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Voters set to punish Merkel at key 'Super Sunday' election
TheLocal.de ^ | 09 Mar 2016 08:25 GMT+01:00 | (AFP)

Posted on 03/09/2016 6:15:44 AM PST by Olog-hai

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party risks a drubbing at key state elections Sunday as voters punish the German leader for her liberal refugee policy, while the right-wing populist AfD eyes major gains as it scoops up the protest vote.

More than 12 million voters are due to elect three new regional parliaments for the southwestern states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as eastern Saxony-Anhalt in the so-called Super Sunday polls.

The elections are the biggest since a record influx of refugees to Germany, and disgruntled voters are expected to seize on the opportunity to hit the ruling coalition where it hurts. …

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TOPICS: Germany; Politics/Elections; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: germany; merkel; rapefugees; rop; supersunday

1 posted on 03/09/2016 6:15:44 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

They should have her head on a pike.

If only some candidate were strong enough to propose a Muslim ban for Europe ....


2 posted on 03/09/2016 6:19:59 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Olog-hai

This is the one to watch.
The future of the EU hangs in the balance.


3 posted on 03/09/2016 6:20:11 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Olog-hai
MERKEL RAUS!


4 posted on 03/09/2016 6:22:58 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aiderai)
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To: Olog-hai

Push for a vote of no confidence.


5 posted on 03/09/2016 6:23:04 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Olog-hai

Germany is lost and Merkel doesn’t give a damn about it.


6 posted on 03/09/2016 6:31:53 AM PST by austinaero
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To: Olog-hai

These godless socialists thinks that they can control these sub- humans.


7 posted on 03/09/2016 6:33:18 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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8 posted on 03/09/2016 6:35:06 AM PST by red-dawg (NO Prisoners.)
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To: Olog-hai

Dass es ein Trump


9 posted on 03/09/2016 6:41:49 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: mac_truck

I don’t see any royalist flags at that rally. There were several at the Koeln rally.


10 posted on 03/09/2016 6:51:40 AM PST by PAR35
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To: TigerClaws

“They should have her head on a pike.”

150 years ago they would have.


11 posted on 03/09/2016 6:56:54 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

Seems that this is a time that when reflected on requires one to acknowledge that at times the democratic process is inadequate to mete out the appropriate justice due ones leaders.

I hope the German people do not go quietly in the night on this one.


12 posted on 03/09/2016 9:04:25 AM PST by whistleduck ("....the calm confidence of a Christian with 4 aces".....S.)
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