Alternative to Germany (AfD). Paragraph 3 – More to the right

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Despite intraparty quarrels in the 2017 national election, AfD was spectacularly successful (12.6% of support and 94 seats) and first found herself in the Bundestag. It became the largest of the smaller parties, ahead of FDP, Left and Green

After the creation of a government coalition by the Chadeks and SPD, she formally led the opposition in the Bundestag. As a candidate on the AfD list, FraukePetry won 1 of 3 tickets to this organization in Saxony. After the election, she declared the departure of the Parliamentary faction (club) of the AfD and announced the creation of the Blue Party, which, like the earlier ALFA and LKR Lucky, did not lead to a crucial weakening of the AfD. The head of the AfD Parliamentary faction, Alexander Gauland, the leader of the national-conservative wing became an crucial figure and at the organization convention in Hannover in December 2017, he became, alongside Jörg Meuthen, 1 of the 2 organization presidents.

The year 2018 is simply a further increase in AfD's support in the polls and entry into the last yet unattainable Land Parliaments in Bavaria and Hesse, but besides a continuation of the factions within the party. In 2019, the national-nationalist current with Höck is gaining strength. Successes in the election to the Land Parliaments in Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia in 2019 strengthened the party's right wing, due to the fact that it was in these lands that it had the top support.

The advancing organization turn right is urgently observed and in March 2020 the Office for Constitution Protection (BfV) recognizes the AfD's land structures in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt as right-wing and extremist organizations. The strong position of the fresh far right leaders did not translate into a force of substantive arguments and AfD messages to voters. They failed to "point" the Merkel government. They have not noticed that anti-immigrant rhetoric is already little effective. They couldn't make themselves clear in the context of climate defence movements. They failed to organize anti-vaccinationists even in their own ranks. In general, they could not formulate a clear, convincing political offer to voters. This resulted in a tiny decrease in support in the subsequent elections to the Bundestag in 2021 – 10.3% against 12.6% in 2017.

In February 2022 the organization leaves Meuthen, the most crucial figure of the old average conservative-liberal current. With his departure, right-wing-radical forces gained a decisive advantage; from the national organization convention in Riesa they accounted for about 60% of delegates and two-thirds of board members. The transition from the right-to-populist organization to the right-extremist organization became a fact, as it were "sealed" by the aforementioned decisions of the Constitution Protection Office.

The tap in the polls didn't take long. The recovery of the lost field is not so much the merit of the AfD as the rapidly falling assurance in the ruling coalition, in which sparks are increasing, and the coalition government ranks more and more failures. In a serious crisis following Angela Merkel's departure, she is the dominant CDU for years in Germany, which besides began to decision to the right; to her AfD voters she says: the real right is us and not the CDU; choose us. Anti-immigrant sentiments have increased again in the EU, including Germany, and this has long been a "political gold" for AfD. The German economy has slowed down and revived old fears about jobs, surviving standards etc. The right-wing environment has besides been able to force "people" on "elity".

AfD's ratings scope further records and in the easternlands nearly approaching 40%. The headlines are shouting about the political earthquake next year in Germany. If the listing continues to grow, then the September elections to the Landtags (national Parliaments) AfD can win and take over these lands.

This may happen, but a dangerous competitor appeared unexpectedly. erstwhile left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht is in the process of registering a fresh organization that has launched with fierce criticism of national government policy on economical issues, climate change and demands a restrictive migration policy. There is simply a chance that those of the voters who now support the utmost right-wing AfD solely out of anger at government policy will find their place in the left-wing to not say left-wing, Wagenknecht party.

It is besides hoped that the judgement of the national Administrative Court in Münster announced in February 2024 will reject the AfD's complaint on, in her opinion, wrongly qualified by the Constitutional Protection Offices in respective of the Lands of AfD's structures as a right-wing extremist party. If this happens, the road to the possible illegalisation of AfD by the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Constitutional Tibunal) will open.

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