Germany’s Far-Right Homocon-Led Party To Advance

June 7, 2023 Extremists, Republicans

Reuters reports:

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is riding high in the polls to the alarm of mainstream parties and is on track to win three state votes in the east of the country with calls to stop migration and curb what it sees as a costly green agenda. AfD is polling 17-19% nationwide, around a record high for the party that now vies with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats for second place in some surveys, up from fifth in the 2021 election when it secured 10.3% of the vote.

Far-right parties have gained ground across Europe. In France, the far-right has become a stronger rival at the ballot box, while in Italy and Sweden, they are now are in government. But the rise of the AfD, which lambasts the German government for high immigration levels, surging inflation and a costly green transition, touches a particularly sensitive nerve in Germany because of the country’s Nazi past.

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AfD leader Alice Weidel [photo], is in a civil union with a woman with whom she shares two children, but she opposes same-sex marriage and other LGBTQ rights.



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