Concerning
the 18th Berlin state election in Germany, the mainstream media
mainly focused on three things: 1st (naturally), the first place,
taken by the SPD Social-Democrats, 2nd (naturally), Merkel's shocking
defeat, 3rd (naturally), the significant rise of the right-wing
populist, eurosceptic and nationalist party, Alternative for Germany
(AfD).
However, it
would be useful to mention that Social-Democrats also suffered
significant losses, in
regard to previous elections. Actually, their losses (-6.7% and -10
seats), were bigger than Merkel's CDU (-5.8% and -8 seats).
Moreover,
most of the mainstream media didn't bother to mention the rise of Die
Linke Leftists. Die Linke took the third place with 15.6% (+4% and +7
seats) and could easily drop CDU from the second place. In fact, the
significant percentages of Die Linke and the Greens (together more
than 30%), could be considered the only hopeful sign against the
dramatic rise of nationalists that brings nightmarish memories of the
past.
Die Linke is
one of the few political parties in Germany that criticized
intensively the German policies of austerity that destroyed Greek
economy, while throwing eurozone into a dangerous stagnation. Seeing
that euro has been used by the economic elites to transform Greece
into a debt colony, a part of the European Left, and therefore a part
of Die Linke, is becoming hostile against the euro currency.
Meaning,
that the establishment starts to sense a real threat from the Left.
Despite the
shocking rise of the nationalists, mostly due to the refugee crisis,
Die Linke exhibited a remarkable, quite promising strength. The
shocking losses for the parties of the establishment are a sign for
a, quite probable, complete transformation of the German political
landscape in the 2017 national elections.
Maybe it's
time for the Left to make a new attempt to change the catastrophic
course of Europe. And this new struggle could start at the heart of
current big problems that Europe currently confronts.
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