Bavaria's CSU loses its majority in regional election; blow for Merkel's coalition

Monday, October 15th 2018 - 07:17 UTC

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Angela Merkel's sister party has suffered massive losses in Bavaria's state elections, exit polls suggest, in a blow to the German chancellor. The CSU is set to lose its absolute majority in the state parliament, while the Greens surged into second place and the anti-immigration AfD entered the state parliament for the first time. Read full article

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bushpilot
Too late now. The social damage Merkel has inflicted on Germany is already done and irreversible.

I know this sounds conspiratorial, but the people advising her to add almost a million refugees to the german overpopulation must have been paid off by Russia or China to do so, or to keep quiet about it.

You couldn't just start out with inviting 50,000 refugees, for starters? You had to invite a million. And even after that debacle, Merkel still did not want to curb her immigration impulses.

It is unexplainable to me, except for some quirky explanation like the above.
Oct 15th, 2018 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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DemonTree
The low birthrate and falling number of working age people in Germany might have something to do with it? They needed more workers to pay their pensions, and once they started letting them in, they couldn't easily stop. I thought Cameron's plan to take refugees directly from the camps was much better than letting them come across the border uncontrolled.
Oct 15th, 2018 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
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chronic
Merc is a political vampire.

It's going to take a stake through her atheist heart to get her out of government.
Oct 16th, 2018 - 12:38 am - Link - Report abuse -1
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