Common
12-15-2016, 05:13 AM
Merkel is a complete phony and fraud.
For years she tortured Germans with open borders, she did nothing when a thousand german women were assaulted and raped over one holiday season. She flooded germany with refugees and when germans complained she chastized them. Now because her re election is looming she changes up. Any german that buys this total phony ruse is a moron.
A year ago, she was the leading voice in Europe lecturing her constituents about the moral obligation to take in hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim refugees fleeing from Syria and other global crisis spots.But at her party convention this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel came out forcefully for a ban on Islamic face veils, or burqas, wherever “legally possible,” and vowed never to allow a repeat of the surge of refugees that has split her party and the nation.
“A situation like that of the summer of 2015 cannot and should not be repeated,” the Christian Democratic Union leader reassured her members gathered in the city of Essen, as the party prepared for what could be a difficult general election battle next year. “This was and remains our declared political goal.”
The shift — in rhetoric and policy — represented a remarkable and out-of-character about-face for the three-term chancellor, a departure from her trademark technocratic, low-key, no-nonsense style that reflects the shifting political winds in Europe, analysts said.
“Right-wing populist parties are getting more and more support among the people,” said Gero Neugebauer, a politics professor at Free University of Berlin. “So far, they are afraid of a backlash in Germany, too. That would mean the Christian Democratic Union would lose power in the next election.”
Ms. Merkel will run for her fourth term as chancellor next fall, but her once-enduring popularity has waned since she decided to accept 1 million refugees into her country. In September, her approval ratings hit a five-year low of 45 percent.
A series of shock election results this year have given the far-right party, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, seats in 10 out of 16 state assemblies, including in the chancellor’s home state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and even in ultraliberal Berlin.
With the AfD at 13 percent in nationwide polls and the populist right gaining ground across Europe, the German chancellor has come under increasing pressure from her own ruling coalition, which includes the more socially conservative Bavaria-based Christian Social Union, to tilt rightward, said analysts.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/14/angela-merkel-turns-on-refugees-as-backlash-boosts/
For years she tortured Germans with open borders, she did nothing when a thousand german women were assaulted and raped over one holiday season. She flooded germany with refugees and when germans complained she chastized them. Now because her re election is looming she changes up. Any german that buys this total phony ruse is a moron.
A year ago, she was the leading voice in Europe lecturing her constituents about the moral obligation to take in hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim refugees fleeing from Syria and other global crisis spots.But at her party convention this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel came out forcefully for a ban on Islamic face veils, or burqas, wherever “legally possible,” and vowed never to allow a repeat of the surge of refugees that has split her party and the nation.
“A situation like that of the summer of 2015 cannot and should not be repeated,” the Christian Democratic Union leader reassured her members gathered in the city of Essen, as the party prepared for what could be a difficult general election battle next year. “This was and remains our declared political goal.”
The shift — in rhetoric and policy — represented a remarkable and out-of-character about-face for the three-term chancellor, a departure from her trademark technocratic, low-key, no-nonsense style that reflects the shifting political winds in Europe, analysts said.
“Right-wing populist parties are getting more and more support among the people,” said Gero Neugebauer, a politics professor at Free University of Berlin. “So far, they are afraid of a backlash in Germany, too. That would mean the Christian Democratic Union would lose power in the next election.”
Ms. Merkel will run for her fourth term as chancellor next fall, but her once-enduring popularity has waned since she decided to accept 1 million refugees into her country. In September, her approval ratings hit a five-year low of 45 percent.
A series of shock election results this year have given the far-right party, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, seats in 10 out of 16 state assemblies, including in the chancellor’s home state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and even in ultraliberal Berlin.
With the AfD at 13 percent in nationwide polls and the populist right gaining ground across Europe, the German chancellor has come under increasing pressure from her own ruling coalition, which includes the more socially conservative Bavaria-based Christian Social Union, to tilt rightward, said analysts.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/14/angela-merkel-turns-on-refugees-as-backlash-boosts/