But sure, Europe totally respects and adores the concept of Our Democracy™ and is nothing like that no-good, vile, authoritarian Putin who uh, totally rigs elections and ignores/bulldozes results he doesn't want. OK.
Poor Ramelows dog was crying my guy, its obvious that they had to overturn it then! Also the Afd voted for one of the FDP(basically liberals in name only) who are at least not the far left die Linke. It wasn't even someone from the AfD and they flipped the fuck out. To this day that's THE example I bring when someone tells me elections work.
Yep this incident is great to shut down any arguments of the German government being much better than other supposedly "evil: ones. If they still agree with this incident or try to make it sound less important you know you're talking to a political zealot.
Oh hey, this was in Thuringia, AKA the German state where their establishment (including then-still-unretired Angela Merkel) overturned the results of an election a few years ago after it put the 'far-right' AfD in a position to form a governing coalition and forced Bodo Ramelow - a member of the actually far-left Die Linke party, whose name literally means 'The Left', and who fired the guy featured in the article - into the office of Minister-President instead.
But sure, Europe totally respects and adores the concept of Our Democracy™ and is nothing like that no-good, vile, authoritarian Putin who uh, totally rigs elections and ignores/bulldozes results he doesn't want. OK.
Poor Ramelows dog was crying my guy, its obvious that they had to overturn it then! Also the Afd voted for one of the FDP(basically liberals in name only) who are at least not the far left die Linke. It wasn't even someone from the AfD and they flipped the fuck out. To this day that's THE example I bring when someone tells me elections work.
Yep this incident is great to shut down any arguments of the German government being much better than other supposedly "evil: ones. If they still agree with this incident or try to make it sound less important you know you're talking to a political zealot.