AfD Rise in Germany

Yes, especially AfD in Germany but in other countries too:https://www.politico.eu/article/robert-lambrou-alternative-f...

A new parliament will be elected in Germany on 26 September. Current polls do not see a majority for the ruling coalition of CDU/CSU (Conservatives) and SPD (Labour). It is expected that either the FDP (Liberals) or the Grünen (Greens) or both will be part of the next government. Both the FDP (the party of the MP who wrote the letter) and the Grünen have been very supportive of data protection and privacy in opposition. We will see if they stick to it in government.

Wait for the next election in Germany. AfD has just climbed to the 2nd place with 20% of support and is still growing. Believe or not, one day you will miss someone like Orban.

I am loving this wake-up call to the established parties of Germany, whose elected representatives are bailing out countries and banks left and right against the will of their electorate. The only parties which seem to represent the will of the voters (on the surface) in this regard are the left and the extreme right. But for historical reasons, many Germans will never vote for them. So the pirate party fills a real void (mainly for youths): as a protest party for disgruntled voters, and as a pa

Similar things are happening in germany. Most people I talk to feel like the 2 major parties have lost their grit, their profile, and they have become mostly the same. However, in germany, this just gives new parties chances to rise. I think that's a sign of a healthy democray - if the old parties stop representing the people, voters will replace them.

Exactly what people feared and what was promised that it wouldn't ever happen. In Germany, the current right-leaning party is currently satiated with extreme voices. But several years ago that was still different. They had some economist voices that correctly predicted the current dilemma. Given, those already left the party because of the surfacing extremism. But for that the other political parties are even more to blame in my opinion. Overall the current situation of the EU is barely acc

I think the main issues are polarization and the two party political landscape for you guys across the pond. Don't forget that the grass often seems greener on the other side, we here in germany also have a lot of polarization going on esp. in recent times. Also these coalition agreements are not reliable, politicians talk a lot if the day is long, we'll have to wait and see what actually comes of it.

Golden Dawn in Greece and AFD in Germany (although it should be noted that AFD is not quite the same. GD would be equal to NPD or similar). Both have about 10% of the vote more or less to give you an idea of the size.This is one of the most widely discussed political topics here and has been since at least 2013. I don‘t see how „nobody wants to admit it“.The Green party was recently at 30% and is now at 18%. The social democrats + liberal + green party are currently at 53% - all decidedly

It's the same here too... before the recent state-level elections here in Bavaria is was basically "everyone against the Green party", the right-wing government (CSU and Freie Wähler) trying to out-populist the far-right populists from the AfD while trying to not sound too much like them - with the result that the AfD gained 4.4 % points compared to the last elections, FW gained 4,2%, CSU lost 0,2% (looks like they weren't populist enough) and the Greens lost 3,2%, losing the

Indeed German politicians have been consistently ignoring their voters' mandate for the last two decades:The SPD (originally the worker's party) has destroyed the welfare state, the CDU (center right) lets in millions of refugees, and the Green party (originally anti war) goes to war.It will be interesting what happens in the next federal elections. In the Berlin state elections the "ultra right" AfD had 12%.The reason is of course that they also represent positions