Can the AfD seize power, is democracy in danger? No, says the former Federal President at Lanz. And at the same time: yes.
Joachim Gauck is fine, that’s nice to hear. “Life is summery,” he says. The former Federal President, 83 years old, has just gone on vacation, he comes from the Baltic Sea. Markus Lanz brought Gauck into the studio at the beginning of the political summer break to assess the damage that the Berlin staff had caused in the past few months. Fear, frustration, radicalization in Germany, the AfD in polls at twenty percent. What’s happening right now, Lanz wants to know from Gauck, whom he introduces as a “teacher of democracy”. Is German democracy in danger?