Exit polls for ARD and ZDF public television showed support for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats at 14%, below the 15.8% they managed in 2019 and far below their showing in Germany’s last national election in 2021.

Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union and made major gains in parliamentary elections Sunday, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to French President Emmanuel Macron.

On a night where the 27-member bloc palpably shifted to the right, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni more than doubled her seats in the EU parliament. And even if the Alternative for Germany extreme right party was hounded by scandal involving candidates, it still rallied enough seats to sweep past the slumping Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Sensing a threat from the far right, the Christian Democrats of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had already shifted further to the right on migration and climate ahead of the elections — and were rewarded by remaining by far the biggest group in the 720-seat European Parliament and de facto brokers of the ever expanding powers of the legislature.

  • @Madison420@lemmy.world
    1•7 months ago

    Yes yes, let’s exclude the evidence showing you’re not correct. Similarly native Americans were considered immigrants not entitled to us citizenship. Do you not remember the whole “they’re savages” let’s exterminate them thing?

    No you’re simply confusing left leaning with left and taking a weirdly myopic view based on that.

    Wrong again, marx said it was necessary for capitalism and benefited the world. That doesn’t imply support it just didn’t imply vehement distaste.

    • @FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0•7 months ago

      Non-citizen and immigrant are not the same. Plenty of immigrants are citizens. In fact, the opposite of “immigrant” is … “native”.

      The next time you meet a Native American, tell them they are considered immigrants. Please post their reaction on YouTube, your video will surely go viral.

      • @Madison420@lemmy.world
        1•6 months ago

        Explain that to the American nativist movement created by immigrant occupiers, you say these things from ignorance of history my friend.

        I am native boss.

        • @FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0•6 months ago

          Then you should easily be able to find a quote by someone in that movement referring to Native Americans as immigrants.

          • @Madison420@lemmy.world
            1•6 months ago

            They call them savages, they’d have to consider them people to consider them immigrants but give me a minute I’m sure someone somewhere said it.

            Similarly, look at you demanding evidence but providing none.