Election Night Statement

German Election Result Reflects Effect of NATO Narrative ‘Bubble’

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

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Feb. 24—The following statement was issued election night, Feb. 23, after close of voting in the German Bundestag elections, by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Chair of the National Board of the BüSo (Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität, Civil Rights Movement Solidarity Party).

The result of the Feb. 23, 2025 Federal election fully reflects the fact that this election campaign was conducted in an unprecedented bubble, which was facilitated by most parties and the mainstream media in line with the NATO narrative. The whole world is now laughing at the complete inability of the German pro-Atlantic establishment to even come close to defending German interests. Both the Merkel government and the so-called street-light government have criminally allowed Germany to be drawn into a NATO war against Russia that has largely ruined the German economy.

While Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke out strictly against a quick admission of Ukraine at the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008, her double-tongued attitude toward the Minsk II process contributed to the war in Ukraine and to the lasting destruction of trust between Russia and Germany.

Contrary to his earlier statements about the danger of world war, Chancellor Scholz has deliberately submitted to the NATO narrative by continuing to supply more and more weapons to Ukraine, without there being any public debate about the consequences for Germany. The coalition has done nothing to clarify the largest terrorist attack, on the Nord Stream pipelines on Sept. 26, 2022, pipelines which are important for Germany’s infrastructure. The German economy is in free fall. None of this was an issue in the election campaign.

If Friedrich Merz succeeds in forming a government relatively quickly, he will have to decide whether to take a positive approach to the new diplomatic process between U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and Russian President Vladimir Putin, or whether to follow the militarism of the British government and the Brussels bureaucracy, which is endangering Germany.

In either case, the bubble in which this election campaign has taken place will soon burst, because in the tectonic changes currently taking place in the world, the half-life of bubbles is extremely short. If Merz does not take this into account, no coalition of any kind will last long.

The way out for Germany lies in cooperation with the BRICS countries, and thus with the Global Majority. It is up to Merz to make a real political change, but it may be that industry will have to force him to do so.

German citizens should be prepared to become much more active if Germany’s future is to be secured.