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Why the far-right AfD has been so successful in Germany

  • September 9, 2024



Why the far-right AfD has been so successful in Germany

The far-right, anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is riding a populist wave across Europe’s largest economy.
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According to polls conducted this month, the AfD has become the strongest party in Thuringia, a former state of the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR), for the first time since the Nazi era. In Saxony, another former GDR state, the party finished a very close second behind the CDU.

The Guardian’s Berlin correspondent, Deborah Cole, explains how the AfD has risen from its eurosceptic origins to a party that is ‘managing to set the agenda’ in German politics

Success of far-right AfD shows east and west Germany are drifting further apart ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/success-far-right-afd-shows-east-west-germany-drifting-further-apart

Everyone is terrified of a far-right return in Germany. Here’s why it won’t happen https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/07/everyone-is-terrified-of-a-far-right-return-in-germany-heres-why-it-wont-happen

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37 comments

  4. What? They are not far right… define far right plz? There are leftist parties that are more far out on the left then these are out to the right…? So why do you never talk about those far leftist partys that are actual extremist? This seams to be a problem in most of the west not treating the right and the left the same… weird right?
    And Im a Swede, centric and even if I was right wing being right in sweden would be the equivalent of beina democrate in the US. Btw, it can be debated if Nazies was far left or far right btw… you could make the claim that the nazies from wwII was far left btw (socialists). So…

  10. Should you not be saying extreme right or ultra mega far right?? The left is now loosing on all fronts and it’s time you minted some new terms to make us hate you more

  11. If beint anti immigration is far right, then 99% of countries on earth are far right. The same countries that send rapists and murderers to europe send back into the desert other migrants.

  25. I guess those people who support AfD are not the ones who value relationship with people, they don't really spend time getting along with family, friends.Because if they do, they have no need to fear immigrants, the phenomenon what is happening in Deutschland is exactly the proof of lack of connections within people in German

  32. The 2015 Congress of Conservative Parties of the World in Russia allowed Russian special services to organize, finance and coordinate all radical, destructive movements. Have you already sold your homeland for Gazprom or Alrosa shares?

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