With less than a month until the German election, Chancellor Angela Merkel was booed and jeered by protesters at an election rally in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, reported the German newspaper Die Welt on Saturday.
In a YouTube video posted by Lutz Bachmann, the co-founder of Germany’s PEGIDA movement, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, Chancellor Merkel’s entire speech was drowned out by hundreds of angry protesters telling her to “Get lost.”
Merkel’s policy of open borders for illegal migrants, and the resulting migrant crime wave and countless terror attacks, have created a lot of anger and resentment among the German voters in the run-up to the next month’s election. Earlier this week, Merkel’s rally in Bergisch-Gladbach, northwestern Germany, was also disrupted by protesters whistling and demanding she “Get lost.” As UK’s Daily Express noted last week, “[Merkel’s] election campaign team are well used to boos during their tour of Germany a month before the September 24 election.”
Die Welt covered Merkel’s recent election rally in Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt:
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s campaign appearance in [the city of] Quedlinburg was partially marred by laud protests. She had to face a barrage of catcalls and shouts of protest at the election event of Saxony-Anhalt State Unit of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Citizens held placards belonging to AfD [Alternative for Germany] and hand-made signs with slogans “Merkel must go” or “Thank You Merkel” with painted blood spatters. According to CDU estimates, nearly 3,000 people came at the market place of Harz-Stadt.
Merkel reacted to the protests, saying, “Some believe that one can overcome and solve the problems [affecting] the people in Germany by shouting. I don’t believe it, and assume that people [gathered] here at this place don’t think so either.”
While Merkel is leading in most of the polls and remains mainstream media’s favorite to win the upcoming parliamentary election, she still faces public ire for her ill-advised ‘Refugee Policy’ that opened the borders of Europe to millions of illegal immigrants, mainly men from Arab and Muslim countries.
In July, Merkel publicly rejected any future restriction on the number of undocumented migrants entering into the country if she were to win the election. “As far as an upper limit is concerned, my position is clear: I will not accept it,” Merkel said in an interview.
If Merkel were to win this election, as most of the pre-election polls suggest, German voters may well be sealing the fate of their country, if not that of the entire Christian Europe.
