This extreme right alternative for Germany (AfD), the only party in this spectrum Shooting opened in the German Parliament second position intending to votetied with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party. The Conservative opposition holds the top spot smoothly, while Scholz’s allies the Greens and the Liberal Party (FDP) continue their free fall in the polls.
A 18% of the vote The AfD would have won if general elections were held now, according to a poll by ARD, the first national public channel considered one of the most reliable in the country. This is also the ratio attributed to the Chancellor’s Social Democrats, eleven points below the conservative bloc formed by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU). This is the first opposition parliamentary group led by right-wing Friedrich Merz, a historical rival among the conservative family of the centrist line now represented by Angela Merkel.
The AfD’s rise in polls is theoretically significant because no general election on the horizon. However, bad moments abound for the Scholz trio, whose Green partners have experienced a dramatic decline in citizen appreciation. Its two most prominent ministers, Robert Habeck, Minister for the Economy and Climate Protection, and Annalena Baerbock, the Secretary of State, have traditionally shifted the top position to the liking of voters, including those who voted for other parties. In recent months, they have seen their administration vigorously questioned in the Habeck case. unpopular measures Aside from accusations of favoritism in his ministry, he said he wanted to push for gas or diesel heating to be replaced with renewable equivalents.
AfD excluded from government deals
This Intention to vote attributed to the Greens now stands at 15%. The Liberals of the FDP are placed at 7% while the Left can be demoted to a non-parliamentary position as they are at 4% and thus below the minimum 5% which guarantees access to seats.
Unlike what is happening in other European countries, from Austria to Scandinavia or the Netherlands, the far-right AfD is strictly excluded as a government partner by the rest of the German parliamentary spectrum. Also for the conservative opposition, any collaboration with this party is a red line, which was endorsed at successive CDU congresses under Merkel.
However, some of the party’s regional groupings point to the need for “dialogue”. This is mainly happening in the east of the country, a former communist region where the AfD has reached prime power in some of its strongholds. The CDU has been challenged lately. endorse or support coalitions at the regional level In the past it was considered unnatural in exchange for keeping the far right out.
The AfD entered the German Parliament in 2017, making it the fan’s first chaired formation since the 1950s. Just four years ago, the euro was born as a skeptical and anti-bailout force for southern European countries, but it turned that rhetoric. towards xenophobia, with the 2015 refugee crisis that brought one million asylum seekers to Germany that year. In recent years, she has reconciled the anti-immigration vote with her support for various protest movements, including anti-vaccine ones in times of covid. Like other formations of the European far-right family, it is a pro partyVladimir Putinwith strong ties to Kremlin.