 2011.
AfD is minute with 21.4% which is 21.4% improve than inward 2011.
Even though this Bundesland is Merkel's abode state, her CDU was alone 3rd with 19.1%, a driblet yesteryear 3.9% from the "already historically worst" 2011 elections.
Die Linke – the Left – which is a renamed in addition to modernized sometime communist political party of the DDR won 12.9% now, 5.5% worse than inward 2011, in addition to is the last, 4th political party that volition sit down inward the Parliament. SPD, AfD, CDU, Linke should post 26, 18, 16, in addition to xi lawmakers to the Landtag (state's Parliament), respectively.
The (pro-immigration) Greens alone had 4.9%, 3.8% worse than inward 2011, which is below the 5% threshold in addition to thence they volition remain out of the Parliament now. So volition NPD, a 1980s-style of a nationalist/soft fascist party, which had 3%, 3% less than inward 2011, in addition to FDP whose 2.9% consequence is a tiny 0.1% improvement from 2011 – the alone political party aside from AfD that achieved a improve score than it did inward 2011. (Two decades ago, I was considering myself as a potential FDP voter if I were High German but I retrieve that many things have got changed close the parties in addition to the political topics they are addressing.) Other parties have got received 5.4% as a combo, 0.2% less than inward 2011.
This dandy consequence for AfD follows similarly promising results inward three Bundesland elections inward April. With AfD higher upwards CDU, fifty-fifty inward the CDU's leader's abode state, I retrieve that it becomes obvious that attempts to marginalize AfD across Deutschland are silly.
There can't live whatever incertitude that the sometime Bundesländer of West Deutschland volition choose worse results for AfD. But I retrieve that Bavaria could display similar anti-mass-migration moods as the lands of the DDR. However, inward Bavaria, CSU – the Bavarian-only branch of CDU – is much less pro-mass-migration than Merkel which is why CSU naturally devours some votes that would locomote to AfD if CSU were only an uncritical branch or pocket-size clone of CDU.
Congratulations to AfD, its federal chairman Ms Frauke Petry, its Bundesland leader Mr Leif-Erik Holm, in addition to those who back upwards the party. The mindless march towards a novel totalitarianism and/or the devastation of Europe as nosotros have got known it does have got an choice in addition to this choice becomes impossible to cover or credibly mock.
Some left-wing media may have got seemingly annoying headlines – for example, the BBC asks Is AfD racist? – but I retrieve that when whatever somebody with IQ higher upwards lxx listens to the video interview etc., he or she volition conclude that the AfD candidates in addition to supporters are fine in addition to sensible people who are doing the correct matter in addition to it's their detractors who are by in addition to large malicious in addition to dishonest scum.
Tim Worstall of Forbes urges everyone non to label AfD an anti-immigration nationalist party. He says that it's to a greater extent than subtle in addition to AfD is genuinely closed to the Czech Libertarian Party of the Free Citizens (SSO) which he knows (and I know) real well.