“POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE: AfD conquers first district office – Precedent in Thuringia”
This is the greatest blow to democracy Europe has seen since Russia successfully put down a peaceful military coup a couple of days ago.
Europe is now in a spiral against democracy, when they should be spiraling in the reverse, into the black hole of vibrant diversity and human rights based values.
For the first time in Germany, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won a district council election, administrators announced on Sunday (25.6.2023).
Voters in the eastern German town of Sonneberg— located in former East Germany GDR — elected AfD candidate Robert Sesselmann at the expense of incumbent district administrator Jürgen Köpper of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
In the runoff election in the Thuringian district of Sonneberg, Sesselmann won 52.8% of the vote, earning him the necessary absolute majority, according to election officials.
The area of some 57,000 people is one of the smallest districts in Germany. Still, the AfD victory is a major breakthrough for the far-right party, whose Thuringia branch has been classified as far-right extremist by Germany’s domestic intelligence service. All mainstream parties regularly vow to not enter coalition governments with the AfD.
The AfD’s leader in Thuringia, Björn Höcke, welcomed the win and said it demonstrates the party’s recent momentum.
“And then we’ll prepare for the state elections in the east, where we can really create a political earthquake,” he said, referring to state parliament elections in the eastern states of Saxony, Thuringia, and Brandenburg.
Robert Sesselmann is the one in the center
How did AfD’s opponents react?Thuringia’s Interior Minister Georg Maier, who belongs to the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), described the outcome as “an alarm signal for all democratic forces.”
He called for party-political interests to be set aside and a joint effort to defend democracy.
The President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, said although not every AfD voter holds extreme right-wing views, the party itself does.
“This is a watershed that this country’s democratic political forces cannot simply accept,” he told the RND media network.
The International Auschwitz Committee also expressed horror.
“Today is a sad day for the Sonneberg district, for Germany, and for democracy,” Executive Vice President Christoph Heubner said.
“A majority of voters have obviously said goodbye to democracy and deliberately opted for an extreme right-wing party of destruction dominated by a Nazi [Björn Höcke. eds].”
When future historians look back on the end of democracy in Europe, they will say it died in darkness when Prigozhin failed his attempt at a coup to do more democracy in Russia.
Ever since Wagner failed to build a vibrant democracy in Russia, the breaks have gone out on the twisting and turning train towards global autocracy, where violent extremists will rule, and will enact laws that require schools to inform parents that activist groups have convinced their children to join the homosexual lifestyle and practice anal.
If Wagner can’t restore sanity, then who can?
Everyone on earth is going to die.