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Green Wave
« on: October 12, 2020, 11:29:51 pm »
OLD CONTENT

Not all bad news coming out of the 2019 EU election:

news.yahoo.com/green-wave-eu-vote-amid-climate-crisis-194422602.html

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Berlin (AFP) - With double-digit scores across Europe's biggest countries including a stunning 20 percent in Germany, the Greens bagged record gains in EU elections on Sunday with younger voters leading calls for action to halt global warming.

The environmental party doubled its score in Germany from the last EU elections in 2014, knocking the Social Democrats off their traditional second place.

In France, the Greens were number three with 12 percent, while in Austria, Ireland and the Netherlands, they garnered double-digits.

In Britain, they were on 12.4 percent, nearly double their previous score, and beating the ruling Conservatives into fifth place.

"To see The Green Party beating the Conservatives so far in these elections is truly amazing. Something seismic is happening in British and European politics," said Alexandra Phillips, Green Party candidate for South East England.

With the two main traditional EU blocs -- the conservative EPP and the centre-left Social Democrats projected to lose ground, the Greens could end up as kingmakers in the European Parliament.
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In Ireland, Green Party candidate Ciaran Cuffe was on course to top the first preference tally in Dublin on 23 percent of the vote, with the Greens also seen in contention in the country's two other constituencies.'

Our enemies are not happy about it:

oklahoman.com/article/feed/9917921/green-wave-europe-wakes-up-to-climate-concerns-after-vote

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Alexander Gauland, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany, declared the Greens "our main enemy."

"The Greens will destroy this country, and our job must and will be to fight the Greens," said Gauland, whose party has claimed that climate change isn't a man-made phenomenon and that efforts to tackle it will harm Germany's economy.

In addition to pushing for action on climate change, the Greens have generally positioned themselves as a counterweight to anti-immigration parties such as Alternative for Germany, which have decried the influx of migrants from the Middle East.

Greens tend to have a good grasp of what Western civilization is about via their own field of specialization, as they have been watching for a long time how those who damage the environment least are the ones who have to suffer the worst effects of the damage:

edition.cnn.com/2019/03/31/africa/poorest-hit-the-hardest-climate-change-mozambique-intl/index.html

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"This is one of the poorest places in the world, which is paying the price of climate change provoked mostly, not only but mostly, by the developed world," the 73-year-old added.
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Many of the world's poorest live in equatorial regions, which already have high average temperatures. This means a tiny rise can be sharply felt and lead to harsher impacts, according to a 2018 study in Geophysical Research Letter.

Meanwhile, most of the world's richest nations are the largest emission producers -- by burning fossil fuels and modern farming practices that produce climate change causing emissions.

Using climate model projections, the paper found that if global average surface temperatures reached the 1.5 or 2 degree Celsius (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) limit -- set by the Paris Agreement -- countries like Indonesia or the Democratic Republic of the Congo would feel the changes brought on by global warming more keenly than higher latitude countries like the United Kingdom.

https://europeangreens.eu/

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The following article is a good introduction to how the issues link up from a Green perspective:

www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-refugees-open-borders/

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Open Borders Must Be Part of Any Response to the Climate Crisis
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The ice is thin and getting thinner. On May 16, one Italian and four English scientists published the results of 25 years of satellite monitoring of the Antarctic ice sheets. Their findings were discouraging: The vast Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are thinning five times faster than they were in 1992; 24 percent of West Antarctica is now “in a state of dynamical imbalance.” Four days later, another study predicted that under a “business as usual” scenario—i.e., the current plan—sea levels will swell by more than two meters by the end of the century, resulting in the displacement of 187 million people. That figure does not count those displaced by other climate-related catastrophes: desertification, drought, wildfires, floods, crop failures, hurricanes, etc. Even so, the authors wrote, there will “clearly” be “profound consequences for humanity.”

We are already beginning to suffer some of them. The racism and fear that dominate the terms of the “immigration debate” prevent us from seeing it, but the climate crisis is one of the major factors spurring the movements of human beings across borders. Severe drought in Central America has been pushing Hondurans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans north through Mexico to the United States. Droughts in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and the Lake Chad Basin have been driving many thousands from both north and sub-Saharan Africa to risk the journeys across the Sahara and the Mediterranean to Europe. A sustained drought in Syria caused massive internal displacement, helping to spark an uprising that degraded into war, causing hundreds of thousands to flee across borders that, for all their apparent permanence, didn’t exist a little more than a century ago.

