cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/25151353
BERLIN, April 9 - Germany’s far-right AfD party topped a major poll for the first time on Wednesday in a sign of growing dissatisfaction with mainstream parties as chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz seeks to seal a coalition government deal.
Support for Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc, which won the February 23 election, fell by five percentage points to 24% while the Alternative for Germany (AfD) gained three points to land on 25%, according to the Ipsos institute’s poll.
The AfD came second in the election, the best performance by a far-right party since World War Two.
Its just after the election. Poles dont mean anything right now
Poles dont mean anything right now
That’s racist!
Well played.
Take my upvote
The AfD came second in the election, the best performance by a far-right party since World War Two.
I’m sure its fine.
As an American, you are giving me flashbacks.
On the other hand, Linke is at 11.
Bloody hell. Should Poland start fortifying western border as well?
Although i understand it is very worrying, i want to emphasize that a poll Like this doesnt make sense right at this Moment. The last government split up beginning of November. The New one just finished their coalition plans, now their party members have to agree to the plan and from may on we will have a government again. So for six month wie had no real government - in these times. Of course people feel super insecure. Since building a coalotion is always about compromisses the conservative Party gets a lot of hate for making huge compromisses and not follow their agenda. If they wouldn’t they wouldn’t find a partner. But people of course say " its not what they promised to do". So conservative people are upset and might just say they vote afd to shock their party. Stupid yes, but would they really do it? polls in this Situation will always meet people that are less confident and more insecure and people in this state tend more to defiance and thus to extremes, especially when the world goes absolutely crazy and we have no government to react. Its not very surprising. Let’s wait a few month into the new government doing things and then see the polls. I am not optimistic that afd will go down a lot. But at the moment so shortly after the elections you cannot make good polls.
Since building a coalotion is always about compromisses the conservative Party gets a lot of hate for making huge compromisses and not follow their agenda.
That’s a narrative straight out of the right wing of the right wing of the CDU. If you actually cross-check the stances of CDU voters and people like Merz you’d quickly find that voters don’t really have an issue with rape in marriage being a thing you can go to prison for. And that people like Günther draw in far more votes than people like Merz. And more than, for that matter, Söder.
I can only hope that the new coalition tries to improve people’s lives and thus removes reasons for the AfD to exist. Otherwise the next elections are going to be a disaster.
Not holding my breath.
Yeah, conservatives don’t understand how to move forwards and just like maintaining a status quo. Unfortunately, they have been in power so long that they control enough of the media outlets to influence the population to think that being progressive is a bad thing for the people. And they fuck the education system in such a way that people are easy to manipulate. What they didn’t factor in, just like encryption backdoors, is that other entities might be successful at manipulating people.
They did this in so many countries in Europe (and probably abroad), that the US started flexing their conservative muscles together with Russia and this is what we get.
That’s never gonna happen, especially in Germany where the historically largest parties (both socdems and conservatives) can be essentially boiled down to “nothing ever happens”. Hell, I even doubt that Die Linke would be able to do much if they were somehow magically the majority in the government.
They are slashing social welfare, and the poorest are generally quite eager to vote for the nazis for some reason (certainly not their policies, they hate poor people just as much as the current government parties).
