The fire wall will fall

A guest contribution by Vera Lengsfeld

The last two state elections before the 2024 European and East German elections have a clear message for me: the firewall will fall.

The social majority for a bourgeois, liberal-conservative change of course is clearly there – it can and will have to be used in the coming elections. The attempt at moral blackmail of the entire population by a clear small minority is coming to its end.

Those who continue to try to exclude the AfD and its voters in parliament are harming Germany, democracy and themselves.

As their reactions to the elections have shown, the existing parties are unwilling to respond to the clear will of the voters. The signal could not be clearer that Interior Minister Faeser and her migration policy are rejected by the overwhelming majority. Nevertheless, Chancellor Scholz wants to hold on to both.

A third bourgeois, liberal-conservative force is therefore needed for the coming elections, alongside the CDU/CSU and the AfD. The Free Voters are not, the FDP is just doing away with itself.

With the third bourgeois force, the left wall against the new social majority will fall. A highly professional offer, tailored to the respective election campaign, will lead to a reform and consolidation of the current party system.

A Nancy Faeser as the personification of German political incompetence and the Wissler-Gysi-Left and the Lindner-FDP as real-existing, German party anachronisms will disappear as actors or independent entities.

If the SPD is not careful, it will face the same fate.

The best news in conclusion is that the two elections demonstrated the great tactical maturity and wisdom of the electorate. That’s how it should be in a democracy: It is not the press and the public relations machinery that judges the suitability and careers of top politicians, but the voters.

They send clear signals: Markus Söder, Hubert Aiwanger, Boris Rhein, Tarek al-Wazir have received clear confirmation but also clear categorizations.

Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, on the other hand, has received the following signal from the electorate: She is not wanted. If she had an ounce of self-reflection, she would resign. If the will of the voters continues to be ignored, next year’s election results will be even clearer.

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Guest posts always reflect the author’s opinion, not mine. And I believe that contributions from contentious authors are particularly valuable for discussion and democracy. I value my readers as adults and want to offer them different points of view so they can form their own opinions.

Vera Lengsfeld, born in Thuringia in 1952, is a politician and publicist. She was a civil rights activist and a member of the GDR’s first freely elected Volkskammer. From 1990 to 2005, she was a member of the German Bundestag, initially until 1996 for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, and from 1996 for the CDU. Since then she has been working as a freelance author. In 2008, she was honored with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. She runs a blog that I highly recommend. The post first appeared on Vera Lengsfeld’s blog.

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