{"id":133407,"date":"2024-09-02T09:09:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T06:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/german-far-right-hails-historic-election-victory-in-east\/"},"modified":"2024-09-02T09:09:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T06:09:31","slug":"german-far-right-hails-historic-election-victory-in-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/german-far-right-hails-historic-election-victory-in-east\/","title":{"rendered":"German far right hails \u2018historic\u2019 election victory in east"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133407\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Germany&#8217;s anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) is celebrating a &#8220;historic success&#8221;, with a big victory for the far-right party in the eastern state of Thuringia. The AfD won almost a third of the vote, nine points ahead of the conservative CDU, and far in front of Germany&#8217;s three governing parties.The result gives the far right its first win in a state parliament election since World War Two, although it has little hope of forming a government in Thuringia.<\/p>\n<p>Results there gave the CDU 31.9% of the vote, little over a point ahead of the AfD, again far ahead of the three parties running the national government &#8211; the Social Democrats, Greens and liberal FDP. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the results were &#8220;bitter&#8221; and called on other mainstream parties to form state governments without the far right. &#8220;The AfD is damaging Germany. It is weakening the economy, dividing society and ruining our country&#8217;s reputation,&#8221; he said in a statement to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The AfD&#8217;s top candidate in Thuringia, Bj\u00f6rn H\u00f6cke, who is a highly controversial figure in Germany, hailed a &#8220;historic victory&#8221; and spoke of his great pride. He failed to win a direct mandate for the state parliament, but secured a seat because he was top of his party list. Mr H\u00f6cke&#8217;s party has been designated as right-wing extremist and he has been fined for using a Nazi slogan, although the former history teacher denies knowingly doing so.<\/p>\n<p>One of Germany&#8217;s best-known Holocaust survivors, Charlotte Knobloch, pointed out that the election had taken place 85 years to the day since the outbreak of World War Two. The result had left the country in danger of becoming &#8220;more unstable, colder and poorer, less safe and less worth living in&#8221;, she said. With federal elections only a year away, the AfD is second in national opinion polls. Co-leader Alice Weidel said the result was a &#8220;requiem&#8221; for the three parties running Germany and it was clear that voters in both eastern states wanted her party in government. &#8220;Without us a stable government is no longer possible at all,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>That message was repeated by Bj\u00f6rn H\u00f6cke, who suggested there were plenty of CDU voters who would be happy if they worked together.Without the support of other parties, the AfD cannot govern in Thuringia, and the CDU has made clear it will not consider ruling with the far right. Mathematically, the conservatives will need support from parties on the left to form a majority.<\/p>\n<p>Some five million Germans in the east were eligible to vote on Sunday and, according to a survey for public broadcaster ZDF, 36% of under-30s in Thuringia voted for the AfD, far more than any other party.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest issue for AfD voters on Sunday was immigration, and in particular the issue of refugees and asylum. \u201cPoliticians have promised a lot, particularly concerning migration and foreigners,&#8221; AfD voter Michael told the BBC in Thuringia&#8217;s state capital, Erfurt.&#8221;But nothing happened. Nothing. Just promises came from these parties. Now I have my party. And I stand with my decision,&#8221; he said, standing beside his partner Manuela, who agreed that people wanted change.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn02w01xr2jo\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn02w01xr2jo\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/german-far-right-hails-historic-election-victory-in-east\/\">German far right hails &#8216;historic&#8217; election victory in east<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15938,5810,15939,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-133407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-historic-election-victory","tag-east","tag-german-far-right","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}