{"id":32448,"date":"2026-03-23T04:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=32448"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:26:04","slug":"23-maerz-2026-kurznachrichten-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/23-maerz-2026-kurznachrichten-2\/","title":{"rendered":"March 23, 2026 \u2013 Short News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rhineland Palatinate has voted \u2013 and the SPD still does not know why!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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You look at these numbers and think: again. 31 percent CDU. 25.9 SPD. 19.5 AfD. FDP out, Free Voters out, the Left just out with 4.4 percent. Gordon Schnieder wins his direct mandate in the Vulkaneifel with 52.6 percent. Alexander Schweitzer gets 41.4 percent in the Southern Wine Route \u2013 and still loses. He says himself he will not be part of a new cabinet. Somewhere in Tokyo, Boris Pistorius says there is no need now for a personnel debate. He says it from Tokyo. That also says something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schweitzer explains that the SPD defeat in Baden W\u00fcrttemberg two weeks ago \u2013 5.5 percent, the worst result ever in a state election \u2013 was put into his backpack. Maybe. He fought against the wind, against the trend. That is probably true. It could be. It sounds like a man who knows he may be right and still goes home. The Seeheimer Kreis says the SPD is losing itself in niche issues, elections are won in the center. They have been saying that for years. The center is somewhere else now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AfD gains 11.2 points. Loud, as always. That seems to count. In the Kaiserslautern district it wins the most second votes \u2013 ahead of SPD and CDU. Jan Bollinger narrowly misses his direct mandate in Neuwied, still celebrates, Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla smile. In Mainz, 70 people protest. Few, for how much is at stake. The police call the evening peaceful. Who is supposed to disrupt it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie Agnes Strack Zimmermann says the FDP has not even started moving since the federal election. She has been part of this party for decades. The sentence lands, but it comes too late. She is sitting there. What shows itself again this evening does not seem to trouble the established parties enough. They use social media, but sparingly, stiffly \u2013 out of arrogance, out of naivety, out of reasons they may know internally but do not name. By 2026 it has long been clear what has also been true in agency journalism for years: the headline decides. Not the quality of the story behind it. Not our world. Strategies against right wing parties need to be reconsidered. They are out of place, yet results and reason are needed to break this trend. Whoever is not where people look every day loses the night before the polls even close. Loud beats right. Simple beats true. And the path of loud continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spain calls for opening Hormuz \u2013 and does not say the obvious \u2013 Iranians put stickers with Pedro S\u00e1nchez on rockets<\/h3>\n\n\n\n