The timing could not be worse. In the absence of an actual world war, national borders have never in human history been as militarized as they are today. Borders, like nations, present themselves as natural and eternal. They are neither, but movement is. Humans have been on the move for hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of years. For centuries, institutions like slavery and serfdom restricted the movements of the sectors of society that did most of the work, but until just over 100 years ago, per John C. Torpey’s The Invention of the Passport, there was no “consensus for the view that states had an unequivocal right to bar foreigners from entry into their territory.” Passports were not generally carried or required until the First World War. The United States had no Border Patrol until 1924. Borders as we now understand them—the fixed and impermeable shells of what the political economist Karl Polanyi called “the new, crustacean type of nation”—did not exist when my grandparents were born.

Over the last hundred years, borders have come to function much as serfdom did until the 19th century: as a means of restricting the movements of the poor. Some of us are free to hop continents, suffering only the discomforts of economy seats; for the wealthy, scholar Parvathi Raman points out, “open borders are already a reality.” Others, who the accident of birth deprived of the right brand of passport, die by the tens of thousands in the deserts and in the Mediterranean. Thousands more survive the journey only to be detained, caged, tortured, and starved, or dumped back where they started.

The planet’s most prosperous residents, meanwhile, have not been gracious about their good fortune. Manufacturing a “crisis” at the borders in order to justify their further hardening has for decades been a project of the super-rich, one achieved through years of investment in think tanks, media, and political candidates spouting “populist” rhetoric. Some of the individuals who have profited most from the creation of the climate crisis are the same ones demanding that the fictional boundaries that disfigure the planet be reinforced with a violence that is all too real. One quick for-instance: The main, long-term funder of the anti-immigrant movement in the United States is the Colcom Foundation, which relies on the fortune of the Mellon Scaife family, and hence of Gulf Oil, now Chevron. To protect their investments, perhaps, Scaife family foundations have also funneled tens of millions into climate-change denial.

If the 20th century offered just one lesson, it is that the ice is always thinner than we think. The centrifugal forces holding nations together are the same ones that can tear the world apart. Ours is already beginning to fissure. In 2015 it took the arrival of fewer than a million refugees, about half of them from Syria, to push a continent of more than 700 million into a panic that continues to threaten the European Union with dissolution. (For comparison, imagine 700 of the most comfortable people human history has ever known all freaking out because a single tired stranger is knocking at the gate.) In the United States, a country of 329 million, the presence of 11 million people without the appropriate papers or levels of melanin has been enough to bring national politics to a near standstill, send an obvious cretin to the White House, and rehabilitate the concentration camp as a viable form of housing for children.

This is just the beginning—of the climate crisis, and the political unravelings that will continue to accompany it. And so, it is time to shout, and loudly, that the freedom of all the earth’s people to move across borders must be at the center of any response to the climate crisis.

Note "populist" has been put in "". The ridiculousness of anti-refugee rhetoric calling itself "populist" is becoming increasingly apparent.

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The Green Wave continues in Austria:

greenworld.org.uk/article/austrian-green-party-wins-historic-share-vote-snap-election

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The Austrian Green Party has received its highest ever share of the vote in a general election after winning 14 per cent of all votes cast in yesterday’s (29 September) snap election, raising the prospect of the party entering into a coalition with the victorious centre-right Austrian People's Party (ÖVP).

The Greens 10.2 per cent rise from the last election in 2017 has seen the party go from having zero seats in the National Council to 23, after previously missing the four per cent minimum threshold to qualify for seats in 2017.

The Greens’ share of 14 per cent put the party it in fourth place behind the ÖVP on 37.1 per cent, Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) on 21.7 per cent, and the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) on 16.1 per cent.
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Results show that support for the FPÖ has fallen by a third following the Ibiza scandal, in contrast to the increase in votes for the Greens, perhaps reflecting the surge in support for Green Parties across Europe, due to increasing concern over climate change.

The Green success has brought the party lots of cause to celebrate and the potential for a coalition with the ÖVP could see environmental issues brought to the forefront of Austrian politics. However, support for a union is divided within the Green Party, with some members unsure of the conservative social policies and wary of Kurz’s previous alliance with the far-right.

