On September 8, I predicted that Angela Merkel will be reelected German Chancellor.

To no one’s surprise, yesterday’s election indeed re-elected Merkel – for whom patriotism, nationalism and the German flag are bad things – for a fourth term.

But there are two interesting results of yesterday’s election:

• Merkel’s „conservative” CDU/CSU party received its worst result in almost 70 years, with only 33% of the votes.
• The media are also bemoaning the historic win of what they call Germany’s „right-wing, nationalist” AfD party – Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany). Ranking third with 12.6% of the votes, AfD has won its first parliamentary seats.

AfD’s platform is anti-immigration – what it calls „an invasion of foreigners” into Germany. AfD co-leader Alexander Gauland said, „We want a different [immigration] policy.”

And no wonder.

Only one-in-five of Merkel’s immigrants actually work.Of a million asylum seekers who have come to Germany…