City folk once dismissed the AfD as a losing team of racists and crackpots. Older parties swore never to consider it as a coalition partner. But bells began to ring last month when it won control of a district administration in Thuringia
was launched ten years ago by a group of Eurosceptic intellectuals. The party soon shed gentler founders and their ideas, hardening around a strident nativism that harped on two issues, immigration and the alleged alienation of “ordinary” Germans from an increasingly “elitist” mainstream. It cashed in on anxiety over an influx of refugees, particularly from Syria in 2015-16, surging to 13% of the national vote in 2017 and sending 94s to the 709-seat Bundestag .
The talk shows suddenly discovered that the upstarts had displaced the Social Democrats, who lead the ruling coalition, as Germany’s second-most popular party. Nationally, theis now just six or so points behind the right-of-centre Christian Democrats’ 27%, and gaining. In former East Germany the roles are reversed: theThe reasons are multiple. One is that the coalition government presents a large target.
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