Rise of patriotic populists challenges Muslim invasion
Germany rocked by surging anti-immigrant party
WND.com
3/17/2016
As the Continent reels from the continuing surge of Islamic refugees Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is sounding the alarm about the “destruction of Europe.”
The fiery eastern European leader, who has emerged as the de facto leader of the resistance to the Islamic “refugee” influx, called for Europeans to unite and put the “brakes on Brussels” in a recent speech. And his comments come at a time when the leader most responsible for welcoming the Muslim migrants, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has suffered a stunning political defeat.
Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union was shocked earlier this week as angry Germans rallied to a once fringe populist and anti-immigration party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which won sizable percentages of the vote in three regional elections, including more than 24 percent in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
AfD also won 15 percent in Baden-Württemberg and 12.5 percent in Rhineland-Palatinate, buttressing the controversial party’s claim it represents a sizable national constituency. According to polls from last fall, AfD is the third most popular political party in the country.
Its image has been helped by its youthful female leader, the pixie haired Frauke Petry, who took to social media after the vote to boast the AfD “made an important first step in the right direction to break the cartels of consensus parties.”
While Merkel has pledged to stay the course and accept more and more refugees, even the mainstream press has turned on her policies, with the German magazine Der Spiegel arguing Merkel created a “German society that is more divided and disgruntled than it has been in years… [and] a Europe that is no longer united.”
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