A new anti-Islam political party in Germany has captured more votes than expected in its very first election attempt.
Pegida received nearly 10% of the votes for mayor of Dresden, the movement’s home base.
The party’s results of the voting on Sunday came as a surprise as their weekly demonstrations in Dresden have steadily attracted fewer and fewer participants from a high point of 25,000.
Nevertheless, Tatjana Festerling’s 9.6% gave her only fourth position. The only opinion poll taken before the election showed a gain of just 1-2% of votes.
A run-off vote will be held on 5 July as no candidate secured an absolute majority. The highest proportion, 36%, went to the joint candidate for the Social Democrats, Greens and the far-left Linke. The pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) took 31.7%.
The conservative Christian Democrat candidate (Chancellor Merkel’s party) came third with 15.4% of the vote, making Dresden yet another large city which the party has lost.
While major cities in the west have become accustomed to a workforce boosted by immigrants, particularly from Turkey, areas in the east have had few foreign residents. Dresden’s foreign population is only about 7% and its region, Saxony, has one of the smallest immigrant numbers at 2.8% owing in large part to its former Communist control.
Pegida (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident) was founded late last year, but has already seen internal strife and scandal among its leaders.
During her campaign, Festerling, 51, urged a “renaissance” of German culture and condemned asylum seekers who have “left family and home because here there’s somewhere nice to live and you get dough from the state.”
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Also Macca must be an odd physical specimen. In his posts easily achieving what is physically impossible for a normal human - disappearing up his own a**e and yet somehow still typing. And unfortunately for the rest of us, including his regularly embarrassed parents, still breathing.
How is it in his rantings he is so against 'leftist traitors' when antifa is actually 'anti-fascist'. Nothing to do with that Portuguese obsession - skin colour.
From their website"We aim to oppose the far-right's electoral politics and where possible by means of direct action"
Granted political thought is still in its infancy in Portugal but mixing up left and right just confirms that, in Portugal, it really is indistinguishable !
http://www.antifa.org.uk/About us.html
Macca - please do everyone a favour. Next time you are posting in your unique position ... firstly exhale then, regardless of anything happening around you -wars, revolution, forest fire - keep your lungs empty. Try it.
Are you a patriot or a traitor to your own people and culture?
Dont we the indigenous european white people have a right to be proud of our selves? Our culture?
Or is this reserved only for people from africa, middle east, aborigines etc?
re you one of these antifa looneys?
Antifa is a code word, for anti white
Islam was stopped at gates of vienna, which is not 80 miles from paris.
Winston churchill, said, the facists of the future will call themselves, anti fascists.
How right churchill was.
People are now waking up pretty fast to the left pc inverted madness.
A bit off the wall even for a masquerading Portuguese ! Writing this in Portugal - a country so recently entirely Muslim.
Presumably fully aware that the Muslim invasion and colonisation of Europe reached to within 80 miles of Paris. Swallowing for centuries Portugal and Spain and most of Italy. Greece only shedding its Muslim rulers 200 years ago.
And don't start me on how the Fatima Shrine was so manufactured. Tailored.
Not least in locking up Sister Lucia in a silent order for her lifetime ... as she just would not stop having visions of Our Lady ! Which were hard to explain away as she had been squirreled off for years to Spain so as not to confuse the 'Followers of the (Portuguese) Miracle'.