“Center Right” Party in Germany Wins Elections, Vows to Not Close the Borders

“None of us wants to close the border.” CDU’s promises died within 24 hours.

I’m not surprised for two reasons.

First, the “Center right” party, the Christian Democrat Union or CDU (or just “Union), is the party of Angela Merkel, whose “Wilkomen” policy of allowing mass migration without even the most basic vetting has plunged Germany into the crisis that has led to the rise of the AfD, with whom they refuse to make a coalition government.

Second is the background of the leader of the party, one Mr Friedrich  Merz, an “old-school conservative”. Oh really?

  • Ex Chairman of Blackrock Germany
  • Dedicated to deeper EU integration
  • Member of the WEF’s Board of Trustees
  • Regular attendee WEF in Davos
  • Attended Bilderberg Group meetings
  • Supported Covid vaccine passports
  • Wanted restrictions on unvaccinated
  • Advocated for digital ID in Germany
  • Supported EU-wide asylum policies
  • Supports carbon trading markets

He’ll get along with our PM Luxon like a house on fire.

The success of the AfD (the “far right” party), with their best-ever result and coming second only to Union, comes as no surprise given previous polling result.

But the collapse of the FDR (Free Democratic Party) to less than 5%, thus booting them out of Parliament altogether, is, given what a powerhouse it has been in German politics since WWII, and how many governments it’s been a junior coalition partner: the CDU/CSU (1949–1956, 1961–1966, 1982–1998, 2009–2013) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) (1969–1982, 2021–2024.

Liberalism, especially the International kind, isn’t what it used to be.

As Ace-of-Spades says:

You might wonder: Why not just start a new party that isn’t “far right” but still opposes open borders?

Well, silly, because any party that opposes open borders is “far right” and subject to the “firewall” policy of excluding closed-border parties. So the “center right” party will be pursuing a socialist, mass-migration open borders agenda. But they’ve kept those dirty “far right” voters out of power.

And what happens when the German government collapses again because the “center right” party cannot agree with its socialist and green partners?

Well, we go through the same process again: a government is allowed to govern without a majority, citing an emergency, and they stage another election in which the will of the people will again be thwarted, and the “center-right” party again forms a coalition with the leftwing open borders parties.

It will be the same with the energy policies that are slowly strangling German industries to death, but Ace surprisingly does not ask the obvious question: how long can policies that actually hurt the German people continue before those people vote for a majority government that actively reverses them?

I appreciate Cdr Salamander’s take on things military and much of his political analysis, but this time he’s wrong, The German Elections: Take the “W”:

Union is a post-Merkel Union. If SPD can get rid of Scholz and leave the crusty 1980s Soviet apologist SPD behind, and they get a better leader, then perhaps it may work. If they do what needs to be done, AfD’s rise will stall. Linke will stay in single digits, Germany will be stronger, NATO will be stronger, the EU will be stronger, and the USA will be stronger.

The word “If” is doing an awful lot of lifting in that paragraph and of course his hopes on limiting immigration are already dead as per the earlier story above. Still, his analysis is interesting, even as he admits that he doesn’t grasp all the nuances of German politics, is interesting, such as this map:

So the AfD’s support comes from the old East Germany, a place that has never really recovered from the Cold War, despite their Western cousins pouring vast amounts of money in since 1989.

Another map noted that the East is the most strongly atheist area in the nation, which is a poke in the eye for the left critics tub thumping the whole “Christian Nationalism” thing (although that’s largely aimed at America).

There’s much bold talk listed in Salamander’s Substack article about how this new government of Germany is taking VP Vance’s speech to heart, or at least the part about Europe getting serious about its military spending. They’re actually saying they need to be more independent of America and were eager participants in French President Macron’s recent “emergency” summit that pulled EU leaders together on this subject.

But obviously they’re not listening to Vance’s other comments about their policies on immigration and civil liberties.