The blow came unexpected: party leader Jörg Meuthen attacked the party wing around Björn Höcke at the AfD party congress with unprecedented severity.
But faction leader Alexander Gauland felt hit.
Rightly.
A comment by Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis.
Munich - The
corona virus is
rampant in Germany
.
And in the intensive care unit, the
AfD * is
precisely the party that never tires of denying its dangerousness.
Alexander Gauland
in the ambulance - the abrupt departure of the parliamentary group chairman from the
AfD party congress
for the desolate situation of the party
stands like a gloomy symbol
: There is the open battle between the bourgeoisie and right-wing extremists, the crash in the
polls
, the unprecedented breaking of taboos reminiscent of Weimar right-wing mob, who
were
smuggled into the Bundestag
by AfD members
to
fight there against the alleged "Corona dictatorship" (Gauland quote).
The strategy of
radicalizing the style and content of
the AfD as the
political arm of the “lateral thinkers” protests
and thus leading it to new strengths has
clearly failed
.
Always proceed further
sectarianism and marginalization of the party
forward.
Comment on AfD: Gauland is not solely responsible for the party's problems
Gauland, the man at the head of the parliamentary group, is not solely responsible for all of this.
But he gave the
radicals
the bourgeois face, the mask behind which
the AfD
had been
transforming
from a conservative protest party into a völkisch, partly right-wing extremist movement
for years
.
Höcke's (allegedly dissolved) "wing" is today the
AfD Nazi wing
, whose rabble troops find nothing in using the methods of earlier NSDAP apron organizations to
intimidate opponents
.
By threatening elected representatives in the Bundestag, the AfD has
done
its
critics a favor
that they hardly dared to dream of.
Comment on AfD: Party leader Meuthen is fighting for middle-class voters
Party leader
Jörg Meuthen
has
recognized
the
danger of death
in which the AfD has been
floating
since
observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution
- and dared to attempt a change of direction at the party congress.
It is the last attempt to keep bourgeois voters who turn away from the party en masse.
A
narrow, admittedly well organized majority
from the West German federal states followed him.
And again the AfD shouts
“division” and “betrayal”
.
Admittedly, this is so ancient in the “alternative” that even the much maligned “old parties” are bored.
However, it would be new if
the moderates prevailed for the first time
in the
third major power struggle
in the history of the AfD.