It is a testimony of the responsibility and maturity of the German people that this miscellaneous alliance of the disaffected only attracted 12% of the vote. If the election is clearly not a victory for political and economic radicalism, it would be equally misleading to interpret it as the triumph of the free market.  Throughout the campaign, there was an eerie degree of consensus about the desirability of central features of a distinctly European and more specifically German system of values.
إنه حزب بلا برنامج متماسك، بل إنه يستند إلى خلاصة الشعارات الشعبية والقومية. وإنه لمما يشهد للشعب الألماني بالنضج وتحمل المسؤولية أن ذلك التحالف المتنوع من الساخطين لم يجتذب سوى 12% من الأصوات.