Speaking to Ruptly at the party’s headquarters, Green candidate Sibylle Hamann, said: "Our positions are clear, we are standing for a radical change in the Austrian climate politics. We want social fairness and radical transparency and control. Whoever wants to do this with us and wants to achieve it with us is more than welcome. If it will be Sebastian Kurz, it's up to him."

I agree with this approach. Greens need to demonstrate how much more they can do in government (even as minor coalition partners) to further energize people to support them long-term, including with a view to eventually making them major coalition partners.

Further analysis:

en.rfi.fr/environment/20190930-thunberg-effect-climate-worries-help-revive-austrias-greens

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The Greens’ revival comes just two years after the party was booted out of parliament after failing to win so much as a seat. It also follows EU parliamentary elections in May – during which green parties across the bloc enjoyed their strongest showing yet.
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For Quentin Genard, from the Brussels-based environmental thinktank E3G, the results in Austria add to growing evidence that environmental concerns are reaching the top of Europe’s political agenda. “Austria not an isolated case – far from it,” he says.

“This is part of a wider trend … Green issues and environmentally friendly parties are getting a lot of traction at the moment – largely because people on the street calling for climate action sends a powerful message to policymakers.”

At the very least, Greens should aim to overtake far-right parties. This has not yet been successful:

slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/austria-freedom-party-far-right-election.html

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The real takeaway from Sunday’s election is the incredible resilience of the FPÖ, which does not bode well for those thinking that the far right will cease to be a factor in European politics in the decades ahead.

The FPÖ promotes itself as the chief protector of Austrian identity and social welfare, both under siege by an influx of foreigners. Once untouchable in mainstream Austrian politics, it formed a government with Kurz’s center-right party after its impressive showing in 2017. Its most recent fall from grace is less a sign of voters turning away from the far right than the result of very specific—and likely temporary—circumstances.
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Nonetheless, the future will be brighter for the FPÖ than what many currently suspect.

Sunday’s election showed that the FPÖ has expanded its core support from 10 percent in 2002 to 15 or 16 percent in 2019. Under the leadership of Strache, supported by a core team consisting of members of German nationalist fraternities called Burschenschaften, the once-divided party developed a unified far-right, populist message. Despite the ongoing fights over style and personal behavior, there are no longer ideological differences within the party.

At its heart, the FPÖ remains a populist opposition party that will continue to capture the sentiments of many of those who feel like they have “lost” due to globalization. Promoting its particular brand of Heimat identity politics, the party will keep on playing on the fears of a large segment of Austrian society regarding illegal immigration and its impact on the pensions, as well as the health care systems and job security of Austrians. The party will be helped by a perceived inability of the other parties to address these “politically incorrect” issues. Simplified, populist slogans rather than concrete policy proposals were what made the party appealing in the first place. Consequently, following the dismal results on Sunday, the FPÖ leadership was quick to announce that it will assume its traditional role as an opposition party and not seek a new coalition government with the ÖVP. While this position may possibly change in the coming months, the FPÖ will without a doubt be able to attract many a disgruntled voter unhappy with the current state of affairs once the current scandals blow over.

It would not be at all out of place for Greens to start building a paramilitary wing for the express purpose of preparing to fight the far-right physically.

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The Green Wave is even (to our enemies' annoyance) partially mitigating what would otherwise have been total normalization of cruelty towards refugees in Denmark:

vdare.com/articles/moral-of-denmark-disaster-the-left-hates-the-west

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the SDP had voted with the coalition led by Venestre (translates as “Left”, but actually center-right conservatives) to ban the burka and niqab, seize jewelry from refugees (on the theory that if someone is receiving welfare, they should not have jewelry worth thousands of dollars ), process asylum-seekers outside Europe, and cap non-Western immigration. But in order to form a “Left Bloc” coalition—with Greens and Socialists, who favor Denmark’s wholesale destruction—immigration policies are now officially to be “softened.”

