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Czaja blames traffic light policy for AfD upswing
“Among those who are currently in favor of the AfD, there are also many people who are simply disappointed,” says CDU General Secretary Mario Czaja. photo
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Why are more people currently drawn to the AfD? CDU General Secretary Mario Czaja believes it is due to dwindling trust in democracy – caused by “ruled chaos politics”.
CDU General Secretary Mario Czaja attributed the AfD’s upturn in polls to uncertainty caused by the traffic light coalition’s policy. “But of course we also have to ask ourselves self-critically why these disappointed people are turning to the extreme fringes,” said the opposition politician to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
“We are observing the increase in support for the AfD in the current opinion polls with great concern,” said Czaja. There has always been a right-wing extremist potential throughout the country. “We can’t reach this hard core and that’s not our goal either. But among those who favor the AfD at the moment, there are also many people who are simply disappointed, who are increasingly losing trust in democracy and its institutions .” This is “mainly due to the great uncertainty that the traffic light causes with its leadership-less chaos policy, be it with the heating, with the health care or with the topic of immigration”.
AfD boss Tino Chrupalla saw the polls as confirmation of his party’s course and particularly emphasized the clear demarcation from the Greens. “Citizens can see where the value-based policy of the Greens is leading. Namely to economic war, inflation and deindustrialization,” he told the Funke newspapers.
According to a survey, the Alternative for Germany has drawn level with the SPD and is the second strongest political force together with the Social Democrats. In the new ARD “Germany trend” the AfD gains two percentage points and comes to 18 percent. In the Infratest dimap survey, the SPD has lost one percentage point to 18 percent compared to the survey at the beginning of May. Clearly the strongest force is still the Union with 29 percent (-1).