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Why Germany’s AfD is in Decline
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For some time now, the far-right AfD party seemed to be on course to dominate the next German election. But a series of events, including large protests across Germany, are starting to see AfD’s polling numbers fall. In this video, we take a look at what’s going on with AfD, and whether the party has now passed its peak.
Why the Right is on the Rise in Germany: https://youtu.be/U8N-pI4Af2I
Why has the Right-Wing AfD become so Popular in Germany?:
https://youtu.be/3a1jF8DIs6o
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1 – https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/
1 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_German_federal_election
2 – https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/neue-rechte/2024/01/10/geheimplan-remigration-vertreibung-afd-rechtsextreme-november-treffen/
3 – https://apnews.com/article/germany-far-right-democracy-protests-afd-nazis-2dce0ea7ed40fccd3f0ec1c46edcfd42
4 – https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/icon-german-left-vows-save-democracy-launches-new-party-2024-01-08/
5 – https://www.dw.com/en/germany-former-spy-boss-founds-new-right-wing-party/a-68288896
6 – https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/wagenknecht-partei-erhaelt-nur-wenig-zulauf-von-afd-waehlern-li.2193908
7 – https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/politbarometer-afd-bsw-schuldenbremse-rechtsextremismus-ukraine-100.html
8 – https://dawum.de/Brandenburg/
8 – https://dawum.de/Thueringen/
8 – https://dawum.de/Sachsen/
8 – https://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/landtage/brandenburg.htm
8 – https://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/landtage/thueringen.htm
8 – https://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/landtage/sachsen.htm
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@timkey_4542
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
One should also not forget that the AFD has a new sister party: Bündnis Sarah Wagenknecht. A splinter group from the Left but it has accepted more or less every AFD position meaning its basically just a clone. It stole a lot of votes from AFD and the Left.
@toyotaprius79
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
Germany is at it again
And not one mention of Israel and Gaza
@wolfgangrenner4152
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
A major Problem with AFD is, that it is Trojanic Horse of Putins imperial projects. There are a lot of overlapp between CDU and AFD. Both want to use nuclear energy, allow all concepts of car engines including combustion and hybrid concepts and want to stop deindustrialization of Germany. But a big problem is that AFD is part of the "Dismantle the EU cooperative" with FPÖ, Le Pen, Salvini, Wilders, Orban, Wagenknecht, WerteUnion etc. etc., which are all for dismantleing NATO, EU and US-European partnership. All work on making european states to new Sowjet Provinces by installing Putin controlled puppet regimes. Russia does not only attempt so in Ukraine. No, Russia spreads this approach over entire EU space. Does UK have a russian puppet party ? I don't know about it. Meloni is definitive pro EU and pro NATO and Meloni supports Ukraine in their desire to become a western bound state. But AFD and all other populist rightist want to reinstall Hitler-Stalin Pact politics to suppress East Europe states from become soveraign states. And this right wing populists use anti migration sentiment to collect voters for an Anti-EU project in order of Putins Russia. Everyone educated knows this concept. And this makes EU / Western bound parties so difficult to cooperate with right wing parties. Nevertheless there are huge common interests from Pro-EU conservatists and Pro-Russia rightist parties like the AFD.
@shaycormac3219
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
It's really sad, AFD is the only party that can save Germany from turning into small africa, syria
@eurotop40
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
Alice Weidel, a lesbian living with her black wife in Switzerland, heads a nazi party against LGBT. Very nice people indeed (and Putin allies)!
@rjohnm666
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
BSW is the tankie party, embarrassing to see such a party arise in Germany once again
@KPPO200
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
CDU with join with AFD in the next election. They cant stand on the far left.
@philsophkenny
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
😮
@smashwombel
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
This second rise of the AfD is interesting, because at this point they have a pretty solid reputation as a far right party, so the implication is that those switching know what they are voting for. Which makes it unlikely that they will return to one of the mainstream parties at some point in the future.
@Mrawelon82
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
25% commersial 🙁
@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
HAS the AfD peaked?
AN entity is singular. If you are referring to "the people of the AfD", or "the AfD leaders", then that would be plural.
@91PKPower
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
I think the „Bündndis Sarah Wagenknecht“ (BSD) did exactly what it set out to do, which is polarize and sway some of the voters easily influenced by fearmongering. I think that her party gaining 4%, while the AfD lost 4% in polling is no coincidence. People acting like the AfD is going down because of this polling dip are just wrong. So are people who think the AfD will rebound immediately and likely win the next election.
