{"id":265884,"date":"2016-09-06T09:24:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T09:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/good-news-for-western-civilization\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T09:24:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T09:24:30","slug":"good-news-for-western-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/good-news-for-western-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News for Western Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"
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German chancellor’s own party turns on her after election defeat to anti-immigration party, with ministers admitting ‘she cannot ignore the views of the people’<\/h3>\n
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By Allan Hall
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September 6, 2016<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Angela Merkel\u2019s own party has turned on her after suffering an election defeat to an anti-immigration party \u2013 with ministers admitting \u2018she cannot ignore the views of the people\u2019.<\/p>\n

The German chancellor\u00a0is under renewed pressure to U-turn on her controversial \u2018open door\u2019 refugee policy after her conservative CDU party was hammered into third place in an election in her home state on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party clinched almost 21 per cent in its first bid for seats in the regional parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.<\/p>\n

With her eyes on national elections next year, AfD co-chief Beatrix von Storch hailed the shocking outcome as \u2018the beginning of the end of the Merkel era\u2019, while Bild daily labelled the result another \u2018slap across the face\u2019 for the chancellor.<\/p>\n

The result also led the daily newspaper Die Welt to comment: \u2018Germany now has what has never existed since the end of the war: an extreme-right party\u2019. Her own key allies are now demanding changes, fearful of being decimated at the ballot box in\u00a0next year\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n

The anti-immigrant, anti-EU Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won nearly 22 percent in the vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The CDU trailed with 19 percent, its worst ever score in the start where the chancellor has her own constituency.<\/p>\n

Poor and poorly populated, elections in the region are usually decided on economic matters. But this one was fought solely on the chancellor\u2019s immigration programme which has seen more than a million refugees settle in the country in a year.<\/p>\n

One in two voters said they were casting their ballot because of the migrant issue and nothing else. After her defeat, the AfD lead candidate Leif-Erik Holm called it a \u2018proud result for a young party.<\/p>\n

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German chancellor’s own party turns on her after election defeat to anti-immigration party, with ministers admitting ‘she cannot ignore the views of the people’ By Allan Hall Daily Mail September 6, 2016 Angela Merkel\u2019s own party has turned on her after suffering an election defeat to an anti-immigration party \u2013 with ministers admitting \u2018she cannot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-265884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}