Exit polls for ARD and ZDF public television showed support for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats at 14%, below the 15.8% they managed in 2019 and far below their showing in Germany’s last national election in 2021.
  • @[email protected]English
    66•19 days ago

    It would seem the entire world is in a fascist death spiral. I’m not going to to be so grandiose as to say we are all completely fucked, but I will say this wave of fascism is going to likely stunt human progress for the next one-hundred years.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•19 days ago

      Old people become more conservative, the largest generation is now old…

      Yup we’re fucked.

      • @[email protected]English
        38•19 days ago

        The 70+ age group was the one the AfD performed worst in. It’s young people voting fascist here in Germany, the old folks vote CDU because that’s what they’ve always done.

        • muppethEnglish
          11•19 days ago

          And this is the most scary part of it. Specially that it isn’t just France or Germany but pretty much across the board young people voted for biggest populists out there.

        • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)English
          5•18 days ago

          I just want to quickly add it isn’t just “young people”, it’s young men. Women are still heavily left but 20-something men want to give the 1930s a try again.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•19 days ago

        They actually don’t, on average they actually become slightly more progressive. However, rich people are conservative and rich people live longer.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•19 days ago

      Since it always seems to go along with corporatism and a refusal to admit climate change is a problem, it will set us back much more than that. It’s shocking how easily people are turned to fascism.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    6•19 days ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    BRUSSELS (AP) — Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union and made major gains in parliamentary elections Sunday, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to French President Emmanuel Macron.

    And even if the Alternative for Germany extreme right party was hounded by scandal involving candidates, it still rallied enough seats to sweep past the slumping Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

    Sensing a threat from the far right, the Christian Democrats of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had already shifted further to the right on migration and climate ahead of the elections — and were rewarded by remaining by far the biggest group in the 720-seat European Parliament and de facto brokers of the ever expanding powers of the legislature.

    Reflecting on the rise of the far-right and a good showing of the far-left, von der Leyen added that “the result comes with great stability for the parties in the center.

    Over the last five years, the EU has been shaken by the coronavirus pandemic, an economic slump and an energy crisis fueled by the biggest land conflict in Europe since World War II.

    Since the last EU election in 2019, populist or far-right parties now lead governments in three nations — Hungary, Slovakia and Italy — and are part of ruling coalitions in others including Sweden, Finland and, soon, the Netherlands.

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