The party, which has been classified in some quarters as being securely on the extreme right, climbed to 26% approval in the Sunday poll conducted by the opinion research institute Forsa on behalf of RTL/ntv. In the Bundestag elections, the party had received 20.8% of the vote.
It is closely followed by the CDU/CSU, which is still below its result in the general election (28.5%) with a current 25%. The SPD achieved 15 percent (16.4 percent) in the Forsa survey. The Greens are virtually unchanged at 11% (11.6%), while the Left Party is at 9% (8.8%). The FDP and BSW both achieve four percent.
If federal elections were held on Sunday, the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats would no longer have a majority. They had negotiated a coalition agreement after the election, which now needs to be ratified. CDU leader Friedrich Merz is to be elected Chancellor in the Bundestag on May 6.
Is there a simple explanation for the increased AfD support? I’m in the US and have almost no clue about EU politics.
Fascists are rising up all over the world, it’s the same here. The fascists have already taken power in the US and it looks like they’ll do the same here in Germany too if nothing majorly changes. As soon as our economic system encounters a really bad recession, people notice that something’s going wrong and needs to change. Fascists take that opportunity to give people easy enemies to blame, saying that the “others” (nowadays that’s mostly muslims, immigrants and trans people) just need to be removed from society and everything will be fine again. They find explanations for why that’s the case and justify it by saying that they just want to “remigrate” them and also only the bad ones that don’t work and stuff like that. What they want to do and how they want to do it never changes tho, they’re still fascists no matter how many justifications and euphemisms they find for the cruel things they want to do. Unfortunately, their strategy still works perfectly, partly because they’re being supported by the rich. The rich know that the change people want will either result in fascists taking power, in which case they’d still be able to make loads of money, or leftists taking power, in which case their wealth would be taken away and given back to society. And just like with the companies they own, profit is always more important than human lifes. The fascists have convinced large parts of the population, the nationalised media (that was established after WW2 as a neutral source of information, so fascists can’t spread their propaganda, didn’t work out that well) and neoliberal politicians (so everyone who’s not in Die Linke or the AFD).
The current German government is Nazis pretending to be centrists so people think voting for open Nazis is the solution.
In US terms the current German government is the Democrats which refuse to compromise with leftists on anything. The AfD is Trump.
30% right or left wing nuts. The future looks bright. Not.
