“As long as I lead my party, nothing will happen. partnership “With this training,” he said. Christian Democratic Union (CDU), rightist Frederick Merz, German public television ARD, with regard to the growing and far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). He added that it is a “xenophobic and anti-Semitic” party that has become increasingly radicalized and unable to form an alliance.
Merz’s backlash came when he placed the AfD second in voting intentions in a poll conducted for the first time by the same television channel, “serious,” only to be outdone by Merz’s conservatives and tied with him. Social Democratic Party (SPD) Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Merz’s answer is more than relevant. On the one hand, it maintains the red line drawn during the time of Angela Merkel, under whose leadership her party made successive decisions against any and all cooperation with the AfD at any level. On the other hand, because sanitary cord Ahead of the far right, a significant part of Central and Northern Europe, from Austria or the Netherlands to Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, either in their current government or in previous coalitions, where ultras are common or form “foreign ally”. The CDU’s regional delegations in East Germany, where the AfD is the leading power, are clamoring to “build bridges” with this formation.
regain power
Merz’s toughness was nothing to be taken lightly, as Merkel, who led the party for 18 years, stepped down as chancellor in 2021. Merz took over the reins of Merkel’s longtime rival, the CDU. If the current former chancellor represents the party’s most centrist line, then Merz is the banner of the party’s most right-wing faction. Merkel detached from party structures While Merz tries to regain power for the conservative group of the CDU and its sister Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), he does not even interfere with their congresses.
There is no guarantee that it will succeed without the support of the AfD. The CDU/CSU occupies 29% in the public television poll, while the AfD is estimated at 18%, the same percentage as Scholz’s SPD. To two of the Chancellor’s friends, Greens and Liberal Party (FDP)estimated at 15% and 7%, respectively.
AfD, a party that was born as a Eurosceptic ten years ago but later turned into xenophobic 2015 migration crisisbrings together all kinds of protest votes. Refusal of refugees and immigrants remains strong. 65% of their voters see this as the main reason they voted for them, while 47% point against environmental measures and climate change promoted by the trio and especially the Greens.
“The rise of the AfD stems from dissatisfaction with the chaotic administration of Scholz’s tripartite administration,” Merz said. Scholz assured that the AfD is the “party of the grudges” and affirmed that his government must take the necessary measures, which may not be popular but to keep Germany economically and energetically up to date.