The German people are tired of their country being invaded. Since the main parties will do nothing, they are turning to the AfD in droves.
From The European Conservative
By Michael Curzon
The right-wing populist party keeps rising in popularity, and insists that “there’s even more to come.”
Germany's establishment parties appear totally incapable of slowing the AfD’s surge in popularity across the country and may soon have no choice but to scrap their ‘firewall,’ which forbids cooperation. In some areas, especially in the eastern parts of the country, this policy might not matter soon anyway, with the anti-immigration party looking close to entering government.
In the latest poll conducted by the major pollster INSA for Bild, the AfD scored 27% nationally—its highest score yet. Party official Michael Immel hailed that the party is “heading towards 30% in big strides.” AfD co-leader Alice Weidel added that “there’s even more to come.”
Meanwhile, the CDU/CSU-SPD coalition scored its worst result in six years, thanks in part to the SPD’s (and, separately, the Greens’) continued decline. The poll suggests that if an election were held today, the coalition government would win only 38.5% of the vote—far from a majority in the Bundestag.
With this movement clearly taking place in just one direction, some officials from Friedrich Merz’s CDU—especially those based in eastern Germany, where the AfD last week crossed the 40% mark in a regional poll for the first time—have begun to publicly question the feasibility of maintaining the firewall.
As we noted in our latest EuroCon Weekly email newsletter, establishment forces might have to change their stances since it seems there could be no stable coalition possible without the AfD’s involvement.
But the CDU reaffirmed its cordon sanitaire stance during a strategy meeting over the weekend.
It may well come to regret this decision.
Pictured: Alice Weidel, Co-Leader of the AfD. By Elekes Andor - Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=166893308
No comments:
Post a Comment
Comments are subject to deletion if they are not germane. I have no problem with a bit of colourful language, but blasphemy or depraved profanity will not be allowed. Attacks on the Catholic Faith will not be tolerated. Comments will be deleted that are republican (Yanks! Note the lower case 'r'!), attacks on the legitimacy of Pope Leo XIV as the Vicar of Christ, the legitimacy of the House of Windsor or of the claims of the Elder Line of the House of France, or attacks on the legitimacy of any of the currently ruling Houses of Europe.