Scholz’s Government “Basically Finished” as Pressure Mounts for Snap Election
Olaf Scholz is coming under pressure to follow Emannuel Macron’s example and call a snap election after his party suffered a humiliating defeat in EU elections. The Telegraph has the story.
“This Government is basically finished and we need to do what France has done,” Markus Söder, the conservative Governor of Bavaria, said on Monday.
Mr. Söder added that Mr. Scholz’s Government “no longer has the trust of the population, that’s why there should be new elections as soon as possible.”
The centre-Right Christian Democrats, the main opposition in Germany’s Parliament, also called on the Chancellor to call a vote of confidence on Monday to test whether he still has the support of his shaky three-way coalition.
Mr. Scholz’s Social Democrats scored their worst ever EU election result, winning just 14% of the vote, according to exit polls.His coalition partners, the Greens and the Free Democrats, also fared badly as the German public swung decisively to the Right.
Okay, so it’s just the elections for the toothless EU Parliament, not for domestic legislators, and you’d expect opposition parties to beat the Government when it’s down and call for an election. But there’s no doubt the pressure is on the centrists and Leftists in power across Europe to follow Macron’s example following their spanking in the vote. Since much of the swing is surely due to the insane level of immigration into Europe in recent years, I wonder at what point they will accept they really do have to control the borders?
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I wonder if all this bad news might prompt an early release of Billy’s new brew? A sort of calming measure by the Davos Deviants intended to settle things down while they reset their timetable? Or could the opposite scenario, a further Scamdemic, be the means to ignite populations and cause massive civil unrest?
It’s somewhat unsurprising that the Lefties who come on here give thumbs down and don’t say anything: they are generally on the dole and claiming everything going. What is surprising though is that, at this point, 49 people have thumbs up and only I’ve said anything.
I personally think a new Scamdemic would backfire on Bill’s cohort. Look at the way the EU countries have turned on their laughable leaders with three countries already heading to snap elections. Sure, most would comply but those who will not will be far higher than last time.
The WEF also have Sir Fear heading their way and he is on record as saying he far prefers the WEF to Parliament.
My gut feeling is that it will be around 5 years before the next one: America will be having an election with, most likely, two new candidates. Biden can’t unwrap a toilet roll now let alone global politics so he isn’t going to be standing. Labour will also have wrecked the British economy and Reform will be causing chaos to the great order. Perfect time to throw a bomb just when the two most influential countries are in turmoil.
The left is constantly trying to stay in power any way it can. I still think polticial solutions are not going to solve the existential problems we have in Europe. We can keep moving the deck chairs around but Islam and communists will still undermine any right minded government.
Only when political and cultural collapse is near will we probably wake up
There is no left or right.
Point me to a government, right or left, that has reduced the size of the state in any meaningful way.
None.
Every single government since WWII has grown the state. Even Thatcher.
Governments don’t change anything of substance.
Good point. How depressing. Javier Milei says he wants to, but I don’t know enough about what’s happening in Argentina to know whether he has done much of substance yet.
Yes the Leftards did not fare well and the writing’s on the wall for Scholz. More deets here; ”Voters have sent a clear message to the German coalition to “drastically change [its] politics on migration, on the economy and on climate protection,” wrote Germany’s daily Bild after the European elections held on Sunday. The three parties of the left-liberal government suffered a humiliating defeat, with the Social Democrats suffering their worst result ever. The party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz came third with 13.9%, which translates to 14 seats in the European Parliament (out of the 96 allocated to Germany). The Greens endured even worse losses, dipping to 11.9% (12 seats) from 20.5% (21 seats) five years ago—a sign that voters are fed up with the climate and energy policies—like the closing down of all Germany’s nuclear reactors—that have burdened citizens, the war against farmers, and plans to ban new combustion engine cars. As the conservative publication Junge Freiheit jokingly put it: The voters, who thanks to “promises of progress” are now allowed to choose their gender every year, but in a few years will no longer be able to choose which car they can drive, send their regards. The big winners of election day were two anti-establishment, anti-globalist parties, the… Read more »
I’m thinking this city in Germany could be twinned with Bradford; ”The fact that Germany no longer has anything to do with Germany in certain areas is evident after the EU elections in voting districts in the highly Islamized city of Duisburg, where Erdogan’s hardcore Muslim party, DAVA, was able to collect 41.10 percent of the votes. Voting district 1001 in the city of Duisburg has – like many city districts in Germany – already been lost to Islam. There, the Muslim party founded in January, which operates under the eye-washing name “Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening” (DAVA), was able to mobilize its Islamic electorate and achieve a shocking election result. With 41.10 percent of the vote, the Muslim party performed by far the best. The AfD came in second with 14.16 percent, followed by the SPD with 10.96 percent. The CDU achieved 8.68 percent. DAVA , which is considered Islamist and is Erdogan’s extended arm, celebrated its victory in Duisburg on social media: Look what we can achieve together, was the party’s message to its Muslim voters. What they want to achieve can be described in one word: Islamization. In their party program, the Allah-faithful ones babble about a… Read more »
In The Bible it says something like “The meek shall inherit the Earth”. Looks like the Religion of Peace bypassed the meek and went straight to the Weak and were handed the keys. We have so much to be thankful for to our Glorious Leaders like Two Million Merkel.
The last idea of the CDU how to cope with immigration (I heard of) was to relax the rules for building new asylum seeker’s hostels. During Corona, Söder was one of the guys in favour of everything, lockdown, mask mandates, forced repeat testing and mandatory vaccination. There’s little to expect from these people. They’re one half of the traditional ruling clique of the FRG (the other being the SPD).
A little known fact about the Christian Democratic Union (the CSU is the Christian Socialist Union, BTW) is that they’re basically re-founded Zentrum, the Catholic/ Papist party of the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. Nominally, this name change happened to emphasise that Protestants were now also welcome. To which degree this was motivated by a desire to hide the fact that the Zentrum had provided the enabling votes for the enablement act to pass is anybody’s guess. Knowing a bit about Adenauer’s personal history prior to becoming the first FRG chancellor, I believe it was.
Right of centre must not step of the gas till the globalists at the UN, EU and WEF realise we have had enough of their central planning one world government pretend to save the planet politics.
I wonder if governments are deliberately quitting so that the new incumbents can be ‘blamed’ for failing to reach or abandoning Net Zero targets? I suspect they’ll be feted rather than blamed.
Mr Sunak seems to be doing his best to lose the election, M. Macron has just called an election for France, M. de Croo has just resigned the Belgian government and rumours abound that Hr. Scholz will follow soon for Germany.
With potentially so many inexperienced governments in the West at the same time things could get interesting.
My advice (as someone who lives in a country with a MMP system, copied almost exactly from the German archetype) is: UK, don’t give up your FPP electoral system. You may occasionally get a poor or less than optimal result, but you can, as someone once observed, “throw the buggers out” next time.