The reactions to the TV duel between Björn Höcke and Mario Voigt vary widely. Both sides can score points for themselves.
The moderators provided the most important moment of the duel. The big stage was a risk for the broadcaster - but ultimately those responsible should be satisfied with the outcome. The duel was the successful unmasking of a right-wing extremist AfD politician and a breach of a taboo that gave him a nationwide stage for the spread of his ethnic ideas. It was scheduled to last 45 minutes but ultimately lasted 70 minutes. HöCke did not want his most extreme statements from the past to be the focus. He also reinterpreted the term “remigration” coined in the new right camp, i.e. the expulsion or expulsion of millions of people with a migration background. His anti-Semitism is also denied by the Central Council of Jews, which continues to see the CDU as the greatest danger to life in Germany. There were more than two possible answers to the question “Can you speak freely in Germany?”