Founder of Germany's 'Repatriate Our Gold' campaign has good chance for parliament

Peter Boehringer, founder of Germany's "Repatriate Our Gold" campaign and a longtime GATA supporter, reports that the new Alternative for Germany party has placed him second on its list of Bavarian candidates for Germany's parliament, the Bundestag. Since polls show AfD gaining about 10 percent support of voters in the country's coming parliamentary election and since a party's threshold for parliamentary membership is 5 percent, Boehringer would seem to have a good chance of election.

For many years Boehringer has campaigned for transparency in the gold market generally and from the Bundesbank particularly, and he is largely responsible for inducing the Bundesbank to recall much of Germany's gold reserve from New York, London, and Paris. Boehringer supports free markets and Germany's withdrawal from the European Union. He opposes the uncontrolled immigration that is destroying Germany and Europe.

If Boehringer is elected, the Bundesbank may face many challenging questions it is now able to avoid because members of the Bundestag are so timid in the face of the financial elite.