The internet is a strange place that can bring together people who never meet in real life™. Case in point: Iberian journalists who want to talk about the election and (you guessed that right) the AfD. This time around, it was Marta Rey from Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, who wrote not one, not two, no: three articles at the day of and after the election, all quite good (thank you, Google Translate).
A portrait of Friedrich Merz:
A review of the campaign and the result:
The morning after the night before:
A few days earlier, I had spoken with Adrián Romero (also at RTVE) about Scholz, Merz, Ukraine, and the AfD’s and BSW’s love for Russia. Here is his article:
And because that is not nearly enough Spanish for three days, I also talked to Icíar Gutierrez, who wrote a long story for El Diario about her encounters in AfD land. Somewhat surprisingly, a lot of what Paulina Fröhlich (of Das Progressive Zentrum fame) and I told her made it into the final piece, which is again, quite good in my book.
