Mario Nawfal
🇩🇪AFD: GERMANY’S TOP PARTY - AND THE ESTABLISHMENT IS PANICKING AfD is the most popular party in the country because Germans are done watching the same political soap opera on repeat. The CDU flip-flops, the Greens tank the economy, the SPD fades into irrelevance, and the FDP might as well not exist. Meanwhile, AfD’s out here saying the quiet parts loud: secure the borders, stop the EU power grab, and maybe put Germans first for once. It’s not a protest vote anymore - it’s a middle finger to a system that’s out of gas and out of touch. Source: Der Spiegel
Mario Nawfal
🇩🇪GERMANY’S CENTRIST PARTIES STRIKE COALITION DEAL AS RIGHT-WING AFD SURGES Germany’s 2 traditional centrist parties, the CDU and SPD, have reached a coalition agreement, ending weeks of tense negotiations following February’s federal election. CDU leader and designated chancellor Friedrich Merz secured a first-place finish but fell short of a majority, forcing coalition talks with the center-left SPD after the collapse of the previous government last November. The urgency to strike a deal intensified as the AfD broke even with the CDU in recent polls, nearly doubling its support and shaking the foundations of Germany’s postwar political consensus. The coalition pact is expected to restore some stability to Germany’s leadership, but it also reveals how much political ground the center has lost to rising populist forces. Source: CNN, Reuters
