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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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
Right, not far-right. Get it through your thick skulls.
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We germans are just not allowed to be patriotic.
Jajajaja. So now democracy is a threaht to democracy 😂😂😂
Poland.. better increase your military budget.
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.
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
AFD is most popular with gen z
Banning democratically chosen political parties to protect democracy…
Right 👌🏻
They’re only “far-right” because the center has bolted over to the left and only continues to do so
Ah yes, the only group of people that really rejected the AfD in large numbers are 70+
They should just show us what the AfD is saying. Otherwise this is just a clip about an opinion of some woman I've never seen before.
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…
So many AfD voters in the comments…absolutely disgusting.
That woman is spreading misinformation and hate about the AfD.
This was supposed to be a hit piece but ironically its had the opposite effect! Thanks Guardian, something useful for a change! 👍
Understand why people are hitting the AFD they just want borders on the country protect the German people and it's identity
If I had been german,I would have voted for AFD
Who actually takes the Guardian seriously anymore ???
“The far right is whoever we don’t like”
It’s the far left like the Guardian readers that you have to worry about.
The Guardian is obviously twitching 🤣
AGF IS DOING THE RIGHT.LOOK WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE UK .
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0:10 that’s what they say about trump, smh
Germany seems to be waking up, well done!
When you look on the Germany companies map you can clearly see that most of the companies (and opportunities) are based in the western part of Germany. After the reunion most of the eastern companies went bust and eastern part is treated by the western as inferior. So no wonder why eastern part feels angered.
The Guardian are Vacuum Brain's.
“Far right” is a lazy trope without any meaning whatsoever. I’m curious though. My whole life the Guardian has hated its own country. I’ve never understood why?
Leftists are destroying the world.
Well at least one europeans nations is thinking correctly. too bad the guardian can’t .
Ever notice how anyone who's not full on Trotskyist is "far right?"
Germany for the Germans.
Far right of the far left is pretty central.
Germany is a bit mysterious: they probably will make a similar deal.
Germany will get out of the EURO
As long as the AFD doesn't takeover
Unless……..
Aha, geltende deutsche Gesetze einhalten zu wollen ist also rechtsradikal. Ihr beim Guardian habt doch den Knall nicht gehört. Über 16k Messerankriffe im Jahre 23 sprechen schon allein für den Zuspruch für die AfD. Vergewaltigungen usw durch diese Goldstücke sind da noch nicht einmal mit erwähnt.
No one would be able to say how, when and why they threaten democracy. But they do that much is certain.
Being against mass migration isn't "far-right". It's a moderate position.
Beacause eatablished powers have failed the people left to right and have become corrupt and imoral to the core.
They called themselves ALTERNATIVE, ffs! I dont get what is there to explain.
If peoole have been ignores for decades with their life quality being continuously degraded, what exactly did you expect if not this?
“White people having opinions is bad so we should undermine democracy to save it” I wonder why professional journalism lost credibility? I guess we’ll never know.
The word far right has completely lost its meaning