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Merkel’s Power Conundrum
- luckylion 8y agoThis article gets basically everything wrong about German politics. No, the AfD could not "very quickly [...] force their way into a coalition, and eventually become the largest party in the Reichstag" (for one: it's called Bundestag, it's just located in a building called the "Reichstagsgebäude"). Neither the right nor the left wing parties have gained substantially since the last elections. Merkel has been a focus point for right wing engagement. And lastly: "far right" is a problematic party attribution when the far right is for all intents and purposes claiming policies that Merkel's CDU and her personally claimed 10-15 years ago. It's correct to say that the AfD has lots of far right members, though. It just hasn't shown up in their (stated) political goals, as it does for the actual far right parties we have.