{"id":818300,"date":"2021-09-26T23:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T03:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=818300"},"modified":"2021-09-26T23:14:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T03:14:38","slug":"germanys-afd-is-happy-merkel-is-out-looks-to-form-opposition-bloc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/germanys-afd-is-happy-merkel-is-out-looks-to-form-opposition-bloc\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s AFD is happy Merkel is out, looks to form opposition bloc"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgermanys-afd-is-happy-merkel-is-out-looks-to-form-opposition-bloc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=818300&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2530741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2530741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Parliamentary group co-leader and top candidate of Germany\u2019s Alternative for Germany (AFD) party Alice Weidel, leader and top candidate of Germany\u2019s free democratic FDP party Christian Lindner, leader of Germany\u2019s conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party and Bavaria\u2019s State Premier Markus Soeder, leader of Germany\u2019s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet, the moderators Rainald Becker and Peter Frey, co-leader of Germany\u2019s Greens (Die Gruenen) and the party\u2019s candidate for chancellor Annalena Baerbock, German Finance Minister, Vice-Chancellor and the Social Democrats (SPD) candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz and co-leader of Die Linke (The Left) left-wing party, Susanne Hennig-Wellsow, take part in a TV discussion at the German public TV station ZDF following the first election results on September 26, 2021 in Berlin. (Photo by SEBASTIAN GOLLNOW\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:03 PM PT \u2013 Sunday, September 26, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>German patriotic party Alternative for Germany expressed happiness over Chancellor Angela Merkel being out of office after the parliamentary election over the weekend. Party leaders stressed AFD reasserted itself as the fifth largest party in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Alternative for Germany was projected to secure 83 seats in Bundestag after carrying more than 10 percent of the vote. However, the party lost some of its voters while Social Democrats and the Greens made gains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that with our election campaign slogan \u2018Germany, But Normal\u2019 we focused on the right theme and this evening we will look into how we can further build on the result,\u201d expressed Tino Chrupalla, AFD co-leader. \u201cWe have seen that we have a strong base electorate in Germany that we can build on and we will look into why we lost possible voters as we will also have to address this with some self-criticism.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Germany (Schleswig-Holstein), 100% counted:<\/p>\n<p>SPD-S&amp;D: 28% (+4.7)<br \/>CDU-EPP: 22% (-12)<br \/>GR\u00dcNE-G\/EFA: 18.3% (+6.4)<br \/>FDP-RE: 12.5% (-0.2)<br \/>AfD-ID: 6.8% (-1.4)<br \/>LINKE-LEFT: 3.6% (-3.6)<br \/>SSW-G\/EFA: 3.2% (new)<br \/>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>+\/- vs. 2017<\/p>\n<p>Results live <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DecisionDeskHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DecisionDeskHQ<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cgq2dyzPZj\">https:\/\/t.co\/cgq2dyzPZj<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/btw21?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#btw21<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Er8tvZ0VGQ\">pic.twitter.com\/Er8tvZ0VGQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuropeElects\/status\/1442294725122342912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The AFD showed a strong result in the East German states and has been looking to form a broader opposition coalition in case Social Democrats succeeded in forming the new government.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/fmr-intel-official-bashes-president-trumps-possible-2024-run-claims-president-trump-spreads-disinformation\/\">Fmr. Intel Official Bashes President Trump\u2019s Possible 2024 Run, Claims Trump Spreads \u2018Disinformation\u2019<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(L-R) Parliamentary group co-leader and top candidate of Germany\u2019s Alternative for Germany (AFD) party Alice Weidel, leader and top candidate of Germany\u2019s free democratic FDP party Christian Lindner, leader of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}