During the election, Frederiksen pledged focus on “repatriation” rather than “integration.” But this has now changed to a desire to “improve conditions for families of rejected asylum-seekers and recommence accepting refugees under the UN’s quota system.” A plan to house asylum-seekers on an uninhabited island in the Baltic Sea has also been revoked [Denmark’s new government softens line on migration, By Emma Wallis, Info Migrants, July 8, 2019]. And the Left Block coalition has also overturned what they now claim is a “silly” law mandating that you had to live in Denmark for nine years before you could claim citizenship [Denmark Removes “Silly” Requirement for Citizenship Forms, The Local, September 27, 2019].
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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2020, 11:33:32 pm »
OLD CONTENT contd.

www.yahoo.com/news/austria-kurz-optimistic-government-deal-132533707.html

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(Bloomberg) -- Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz expects to strike a deal to govern in a coalition with the environmentalist Greens by mid-January, breaking new ground in Austrian politics half a year after his alliance with nationalists ended in scandal.

Kurz, 33, and Werner Kogler, his 58-year-old counterpart at the Greens, said they will try to iron out any outstanding issues and agree on a roster of ministers over the coming days, and that the risk of failure is diminishing by the day. They remained vague on the substance of the future government’s program.

“Our voters have given us different mandates, hence we’ll seek a new political culture that is needed when groups that are so diverse form a government,” Kogler said. “We’ll try as a government to be a model for how to bridge contradictions we’ve had in this country for years.”

A pact between Kurz’s center-right, traditionalist Christian People’s Party and the Greens -- who combine left-leaning urban as well as more conservative rural constituencies -- would be the first such coalition in Austria since the environmentalists entered Austria’s political scene in the 1980s. It combines the two clear winners of national elections held on Sept. 29.

The deal is also an about-turn for Kurz, who moved his party to the right and governed with the nationalist Freedom Party for 17 months before that pact collapsed after a scandal over a sting video shot on Ibiza.

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Update:

www.yahoo.com/news/austrian-conservatives-greens-strike-years-220748930.html

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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz struck a coalition deal on Wednesday with the Greens to ensure his return to power and bring the left-wing party into government for the first time, three months after Kurz won a parliamentary election.

The deal marks a swing left for Kurz, whose last coalition was with the far-right Freedom Party. It also means Austria will join fellow European Union member states Sweden and Finland in having the Greens in government, albeit in a junior role, at a time of growing calls for urgent action on climate change.
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For the Greens, many of whose supporters viscerally oppose Kurz and his trademark hard line on immigration, going into government with Kurz was a trade-off between the compromises of power politics and the chance to shape policy after campaigning for rapid action on climate change.

The Greens should build a hypothetical backup coalition with other left-leaning parties ready to go in the event the present coalition breaks down. They should then make sure Kurz is aware of this.

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us.yahoo.com/news/merkels-party-punished-voters-hamburg-125027969.html

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Angela Merkel's CDU party were handed their worst-ever result in the Northern city on Sunday (February 23).

Hamburg CDU leader Marcus Weinberg looked downbeat as the results came in - They scraped just 11.2% of the vote.

Sunday's election came in the wake of the decision to step aside by the national party leader and Merkel's protégée Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.

That move came after an eastern branch of the party voted with the AfD to install a state premier from a third party against her wishes, thus breaking a postwar consensus among the main parties not to work with the far-right.

The AfD just scraped into the Hamburg parliament, bucking trends of increased support.

The ballot came just days after a racist gunmen shot dead 11 people - including himself - in the Germany town of Hanau.

A poll released in a German newspaper found that 60% of respondents believed that the party were partly responsible for right-wing violence in the country.

Preliminary results put the SPD, who share power with the conservatives at the national government, down from the last vote in 2015 but still by the far the biggest party in Hamburg.

Winners of the night were the Greens - who almost doubled their vote - reflecting their national strength driven by growing fears about climate change. Many predicting a green surge in the next national election.

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voiceofeurope.com/2020/04/germany-leftist-officials-push-to-import-migrants-amid-pandemic/

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Dirk Behrendt of the Green party who serves as Minister of Justice and Anti-Discrimination in Berlin, argued that migrants from Greece should be moved to Berlin where they can be housed in unoccupied hotels, German weekly newspaper Junge Freheit reports.

“We have a lot of vacant hotels in Berlin that could also be used to accommodate refugees,” Behrendt said.

“We have capacities,” he added. “The fact that the people of Lesbos [Greece] live in makeshift tents in the rain and cold is unworthy of the European Union.”

German officials have been discussing importing migrants from Greece since December. Initially, the State of Berlin wanted to send a plane to pick-up the 1,500 hundred migrants in Greece but it required a federal landing permit to do so.

