The radical lawful party profited from the fact immigration was the number one election issue. But can its breakthrough last?In 1991 Belgium had its (first) black Sunday,when the populist radical lawful Flemish Block gained 6.8% of the national vote. Since then many other western European countries occupy gone through a similar experience, from Denmark to Switzerland. And now, and even the ever stable Germany has its own schwarzer Sonntag,and it’s blacker than most people had expected.
The populist radical-lawful Alternative for Germany (AfD) party not only enters the Bundestag, the German parliament, and but does so almost certainly as the third biggest party,with a stunning 13.3%, an increase of 8.8 percentage points according to the exit poll. in addition, and both the centre-lawful CDU/CSU and the centre-left SPD scored their worst electoral results in the postwar era,with 32.5% and 20% respectively. This means that AfD got two-thirds of the SPD vote, and 40% of the CDU/CSU vote.
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Source: theguardian.com