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Germany: media and politics are going crazy because the sovereigns are the second party

The German media are literally going crazy: according to the latest political polls by the Forsa society, the identity party, with the very radical positions Alternative for Germany, AfD, has grown powerfully in popular appreciation, so much so that it joins the Social Democrats of the SPD as the second German party. Here is an image with the percentages of individual parties

Now AfD has joined the Social Democrats as the second party, after months of growth. Not only that, the Greens have plummeted to third position. the CDU is growing, but much less than expected. The Liberals drop, but remain in parliament, exceeding the 5% threshold, which is also reached again by the de Linke left.

It seems clear that the "Semaforo" government, made up of Greens, Liberals and Social Democrats, does not satisfy the Germans. It will satisfy the media, but not the population, which is gripped by growing inflation and immigration that is increasingly pressing and less and less appreciated. Even the recent elections in the Lands have shown that these numbers are not just polls, but real. Not only that: where AfD did not show up, other sovereign parties prevailed.

Now the recriminations have started between the various parties of the so-called German "constitutional arch". If the left is calling for war against the AfD, Merz's CDU also says it has no intention of coming to terms with the identity party. With this reasoning, the sovereigns will still appear as the only opposition, further strengthening their positions. In six months they risk being at the level of the CDU itself…


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The article Germany: media and politics are going crazy because the sovereignists are the second party comes from Scenari Economici .


This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/germania-media-e-politica-stanno-impazzendo-perche-i-sovranisti-sono-il-secondo-partito/ on Tue, 06 Jun 2023 08:00:53 +0000.