@danielevans5286
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
Maybe planning the mass deportation of German citizens based off little more than not being ‘German’ enough reminded some people of something…
@andrewdunbar828
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
Saxony and Talingula?
@mathewho9796
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
Amazes me that Europeans can mass mobilise the population to protest for even things like AFD but my country of Australia doesn't even mass protest on Austerity
@kristizh4443
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
These parties feed off of people's emotions with their rhetoric, swaying the opinions of the less informed. Plato wrote extensively about this, sadly the cycle keeps repeating…
@Letsthinkaboutit-mb7nn
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
All political parties have a peak of support they can reasonably get, unless something really weird happens. I.e the far right I think is about 20-30% of the electorate in most countries (again with a bit of variation)
I think it´s good that Wagenknecht has managed to take some of their voters away.
@pgebhard7072
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
BSW -> Bullshit Wagenknecht 😀
@pgebhard7072
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
No wonder Wagenknecht opposes sanctions against Russia. Her husband is doing business within Russia.
@NoidoDev
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
The "scandal" was based on lies by some Soros funded organization. It might temporarily move away some shaky hands from the party, though this happened often before and these people might come back.
And there's certainly a little bit more competition, but not only for AfD.
@bedri1
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
They are doing the same thing to AFD as they do to Trump, constant scrutiny and berating of the citizens. Instead of attacking the people want to see Change, they could start fixing real issues in the country!
@cjryan88
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
why are you lying
@lemmyboy4107
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
2:00 to clarify, the greens are NOT down compared to last elections. They are constant with their votes. This is important because its the only party of the 3 that seems to satisfy its voters.
@silenthawkstudios9924
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
3:20 …because of course an Austrian is getting involved in German far right politics 🤦♂
Anonymous
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
These losses should be attributed to the appearence of new political Parties and not the protests. These protestors are overwhelmingly leftists who dissliked the AfD and anything right of the SPD to begin with, and not the "silent majority" they are often portayed as. Germany is very split these days. Theres millions of increasingly right wing people and the same for the left.
Anonymous
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
5:42 These polls are rarely accurate to the entire population and strongly depend on region. If you ask in western Berlin, 80% will disslike the AfD. If you ask in Thuringia for an example, theyd be the most supported party. Also people get labelled racist very quickly if they dont agree with the protests.
@cm-qt9ir
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
AFD is not on a decline. They declined from January to February but for the last month their support has stabilized and actually most recent polls show they went up again. If you want to talk about a parties who on the decline, Greens and SPD are on the decline as both are polling the lowest in over 3 years and have been on the decline for last few years.
@janklobener435
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
FCK
AfD
@user-mg4mp2cw8x
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
I, Hunt, what I think.
In Europe and in the West as a whole, today there is no such sociological criterion as the sociology of European consciousness. Since the sociology of consciousness of European ethnic groups of the human race, today in the West, is completely crushed by the social stench of Jewish consciousness.
I do not presume to assert that Europe, today again, has plunged into the medieval social stench of the Jewish consciousness, but the fact that Europe already reeks of social shit is obvious, yes, so far, Europe reeks, not of the social stench of the Jewish consciousness: Putin, Macron, Hitler, Pidorlein, Zelensky, Goebbels…
Even, the data from the Ministry of Health of England, that today 32% of His Majesty's subjects affected by scabies mite (itch), say a lot. If Europeans, like Jews, continue not to wash for forty days, then it will come to typhus in Europe, and possibly to the plague.
@ShimobeSama
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
The breakoff party from The Left might be good at siphoning off voters from the SPD and Greens (voters who like the economically left policies rather than actual environmental crap) just as much as the AfD; who knows. The new party trying to sit between the CDU and AfD seems totally pointless though. i don't get it unless they're trying to sabotage both the CDU and the AfD. Just pick one or the other, already.
@ShimobeSama
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
0:16 I can basically jxrk off to completion to just this map.
@Kosovar_Chicken
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
Any decline in AFD is likely from other parties waking up to the fact mass migration was a mistake.
@meilinchan7314
March 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm
As a Malaysian it pleases me to see the AfD crumble…..Malaysia's Perikatan Nasional coalition is troublingly close to the AfD, and in recently years, its dominant component, the Islamist Party, had started embracing policies toward minorities not different to that espoused by the AfD and its Austrian friends.