🇩🇪 📊 AfD now the strongest party in Germany, polling at 25% nationwide. CDU + CSU for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic are in second place to a party that is not the Social Democrats. German politics have changed in a very big and historic way.
Migrations from other parties – esp. CDU/CSU – to AfD are sticky. For a time last year, the novel Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) pulled some AfD voters away, but many of those have returned, and others have come too. This is not a temporary blip.
German politics are different now, and they will stay different whatever happens – whether the AfD are banned or not, however long the firewall persists. (IMHO ban proceedings become more likely but their success less likely, the stronger AfD get).
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eugyppius