- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
A 22-year-old German politician who secretly served in Ukraine’s army now faces expulsion from the pro-Russian Alternative for Germany party after calling his own leadership “Russia-kissers.”
It‘s more that CDU became more „center right“ by German standards rather than them suddenly getting many votes. Merkel used to be chairwomen of the party when she was chancellor and most Americans would consider her left leaning. The party was a lot more popular back then too so becoming more right wing likely lost them a lot of votes.
The AfD is also confirmed right wing extremist by official watchdog agencies meaning it‘s eligible to get banned. So far the current coalition has not made any move to vote for a ban, claiming they want to defeat them politically. But that did not work out once in the last 10 years and will 100% fail. I expect either the CDU to completely implode soon or a ban of the AfD. Although it‘s questionable how effective a ban will be because some of their members will definitely start a new far right party immediately.
True, its also America meddling in Europe with their far right allies to overthrow European government and replace them with far right leaders, still it baffles me how many people are so racist. Not just in Germany this is also happening in The Netherlands. Fucking shameful… I try to win people over but they keep being racists, its kind of hard to bring them to have empathy for others, just makes me hopeless for this world and idk if I wanna live in it tbh my moral compass in the way
Isn’t rebranding also illegal? They can’t just make notAfD-2.
Though for my money, every person associated with the party should be banned from politics. Some should go to jail for undermining democracy and the state at the behest of Russia.