“If something does not happen very quickly at the federal level – and for me that is more a matter of hours than days – then Berlin is also willing to take its own steps together with civil society organizations and fly people from Lesbos,” Behrendt said.

Greens are some of the only people who are actually trying to help those who need help most, something that we used to expect from politicians in general at least during emergencies.

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Rightists frequently ask how it benefits Greens, whose primary concern is environmentalism, to side with anti-racists on social issues. This article might provide an answer:

www.vice.com/en_ca/article/v7ggqx/people-of-colour-experience-climate-grief-more-deeply-than-white-people

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We are not only disproportionately affected by the climate crisis, but we carry a pain that comes from a long history of racial terror.

When the wildfires hit Australia last year, Bee Cruse was horrified at the sight of the red sky, the black ash falling like snow, and the smoke choking the whole East Coast.

The fires were a direct reminder of the British genocide against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people like her,
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We are not only disproportionately affected by the climate crisis—breathing in more pollution, living in communities with higher temperatures, suffering from more medical conditions, experiencing more natural disasters, and being displaced at much higher rates—but we carry the pain of the climate crisis deep inside us.
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our grief—and our anger—is rooted in centuries of painful history, and the current ecological violence hurled at our communities.
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“For Indigenous people, climate grief comes from when they’re first displaced by fossil fuel companies, by drilling, by fracking infrastructure that makes Indigenous communities be moved from their place of origin, their place that they have a relationship with. (Our) relationship with the land is the first thing that we care about,” Bastida said.
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Without colonization, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the genocide and oppression of Indigenous peoples around the world, we likely would be living in a different reality.

Research has bolstered the idea that white supremacy has led to the climate crisis. Scientists from University College London found that the mass genocide that accompanied the colonization of the Americas in the 15th century permanently altered Earth’s climate, due to “a huge swathe of abandoned agricultural land” that “pulled down enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to eventually chill the planet.”

Ravenous for the mass production of lucrative commodities such as salt, cotton, and sugar, the slavemasters and colonists stripped the land in what’s now known as Canada and the United States, the Caribbean, and South America, murdering countless Africans and Indigenous peoples along the way.
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Andom Ghebreghiorgis, Congressional candidate for New York’s 16th District, recalls a trip he took to see his family in Eritrea in 2017, travelling from the capital Asmara to Keren.

“We were leaving the Highlands and the mountains, going towards lower lands. My uncle was pointing out trees that another one my uncles—when he was governor of the area about 20 years ago—had planted as a reforestation effort,” Ghebreghiorgis told me. “But there weren’t many trees anymore. It was brown everywhere, and almost the entire land had turned into dust.”

Seeing that, Ghebreghiorgis said, was a jolting first-hand experience of Africa’s desertification, felt most by people who have not contributed anything to global climate change.
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Those nightmares are a daily reality for people of colour, who are too often left behind. When ecological disasters strike, white people often receive resources long before those resources reach communities of colour. A March 2019 NPR report found that out of more than 40,000 records in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) database, a staggering 85 percent of post-disaster buyouts went to white, non-Hispanic families.
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“Because Black, Indigenous, and brown communities are the most affected, it is indicative of not only more grief, but also more action. My personal climate grief was addressed when I started being an activist, having a purpose, (saying) ‘I’m not gonna let this happen.’”

Heglar says that too often, the white-led climate community leans on the idea of hope, which can lead to inaction.

Hope is “such a white concept,” Heglar said. “You’re supposed to have the courage first, then you have the action, then you have the hope. But white people put hope at the front. Their insistence on hope for all of these years has led to exactly where? Nowhere.”

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Of course Greens are more inclined to support China! Greens are more likely to understand the importance of population reduction. And who has been the world leader in state control over reproduction for the last several decades?

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https://www.insidernj.com/author-chris-hedges-announces-cd12-run-green-party-candidate/

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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2020, 11:38:46 pm »
Latest:

https://www.politico.eu/article/former-austrian-far-right-leader-falls-short-in-comeback-bid/

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Heinz-Christian Strache, the former Austrian far-right leader forced to resign last year in a major political scandal, lost his comeback bid in local Vienna elections Sunday after his party failed to garner enough votes to enter the city council.

