How wonderful it is that in a democracy state power comes from the people – and not from editors. Despite a campaign ‘against the right’ that has been orchestrated for months by public media, churches, employers’ organizations, trade unions and government parties – the EU elections have produced the opposite.
Two poles: on the one hand, the enormous fall of the Greens by more than eight percentage points, on the other hand, the rise of the AfD by five points to 15.9 percent, to become the second strongest force. Even before the party of a chancellor who obtained only 13.9 percent. It is the SPD’s worst federal result ever!
Apparently the wind has changed. More and more citizens are tired of the hysterical climate fearmongering, the hypermoral language censorship and the ban on debates. The heating hammer and the end of the combustion engine were the final slap in the face of all citizens who do not drink chai lattes in urban eco-districts and do not do their shopping in the organic supermarket on their cargo bike.
No insight into the competition after the EU elections
The increasingly absurd warnings about the AfD’s alleged destruction of democracy, the instrumentalization of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the vilification of the AfD, which can no longer be magnified even as “neo-Nazis” – e.g. by SPD leader Lars Klingbeil or CSU top candidate Manfred Weber on election night – make them less and less involved and used by many citizens – especially young voters! – decoded as a transparent smear of an uncomfortable opposition.
It is highly doubtful whether the established parties will learn lessons from the election results. While Macron immediately called new elections in France and the Belgian Prime Minister resigned, the traffic light politicians in Berlin clung to their armchairs and bunkered down.
The AfD came away with a black eye
In view of the state elections in three eastern states, they (together with the CDU) will seek refuge in even more fervent anti-fascist oaths. But citizens are less and less interested in this. Instead, they expect finally action on the core problems: migration, homeland security, tax waste and the economy.
The AfD breathes a sigh of relief and comes away with a black eye, given the misfortunes surrounding the lost top candidate – because the party recently stood at 20 percent. In the East, the question of the ability to govern will arise already in the fall. This requires reason, professionalism, the ability to compromise and leadership. The AfD will set this course at its federal party conference in Essen at the end of June.