Christian Democratic Union of Germany

Instead of addressing the demands of young people, it is mobilising the security apparatus and whipping up hysteria over allegedly impending riots.

Alexander Throm, the domestic policy spokesman for the Christian Democratic Union, Christian Social Union, CDU-CSU parliamentary group, warned the rhenisher post that the danger must be taken seriously that the protest could be hijacked by left-wing extremist forces sections of the militant milieu and criminals he told the handelsblatt that scenes like those in france must be prevented at all costs claiming that a sinister alliance was forming particularly in berlin Social Democratic Party SPD interior policy spokesman Sebastian Feidler declared that violent protests had no legitimacy whatsoever.

He praised the early, quote, extremely professional preparations by the security authorities and called for monitoring who was, quote, fuelling the situation online.

The Berlin Young Union, the youth organisation of the CDU, even appealed to the Bundeswehr for administrative assistance in a social media post demanding, quote, the planned student protests must be prevented, end of quote.

It has never happened in our history.

And CDU is in great trouble.

The party which had made once Germany a rich and important country after the Second World War, is now falling out of local parliaments.

So it's a huge change we have now.

And that's also part of this great strategy of victory that he has.

But of course, Germans who are losing their jobs and who are going through a cost of living crisis and who are becoming increasingly exasperated by the entire Ukraine war and members of his own party the CDU, who are beginning to recognize that these sentiments that I just mentioned are becoming increasingly widespread amongst Germans.

They are going to see these comments of maths as an admission.

that this isn't a chancellor who is interested in Germany or whose concern is for the German people or for the welfare of German businesses or the German economy.

And I'm prepared to sacrifice you, your economy, your society, your businesses, your future in order to achieve victory in that war.

So it was an astonishingly revealing statement, and it's going to crystallize the mood in Germany, I suspect, further.

And I'm going to say it, I think it's going to hasten the day when the CDU says to Merz, enough's enough.

The time has come for you to go.

Yeah, so maybe the students are bringing Macron to zero before Mertz gets to zero.

But if the CDU can't reach the threshold to be in the Lander parliament in an election, the worst showing of the CDU and its whole history as a party.

Okay.

That's my hope.

It is deeply, deeply concerning.

And the CDU are getting a pasting in the polls, and AFD are riding high.

And you thought originally, like the received wisdom is that most far-right populist parties in Europe have a kind of ceiling of maybe 30%, right? And then I think AFD have shown that that's not the case.

And that is particularly concerning.

So we'll just have to see whether a coalition, a traffic light coalition, or the...

What do they call the coalition between the CDU and SPD? But anyway, the two big opposition parties historically, actually, as they are at the moment, working together against AFD, you know, I don't know what it's going to look like going forward, as you say.

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