SPD loses state election

The Social Democratic Party of Germany lost yesterday’s state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate, a state it held for 35 years. The party lost 9.8 percentage points compared to the last elections five years ago, finishing with only 25.9 percent of the vote, 5 percent behind the Christian Democratic Union and just 6 percent ahead of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland, which more than doubled its vote share. The Social Democrats also lost the mayoralty of the Bavarian capital, Munich, having held it almost continuously for 78 years, to the Green Party’s Dominik Krause, the city’s first openly homosexual mayor. The Social Democrats’ losses put pressure on the national government, which is led by the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats. This is a harbinger of the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, which says Germany will return to autocratic rule.