Strache's party — Team HC Strache — won just 3.6 percent of the vote, well below the 5 percent necessary to hold seats in the council, according to projections by Austrian state broadcasting. The Social Democrats, who have governed Vienna since World War II without interruption, came in first with 42 percent and are expected to renew their coalition with the Greens, who won 14 percent. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's People's Party, which succeeded in winning over disgruntled far-right voters, more than doubled its result to nearly 19 percent.

At the link, a graph shows that Greens increased their vote share from 11.84% in 2015. FPO, in the same interval, collapsed from 30.8% to 7.7%.
 
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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2020, 05:16:33 am »
https://us.yahoo.com/news/ardern-makes-room-greens-zealands-075653362.html

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Despite a landslide election victory for her Labour Party, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Saturday that the Green Party would be given two ministerial positions to help advance their "shared goals".

The announcement came after Green Party members voted to accept a "cooperation agreement" to support Labour.

This should happen more often.
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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2021, 12:32:00 am »
The topic is Merkel's successor:

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17000/germany-armin-laschet-merkel

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There is no guarantee that Laschet, a 59-year-old German of Belgian descent, will become the next chancellor, or that he will even be the CDU's chancellor candidate. Germany's political landscape, with six main parties and more than 30 secondary parties, is highly fractured. As a result, it will be difficult for any one party to obtain an absolute majority in parliament.

The Greens are now the second-most popular party in Germany, according to recent polls. Even if the CDU emerges victorious in the national election on September 26, Laschet, in order to retain the chancellorship, almost certainly will be forced to form a coalition government. The Greens are opposed to many of Laschet's positions.

If Laschet were unable to forge a governing coalition with the Greens, they may decide to bypass the CDU altogether and negotiate a three-way coalition with the Social Democrats and the radical Left Party. Such a coalition would bring a swift end the continuity espoused by Merkel and Laschet.
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Laschet has come under fire, especially from the Greens, for past comments in which he defended Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In March 2014, at the time that Russia annexed Crimea, Laschet criticized what he described as the "marketable anti-Putin populism" (marktgängigen Anti-Putin-Populismus) in Germany. He added: "Forty percent of the gas that we need for our modern gas-fired power plants comes from Russia."

In March 2018, former Russian intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with the military nerve agent Novichok in England. Western countries responded by deporting Russian diplomats, but Laschet defended Putin.

In January 2021, in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Laschet said that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany should proceed as planned, despite the arrest in Russia of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. He said: "The question of whether gas should reach us by land or by sea is unrelated to Navalny's detention."

The Nord Stream 2 project is opposed by many European countries, as well as by both Democrats and Republicans in the United States, because it would increase Germany's energy dependency on Russia.

Laschet has been ridiculed as a "Putin understander" (Putin-Versteher), a pejorative term for appeasers of the Russian strongman. Ralf Fücks, a former Green Party politician who is now head of the Center for Liberal Modernity, a think tank, elaborated:

    "You get the impression that Armin Laschet still believes in a partnership with Putin's Russia. He ignores the fact that there simultaneously is both a geopolitical and a value conflict with Moscow. This conflict requires a certain degree of severity, a policy of deterrence and also a policy of sanctions. It is wishful thinking that all foreign policy conflicts can be resolved through dialogue and goodwill."

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Veteran European affairs commentator Wolfgang Münchau wrote about the potential difficulties in reaching a coalition deal between Laschet and the Greens:

    "Laschet is the closest you get in German politics — outside the AfD — to being a climate change denier. His successful campaign theme was protection of German industry against ambitious climate-change action. Should the Greens and the CDU/CSU ever end up trying to a form a coalition, I would expect very difficult negotiations to follow. The two parties are at the opposite ends of the most important political debate in Germany this decade — on the trajectory towards internationally agreed emissions targets....

    "One of the foreseeable conflicts in the relationship between Germany and the EU will be on fiscal policy. The consensus view among international economists might have changed in favor of higher deficits during economic crises. But the debt brake, Germany's balanced-budget debt rule that is firmly anchored in the constitution, is still in force....

    "The CDU's innate fiscal conservatism and Laschet's support for coal mining and coal-generated power are formidable obstacles to a CDU/CSU/Green coalition, which may be the only viable governing option after the September elections. I cannot see the Greens signing up to Laschet's agenda."

