German Elections 2025

[Yel]

I think it's going to be an eventful one.

I don't know much about Germany other than what you read online. But I hear of cases this where someone insulting a convicted child rapist gets jail time, while the rapist gets no jail and wonder what is going on:

German court gives woman harsher punishment than convicted rapist for calling him 'disgraceful pig'

The woman was found guilty of defaming the man, who was convicted for gang-raping a 15-year-old girl in Hamburg in 2020.

www.deccanherald.com

 

[Codiaeum]

Ah, thank you for setting up the thread, I was hoping for a discussion on here, given that we seem to have quite a number of fellow Germans on the board and I'm frankly done with the German forums I'm usually on.

Yes, that article is really something, as the rapist was "too young" to get jailed, but apparently old enough to take enough offense to being called a pig. Make it make sense. It's one of the things I'm really getting angry about how often sentences are suspended due to age, and age means anything up to 22 years old. Nearly always young men as well.
It'll be an interesting election for sure.

 

[Yel]

Yes, that article is really something, as the rapist was "too young" to get jailed, but apparently old enough to take enough offense to being called a pig. Make it make sense.

I can't find it now but there's a clip of German MPs looking so proud of themselves that police raided someone at dawn for calling someone else a willy.

Meanwhile violent crimes are not investigated and so many cases of even those convinced of the most awful crimes get let off with a slapped wrist.

It's wild how different Germany is to Poland these days.

 

[Codiaeum]

Yes, there is indeed a bit of "performative action" going on these days, whereas the general public, at least from what I hear, would much rather see different things pursued. It'll be interesting to see whether that changes after the election.

 

[Michi]

I'm very worried about tomorrow

 

[Codiaeum]

I'm very worried about tomorrow

Me, too. Everyone I've spoken to seems afraid and a little bit unsettled.

 

[londongirl2001]

As a non-white, Muslim German, I’m over being worried. I’ve known what’s going to happen for a long time. The right wingers have taken over and I’m quite sure they’ll get even more votes in today’s election than the pre-polls indicate. Then Merz will say that it’s the people’s choice to have a CDU/AfD coalition. He knows no shame.
I want to leave Germany (I‘d be „remigrated“ anyway), but my parents who are 80+ still live here. I’d be gone in a second if that wasn’t the case.

 

[Codiaeum]

I’ve a feeling AFD will become second, but if anyone truly is going to form a coalition with them, it won’t be pretty. For such a long time every single one said they wouldn’t do it, but it has happened before.
I’ve a disabled parent and some portion of AFD certainly do not like disabled people….

 

[Michi]

I’ve a feeling AFD will become second, but if anyone truly is going to form a coalition with them, it won’t be pretty. For such a long time every single one said they wouldn’t do it, but it has happened before.
I’ve a disabled parent and some portion of AFD certainly do not like disabled people….

Merz is so going to form a coalition with them. History is repeating itself and nobody seems to have learned anything from it.

 

[Michi]

As a non-white, Muslim German, I’m over being worried. I’ve known what’s going to happen for a long time. The right wingers have taken over and I’m quite sure they’ll get even more votes in today’s election than the pre-polls indicate. Then Merz will say that it’s the people’s choice to have a CDU/AfD coalition. He knows no shame.
I want to leave Germany (I‘d be „remigrated“ anyway), but my parents who are 80+ still live here. I’d be gone in a second if that wasn’t the case.

We're a German Muslim family as well. I'm white but my husband isn’t so he and our kids aren't "German enough" for the Afd. We've seriously discussed where we'd go if they win. I don’t want to leave my homecountry but I need to protect my kids.

 

[Codiaeum]

Eight minutes to go until first results……

 

[Yel]

No surprises with the exit polls. But I really can't see them working with AfD.

 

[Michi]

No surprises with the exit polls. But I really can't see them working with AfD.

Fingers crossed also I hope FDP stays under 5% would serve Lindner right, that self-important twit

 

[Codiaeum]

Guess we’ll truly only know with FDP and BSW when it’s all counted….

 

[Veronicaaa]

Strongest showing for a far right party on a national level since the Second World War, according to the news channel I'm watching.

 

[Michi]

30% voted Afd where I live

 

[londongirl2001]

30% voted Afd where I live

I live in the town centre of Bonn and today during my walk I was really relieved that I do. There have never been any AfD posters and every CDU one has been vandalized. I can’t imagine living somewhere where they actually win elections with a large margin. But maybe that’s what waiting for all of us soon, who knows

 

[Michi]

I live in the town centre of Bonn and today during my walk I was really relieved that I do. There have never been any AfD posters and every CDU one has been vandalized. I can’t imagine living somewhere where they actually win elections with a large margin. But maybe that’s what waiting for all of us soon, who knows

We live in a small town in BW, sadly Afd has been getting more and more votes with every past election. In some small towns/villages around here, they got up to 40%

As a historian, I can’t stop shaking my head. 80 years after the end of WW2 people seem to have forgotten what happened when you vote for Nazis.

PS there is a Weidel poster outside our house, I threw snow at it and gave it the finger whenever I passed by

 

[Welshgal]

German here. It's really not going to be that bad. Merz will hopefully be able to work with the SPD and that's that. He won't even talk to the AfD and all those saying non-white Germans are going to get kicked out are just over exaggerating.
In the future I hope that if someone comes here from any non-eu country and they misbehave / become criminal they get kicked out or put into jail. If they come and work here, then great!

 

[Michi]

German here. It's really not going to be that bad. Merz will hopefully be able to work with the SPD and that's that. He won't even talk to the AfD and all those saying non-white Germans are going to get kicked out are just over exaggerating.
In the future I hope that if someone comes here from any non-eu country and they misbehave / become criminal they get kicked out or put into jail. If they come and work here, then great!

Have you not heard of the Afd's remigration plan?