2023-08-06 19:49:30
AfD is the German extreme right party. He is a europhobe, a white supremacist, a xenophobic, a misogynist, and a homophobe.
At the party convention held in the city of Magdeburg, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), representing the extreme right in the country, has declared the European Union a “failed project” in its current form. According to German news reports, the DPA agency has detailed the key points of the AfD’s electoral program for the European Parliament elections to be held next June.
The AfD maintains that the EU has failed in all crucial areas, including its migration and climate policy.as well as the rejection of the adoption of the euro as currency. However, it should be noted that the party has not demanded Germany’s exit from the EU; instead, it proposes a refounding of the European Union under the concept of a “federation of European nations”, as reported by dpa.
According to the electoral program adopted in Magdeburg, the new European federation suggested by the AfD would have as its main tasks the protection of the external borders to control the migration, strategic autonomy in security policy and the preservation of “different identities” in Europe.
AfD support and perspectives: a more moderate stance?
Recent polls indicate that support for the AfD oscillates between 19% and 22%, ranking behind only the main conservative opposition bloc. The recent victory of AfD candidates in elections in eastern Germany, where they now run a county administration and hold the mayoralty in a city of 56,000, has strengthened their position.
The program presents a more moderate stance towards the European Union compared to the draft presented in June, in which the AfD sought the “orderly dissolution of the EU”. Several party members had previously expressed their desire for Germany to leave the EU completely, in what was dubbed a “Dexit.” However, the new program stresses support for a “Europe of homelands, a European community of sovereign and democratic states.”
AfD co-leader Alice Weidel claimed that this new compromise was reached during negotiations on Sunday night. The convention also finalized the AfD’s 35-candidate list for next year’s European Parliament elections, where Maximilian Krah was selected as the party’s top candidate with 65.7% of the vote. Krah has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019.
The German extreme right in the future in the European Parliament
With the European Parliament elections on the horizon, the AfD is showing an increase in its popular support, although its critical stance towards the EU has taken a softer tone. The upcoming elections will be a crucial moment to determine the future of the European Union and the direction that Germany will take in the continental political context.
The AfD will seek to consolidate its presence and potentially influence European decision-making, while other parties will try to counter its advance and defend the EU project in its current form. Europe’s political future stands at a crossroads, and only time will tell how this ever-changing political landscape will play out.
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