Posted on 09/05/2016 5:37:58 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
But she basically went on to insist the German people did not know what was good for them and she just had to be more persuasive.
Mrs Merkel’s CDU party was beaten into third place by the right wing Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party in her home state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
CDU could muster only a pitiful 19.2 per cent of the vote compared to the victorious AfD's 21 per cent, leading to growing scepticism about Merkel's ability to cling onto power in Germany after her party also lost three elections to the AfD in March.
Today at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China, Mrs Merkel conceded the open door policy to migrants had swayed the election but added that she considered the "fundamental decisions" of the refugee policy were correct.
She said the outcome of the state election stands for itself and added: "We must take note that people do not have sufficient confidence in our solution competences. That is why the task is to now work hard to restore confidence. We need to show that we will solve the problems.
"Everyone has to think about how we can regain confidence - especially myself.
“I think the fundamental decisions of recent months were correct, but we still have a lot to do."
"I am very unhappy. The CDU can not reap the fruits because the election campaign was almost exclusively about the issues of federal policy".
After the AfD win, the party leader Frauke Petry said: "We have made history here today.
"This is a slap in the face for Merkel - not only in Berlin but also in her home state. The voters made a clear statement against Merkel's disastrous immigration policies. This put her in her place."
Same line British libs used after the Brexit vote. Same sentiments felt and expressed by ALL progs when their utopian schemes suffer setbacks.
Reminds of the vote for TARP after phone calls to Congress and the Senate were running 400-1 against.
They still voted for it insisting they knew better...
I don’t know how the German electoral system works. What will take Merkle down and when will it happen?
Unhappy and dumb as a post.
And the people who voted for TARP were all reelected, so they decided they were right to protect the big banks and screw everybody else.
What a totally evil woman - the Hillary of Germany.
Her sad face makes me happy. A progressive politician enslaving her public to rape and other crimes with a criminal invasion.
She needs to go “hang out” with some of her refujihadis. They’ll cheer her up one way or another.
She’s cut right out of Obama’s buttm isn’t she?
In their minds US and German citizens just aren’t sufficiently smart and sophisticated to appreciate what great things they do for us by loading us up with muslim crazies.
“But she basically went on to insist the German people did not know what was good for them”
So the German people were not worthy of, and failed the Chancellor? Where have I heard that before?
The old communist beotch easily slid into the Islamist mode, because after all you don’t have to believe the nonsense. Just bow and say a few words, and you too will be projected onto the world stage.
Oh yeahhhh,....the Fuhrer bunker!
Yes. How dare the German citizens take into account the big picture when voting.
Weg Merkel,geh weg!
Weg Merkel,geh weg!
Weg Merkel,geh weg!
Weg Merkel,geh weg!
Weg Merkel,geh weg!
People want to be among their own kind. They don’t want open borders and globalists importing large numbers of foreigners who aren’t going to assimilate. The only exception in history that can be made is towards the blacks who came to America as slaves, as obviously they came here against their will. They are Americans, but Muslims simply aren’t.
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