Germany's far-right AfD has won its first regional election, taking between 30.5 and 33.5 percent of the vote in the former East German state of Thuringia, exit polls showed on Sunday.
Very much agree, and in my opinion European left collectively shat the bed at the start of the war by allying with the libs. This left the right as the only parties pointing out the obvious fact that the war is bad for Europe. Now that everybody can see that Europe has been devastated economically as a result a lot of people are naturally turning to the parties that took the rational stance on the war.
As I'm in portugal where the left HAS opposed the war, with the communist party opposing even arms shipments to ukraine, and generally speaking got punished for it, I can't say that europe-wide opposing the war gets you much electoral success, but certainly germans seem less inclined to support the war than portuguese people so I agree with you that it was a wasted opportunity there.
Very much agree, and in my opinion European left collectively shat the bed at the start of the war by allying with the libs. This left the right as the only parties pointing out the obvious fact that the war is bad for Europe. Now that everybody can see that Europe has been devastated economically as a result a lot of people are naturally turning to the parties that took the rational stance on the war.
As I'm in portugal where the left HAS opposed the war, with the communist party opposing even arms shipments to ukraine, and generally speaking got punished for it, I can't say that europe-wide opposing the war gets you much electoral success, but certainly germans seem less inclined to support the war than portuguese people so I agree with you that it was a wasted opportunity there.
Yeah, I guess it depends on where you are in Europe. In Slovakia, the left won the election on opposing the war.
there was no chance of the european left not allying with liberals, because they are liberals.
all the european so-called leftist socdem parties revealed their true neolib colors by the 90s at the latest.
Pretty much yeah, and now they've been exposed for what they are. Hopefully, this will create space for the actual left to asset itself once again.