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Laschet is staunchly pro-Israel and has actively cultivated relations with the Jewish state, which does nearly one billion euros a year in trade with North Rhine-Westphalia. In September 2018, his first major overseas trip as state premier was to Israel. During a subsequent visit to Israel in 2020, he opened a representative office in Tel Aviv. At the time he said:

    "Our state's office in Tel Aviv is another milestone in the relations between North Rhine-Westphalia and Israel. In no other country does our state have an office with such a comprehensive mission.

    "Our office in Israel will bring the cooperation between our two states to a new level. We want to further strengthen the exchange and the meetings between universities and municipal, cultural and educational institutions and civil service groups. That's a sign of our appreciation to our friends in Israel."

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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2021, 10:31:57 pm »
https://us.yahoo.com/news/green-leader-faces-backlash-claiming-190622609.html

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Green leader faces backlash after claiming Royal scandals mean Scotland should ditch The Queen
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The Scottish Greens have been accused of indulging in “pathetic politics” after claiming allegations of racism within the Royal family showed the monarchy should be scrapped in an independent Scotland.
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“Their shooting and hunting estates can be put to better use serving the local communities and creating more jobs.”

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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2021, 05:47:02 am »

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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2021, 10:15:41 pm »
How to know that our backing of the Greens is the correct decision:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/germanys-greens-vow-scrap-russian-101908009.html

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Germany's Greens vow to scrap Russian gas pipeline after election
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In common with the United States, which has imposed sanctions on some entities involved in the Gazprom-led project, the Greens say it entrenches the wrong response to Russia's annexation of Crimea and its arming of separatists in east Ukraine.

"The pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is not only a political project because of its climate and energy implications but also because it causes damage on the geopolitical level - especially given the situation in Ukraine - and therefore it should be stopped," read the programme, adding that Russia was increasingly becoming an "authoritarian state".
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A poll by the Forsa research institute this week put the Greens on 21%, behind the conservatives whose share has fallen to 29%
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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2021, 12:16:32 am »
https://www.yahoo.com/news/support-merkels-party-falls-further-231041230.html

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Support for Merkel's party falls further in poll, Greens closing in

BERLIN (Reuters) - Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has fallen further, a poll released on Sunday indicated, with the ecologist Greens closing in to just two points behind them ahead of a national election September.

With popular frustration growing over Merkel's government's management of the coronavirus pandemic, support for Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian CSU sister party - together dubbed the ‘Union’ - dropped to 25%, the Kantar poll showed.
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Support for the Greens rose 1 percentage point to 23%, according to the poll for Bild am Sonntag by Kantar, which canvassed 1,447 voters between March 18-24.

The left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD), currently in an awkward ‘grand coalition’ with the Union, were steady at 17%. The business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) were unchanged on 10%, while the far-left Linke rose one point to 9%.

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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2021, 11:20:15 pm »
Our enemies complain about Greens showing solidarity:

https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/03/a-mosque-too-far/

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The expansion of the Eyyub Sultan Mosque in Strasbourg has caused controversy because it is managed by Millî Görüs, and was recently offered a €2.5 million grant by the Green mayor of Strasbourg to help with the construction.
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Europe Ecology Greens [Europe Écologie Les Verts, EELV] announced Saturday its intention to bring a complaint for defamation against ministers Marlene Schiappa [Citizenship] and Gérald Darmanin [Interior], who oppose the Green Party mayor of Strasbourg concerning a possible subsidy for the construction of a mosque.

“In accord with the executive bureau and Jeanne Barseghian, the mayor of Strasbourg, EELV will lodge a complaint for defamation against Marlene Schiappa and Gérald Darmanin,” declared Julien Bayou, national secretary of EELV, in a statement to the federal council, of which Agence France Presse has obtained a copy. “We have taken the decision yesterday (Friday) evening and the complaint will be lodged during the course of next week,” stated the head of the Greens.


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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2021, 10:31:58 pm »
Why our enemies dislike Greens (and why we like them):

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/04/03/swedish-green-party-white-women-must-move-for-foreigners-to-take-power/

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Swedish Green Party spokeswoman Märta Stenevi has claimed that in order for foreign minority women to get power in Sweden, native-born white Swedish women must move aside.

Stenevi made her statements during a podcast interview after being asked about the differences between the voting patterns of male and female voters in the country.
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When asked why so many women vote for the Greens compared to men, Stenevi stated that power may be a factor and stated that those with “privileges” may feel threatened over a new division of power.

