Rightist AfD makes hyuge gains in German elections

"Things can't go much better than this," said Joerg Meuthen, co-leader of Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD), pronouncing himself "highly satisfied" with the results of elections in the state of Saxony, in eastern Germany, this weekend.

With counting nearly complete, the right-wing party was on track to win 28% of the vote, its best performance in any state election to date. Five years ago the AfD polled just under 10% of the vote. Angela Merkel's ruling centre-right Christian Democratic Union got 33% of the vote, down from 39% five years ago.

In neighbouring Brandenburg, Alternativ für Deutschland won 23.5%, almost doubling its vote share (12.2%) in the 2014 state election. The Social Democrats, partners of Frau Merkel's Christian Democrats, pipped AfD at the post, winning 26.2% of the vote, down from 31.9% five years ago. Like the CDU's showing in Saxony, that was the worst result for the centre-left party since the reunification of Germany 29 years ago.

Although the CDU-SDU coalition has clung to power in both states of the former East Germany, the strong showing by the AfD evidences growing dissatisfaction with Angela Merkel's government, which the German people hold responsible for the inundation of the Fatherland with millions of unassimilable Muslim "refugees" and asylum-seekers, all part of the Great Replacement orchestrated by (((George Soros))) and his useful fool, Pope Francis.

Although the AfD did not win the state elections, its chief whip in the Bundestag -- the German federal parliament -- Bernd Baumann, said its strong showing "pushes the issues forward that really interest people out there. I am glad that more and more people in the country say, 'We will take our country back from the left-wing, green mainstream, from the old parties to certain media."