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Germany’s far-right party AFD loses 3% of its support following massive protests against it

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Mark Camilleri
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Last week, Germany and Austria were swept with massive protests against the AFD and the rising far-right. In Germany alone 3 million people it is said to have been out in the streets in protests during the last week in various cities against Germany’s rising far-right party led by Alice Weidel with only a a small number of people attending the the counter-protests.

The massive show of numbers has been followed by a decline in the AFD’s support in the polls by at least 3%.

 

 

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4 responses to “Germany’s far-right party AFD loses 3% of its support following massive protests against it”

  1. Banquo avatar
    Banquo

    Two takeaways from the data are: first, that the AfD is still the second largest party in Germany; second, that the dip in support for the far-right AfD has been mirrored with an increase in support for the far-left BSW (which is a newish party). The BSW is also populist and deeply anti-immigrant. What is probably happening is that voters who like their populism not to come with fascist roots are switching from AfD to BSW. Note that the mainstream and biggest parties have not shown any improvement between the first and second graph you present.

    The CDU/CSU (centre-right and currently in opposition) has kept its support steady while the SPD’s support (centre-left and currently leading the government) has actually fallen a bit. The Greens are doing abysmally and the FDP’s (liberal, pro-business party) support is nothing to write home about. The Greens and FDP are junior partners in the current coalition government.

    So, fun as it might be to see the AfD take a hit, your conclusion is not really the right one, Mark. Fans of moderate and open politics have little to cheer about following these polls. The real story is that support has moved from the AfD to the BSW. Whether the protests had anything to do with that is debatable.

    However, regardless of the effectiveness of the protests, it is heartening to see so many people getting together for a good cause. In Malta, it is so rare that people are bothered to demonstrate for a political cause. Germans are showing us how it’s done. For us, instead of protests against the far-right, we have a national entity fining a Catholic radio station for refusing to give a platform to far-right voices. Bizarre.

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  2. Carmelo Micallef avatar
    Carmelo Micallef

    Mark, could you please search your data on the AfD support distribution on a geographical basis throughout Germany. On an anecdotal level I’m informed that AfD support in the old West Germany maybe much lower than in the old East Germany, with some East German cities showing the AfD to be in a leading party status maybe majority levels. If this is so then the next question is – why?

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