Far-right AfD launches EU election campaign amid turmoil
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Germany's far-right AfD party launched its EU election campaign amidst controversy, including the absence of its lead candidate due to an espionage-related arrest and declining poll ratings.
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) launched its European Parliament election campaign in Donaueschingen, seeking to regain momentum in the face of recent controversies.
The event coincided with a rival Social Democratic Party (SPD) gathering led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Despite setbacks, including the absence of lead candidate Maximilian Krah due to his employee's arrest on espionage charges linked to China, AfD members appeared buoyant.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Germany's far-right AfD party launched its EU election campaign amidst controversy, including the absence of its lead candidate due to an espionage-related arrest and declining poll ratings.
The event coincided with a rival Social Democratic Party (SPD) gathering led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Despite setbacks, including the absence of lead candidate Maximilian Krah due to his employee's arrest on espionage charges linked to China, AfD members appeared buoyant.
Party leaders expressed gratitude to Krah for his contributions and accused opponents of employing undemocratic tactics to undermine AfD's efforts.
Despite these challenges, AfD's co-leader Tino Chrupalla remained resolute, emphasizing the party's core message against migration and criticizing the ruling coalition's policies.
The event notably targeted the Greens, particularly Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, drawing enthusiastic responses from attendees eager to rally behind AfD's nationalist platform.
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The problem is that even if the AfD gets a poor result in the European elections, they are set to win many local and state elections this year, making it practically impossible to form coalitions without them. Or rather it is impossible because the "liberal" FDP and "conservative" CDU would rather start the fourth Reich, than to cooperate with progressive political forces.
Also the political window was successfully shifted so far to the right, that the "social democrats" of Chancellor Scholz are now following openly racist and authoritarian policies that would have been associated with the AfD ten years ago. The Green party is doubling down on antimuslim racism because of sucking up Israel and the US and the Left party is in shambles, with a pro Putin and anti-immigration / racist block having separated recently.
German politics are completely fucked