Going even further, she stated that not only must Swedish men give up on power, but native-born Swedish white women must do so as well: “If foreign-born women are to gain power, white, domestically born women will have to move.”

Similar comments have been made in the past by members of the Swedish Green Party, such as in 2018 when local Green Party members in the town of Eslöv suggested that native Swedes who had a problem with multiculturalism should just leave.

“There is another party that wants to persuade immigrants to relocate,”  Lars Ahlfors, chairman of the local Greens, said, referring to the anti-mass migration Sweden Democrats, and added: “We think that if you do not enjoy multiculturalism, there should be an opportunity to give a helping hand to move.”
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Last year, in the southern region of Skåne, the Greens made headlines again after suggesting that in the wake of the anti-mass migration, pro-family Polish government oversaw the introduction of new restrictions on abortions, Swedish taxpayers should foot the bill for Polish women to have abortion procedures in Sweden.

Alternatively, Swedish taxpayers could pay for airstrikes on Poland.

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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2021, 10:10:21 pm »

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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2021, 12:48:38 am »
https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-business-favours-greens-candidate-152416351.html

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The Civey poll of 1,500 executives for WirtschaftsWoche magazine, conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday, showed 26.5% favoured Baerbock for chancellor, ahead of Christian Lindner of the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) on 16.2%.

Armin Laschet, who saw off a challenge from Bavarian rival Markus Soeder to clinch the conservative alliance's candidacy on Tuesday, followed on 14.3% support, with the Social Democrat's Olaf Scholz on 10.5%.

Some 32.5% of respondents were undecided.

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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2021, 11:38:29 pm »
It isn't just us hyping things up:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/german-greens-see-10-fold-171006763.html

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Germany’s Green party has seen a 10-fold increase in membership applications as it shapes up to be a serious rival to Angela Merkel's CDU in elections later this year.

The increase, which comes a week after it was announced that Annalena Baerbock will lead the party at the federal election in September, represented the most membership applications the party has ever received in a single week.

"The wave of new applicants in the last few days is an absolute record in party history," Greens Federal Managing Director Michael Kellner told the German Press Agency on Sunday. “Things are going well for us and that puts me in a good mood.”

Second in the polls, the Greens are considered to have a significant chance of taking Germany’s top job for the first time when Merkel’s 16-year reign ends this Autumn.

The party showed a unified front after 40-year-old Baerbock’s surprise announcement over favourite Robert Habeck. The pair were selected as co-leaders three years ago, representing a victory for the party’s pragmatic bloc over its radical flank.

In the week after Baerbock’s announcement, the Greens received 2,159 membership applications – roughly 10 times the usual number. It now has 107,300 members.

Meanwhile, the rival CDU has been plagued by infighting in recent months. Once unassailable under Merkel’s leadership, the party has only just emerged from a bruising leadership battle which has seen their standing in the polls fall by 10 points since January. They now command just 27 per cent of popular support, slightly ahead of the Greens on 23 per cent.

If the poll were held today, Baerbock’s Greens would be able to bring together a coalition of centre-left and left-leaning parties to form a government.

Even better:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/german-contender-wants-tougher-stance-172916957.html

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The Greens emerged from the pacifist and environmental movements of the 1970s and 1980s, but in recent years have backed limited military deployments abroad, provided they are tied to U.N. resolutions.

UN resolutions? No problem!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel

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Since the creation of the Council in 2006, it has resolved almost more resolutions condemning Israel than on the rest of the world combined.



https://www.gruene.de/
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Re: Green Wave
« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2021, 10:05:17 pm »
Now in the lead!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/merkel-german-greens-lead-polls-134953660.html

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The German Green Party has overtaken Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and is leading the polls ahead of September’s elections.

A dramatic surge in support means the Greens could be on course to stage an upset and seize the chancellery from the CDU after Mrs Merkel’s 15 years in power.

German newspapers even asked this week whether Annalena Baerbock, the Green candidate for chancellor, could be "the new Mrs Merkel".

Three polls released in the past week have given the Greens a clear lead, with between 25 and 28 per cent of the vote to 22 to 24 per cent for the CDU, while a fourth has the two parties tied on 23 per cent.

While not enough for an outright majority, that level of support would make the Greens the largest party in parliament and give them a mandate to form a coalition government.
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