Germany votes in most important post war election

Tomorrow Germany goes to the polls and it is likely that the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany)  will receive a ‘good’ result. 

Most probably the CDU will receive the most votes. Leader of the CDU is Friedrich Metz, who was sidelined by Angela Merkel, many years ago.

Merz looks patrician, flies his own plane. Having been sidelined by Merkel he worked in banking. He was a serious contender to Merkel

SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz has little chance of retaining his job, though he might well pull off a surprise. Most likely wishful thinking on the part of this blog.

He is the first post war chancellor who is not a member of a church.

Green chancellor candidate Robert Habeck hopes his party will be in the shake up to form part of the next coalition government. He, and foreign minister Annalena Baebock, have played a strong and influential role in the current  Jamaica coalition. Two competent ministers, who have offered the world of politics an aspect of decency and uprightness, something not often to be seen these days. 

Habeck’s great-grandfather, Walter Granzow was a bank official, landowner, member of the Nazi Party and an SS-Brigade leader.

It’s difficult to see the Free Democrats, who pulled out of the current government, gaining the five per cent quota required to have a presence in the Bundestag.

Sahra Wagenknecht, who formed her own party on leaving Die Linke, has been winning votes in eastern Germany. The party is called the Sahara Wagenknecht Alliance. Seems odd to call a party using your own name. She is from East Germany, a clever woman, able to quote Goethe at will. It’s said she knows some of his works from start to finish off -by-heart.

Wagenknecht is married to Oscar Lafontaine, who was for a brief time Germany’s finance minister in the Gerhard Schröder government, when the Sun newspaper referred to him as Europe’s most dangerous man.

And then there is the far-right AfD. Co-leader is Alice Weidel. In 2017 she said the two main Christian churches in Germany, Catholics and Protestants, were ‘playing the same inglorious role that they played in the Third Reich', that the churches were  politicised and went on to say that the AfD is ‘the only Christian party that still exists.

Weidel lives with Sarah Bossard from Sri Lanka and their two adopted children in Switzerland. The couple are in a civil union.

Her grandfather, Hans Weidel was a judge appointed directly by Adolf Hitler. He joined the NSDAP in 1932 and the SS in 1933.

Who would have thought that 80 years after the end of the evil of a German far-right party another such styled political party would rise from the ashes of the millions who were murdered and maimed at the hands of Germans. It is shocking and worrying.

The results will be known by 6pm tomorrow. We hold our breath.