Ben Harnwell

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11,999 appearances 63 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard yesterday

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Bannon`s War Room · WarRoom Battleground EP 1093: AFONSO GONÇALVES, Leader Of Reconquista; And VADIM DERKSEN, Senior Editor Of Junge Freiheit · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

more than just a s a symbolic importance. voice-verified

It it's a threshold. voice-verified

And what that means is and I think like for example here in Italy it might be three percent. voice-verified

The par you know, Parliament here in Italy just voted to increase voice-verified

The threshold from 3% to 5%. voice-verified

What that means is that if a political party doesn't get above the threshold, it doesn't get any electoral representation into parliament whatsoever. voice-verified

And those votes are divvied up and m amongst the other political parties. voice-verified

Um and it's it's a means by which the larger political parties voice-verified

Parties effectively control to some extent the game and stops the the emergence of new political mark parties entering into the system and developing a voice. voice-verified

Until, of course, you do what the AFD has done having persevered, is that it's gone beyond the five percent, which would have sort of voice-verified

Of locked it out for quite some time. voice-verified

It's gone beyond the 5%. voice-verified

It's now at 38%. voice-verified

And the irony of ironies is now that the CDU is now the victim of the of the very instrument that it used to isolate the smaller political parties in the past. voice-verified

Because now the CDU doesn't have any parliamentary representation in the in the local state. voice-verified

State Parliament of Mecklenburg. voice-verified

It c the Vadim, correct me if I'm wrong. voice-verified

This could not be as I say, there aren't any n now key state elections for the for the next year or so. voice-verified

That result last weekend could not be more important and terrifying for the German political class now. voice-verified

The CDU that the party of Angela Merkel, the party of Helmut Kohl, has pretty much imploded in the in the most recent state election. voice-verified

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