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Satis Shroff's ZEITGEIST LITERATURE : Commentary: German Elections & Swiss Deportation (... : Commentary: GERMAN ELECTIONS & SWISS DEPORTATION (Satis Shroff) The language of the Greman Press was rather sharp as it commented t...

Commentary: GERMAN ELECTIONS & SWISS DEPORTATION (Satis Shroff) The language of the Greman Press was rather sharp as it commented the victory of the AfD party yesterday. 'The party has been able to catch the dissatisfied in their big net with slogans of hatred against foreigners, and was against a lof of issues: anti-Ausländer, anti-Islam, anti-Merkel, anti-everything.' wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Spiegel online finds the victory of the rightist populists 'dangerous and a shame.' The commentators are of the opinioon that it was the inner political conflicts and bickerings within the CDU and SPD that led to this debacle at the elections. Instead of pulling on the same rope, the CDU candidate Guido Wolf from Baden-Württemberg and Julia Klöckner from Rheinland Pfalz had vehemently protested against the refugee-politics of Chancellor Merkel. The winners were not only the AfD (established in 2013) but also Maler Dreher (SPD) and,of course, Stuttgart's Win

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