
Most Germans Have Had Enough of the Firewall Against AfD
While establishment parties continue to ostracize the party, only a third of the country supports the cordon sanitaire, with half wanting AfD to be treated as any other democratic party.

While establishment parties continue to ostracize the party, only a third of the country supports the cordon sanitaire, with half wanting AfD to be treated as any other democratic party.
Almost half of the respondents also said there should be no cordon sanitaire imposed on the party.
The CDU may be revising its tactics as giving in to leftist demands resulted in a significant drop of the party’s popularity.

Amid growing internal dissent, the CDU faces mounting pressure to revise its strategy and reconnect with its disillusioned base.

For Tusk’s KO, upholding the cordon sanitaire is more important than trying to uphold an image of a ‘center-right’ party.

Erecting a firewall against a right-wing populist party is practiced not only in Germany but across Western Europe by the usual centre-right establishment suspects.

The S&D is using backroom tactics to block even symbolic concessions that would hardly save Europe’s struggling economies.

The plan to preserve the firewall involves “driving a wedge” between EPP and conservatives and making sure the center-right knows “there will be consequences to looking both ways.”

A bogus yet hectic ‘competitiveness’ debate in the EP aimed to further the exclusion of conservatives and ensure that the EPP’s loyalty remains with the Left and not with its voters.

The establishment’s exclusion of leading right-wing forces will backfire, eroding its legitimacy and hastening its collapse, Patriot MEPs warned.