It was coming, has been predicted for some time now so it was only a matter of time for the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to cruise to victory in yet another election.
However, it isn’t a landslide victory nor one that hasn’t left sour grapes in the mouth of the Chancellor and her followers as her popularity reduced significantly, infant the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has entered the national parliament for the first time.
Mrs Merkel’s CDU/CSU alliance took between 33.5% of the vote, well ahead of the second placed Social Democratic Party with 21% which would be its worst result since World War Two.
But in a major shock, the AfD took 13% in Sunday’s vote making it the country’s third biggest political force.
It is now heading for the opposition benches of the Bundestag lower house – the first time a hard-right openly anti-immigration party with so many seats has entered parliament since World War Two.
As one of the frontline power player in the EU, what does her partial victory mean for the EU which only last week the President of the European Commission gave a speech on the state of the union where he laid down a vision for further integration in Europe when he should have been talking about reforming the organisation’s immigration policy, a policy that has cost the German chancellor a landslide victory, will she take a look at the signs on the wall or will it just be business as usual for the EU, only time will tell.
