Germany: Limited Political Support for Banning AfD
The CDU politician pushing the ban has delayed introducing the bill, claiming to be waiting for a court decision.
The CDU politician pushing the ban has delayed introducing the bill, claiming to be waiting for a court decision.
Thuringia’s FDP president’s statements come after CDU chief Friedrich Merz and several leading Thuringian CDU politicians called for cooperation with the AfD at the local and state levels, respectively.
As support for the AfD surges and the malignant portrayal of the party’s voters by the globalist press has proven to be grossly dishonest, voices calling for the firewall to be torn down have become louder and greater in number.
Merz’s apparent dismantling of his party’s firewall against the AfD at the local level comes just days after an opinion poll revealed that support for the anti-globalist party, once again, reached a new all-time high, at 22% of the national vote—just four percentage points behind the CDU.
CDU Friedrich Merz conducted some political spring cleaning this week as he removed a former Merkel loyalist from the party’s ruling committee in favour of a conservative alternative as the German conservatives ponder the rise of the AfD.
The federal interior ministry—generally responsible for determining whose asylum claims are legitimate—has outsourced this task to the approximately 100 NGOs involved in the program.
Emmanuel Macron’s claim that Europe should take a balanced position between Beijing and Washington is seen as nonsense and dangerous by the German political class.
The CDU hopes to hold Scholz’s feet to the fire for his ties to a German bank implicated in extensive tax fraud committed while he was mayor of Hamburg.
The raid relates to a corruption case against top EPP official Mario Voigt, with allegations that the CDU politician awarded a contract to design an EPP campaign app on the basis of bribery.
Ironically, the MEP had been involved in parliamentary work to combat violence against women only a month ago.