«A vote open to everyone. Also to the FD ». Two weeks after the elections of February 23 for the renewal of the Bundestag, Friedrich Merz, the cancer candidate of the moderate block Cdu-Csu has shuffled the papers of German politics with a bill to facilitate the expulsions of irregular foreigners. A project made all the more urgent by the facts of January 22 in Aschaffenburg, the Bavarian city shocked by the collipical in a public park of a two -year -old girl from a 28 -year -old Afghan “doubly” illegal in Germany. The first time because two years earlier he had submitted the asylum application despite having entered Europe by Bulgaria; The second for remaining on German soil even after his asylum application had been rejected. In Aschaffenburg the girl died, with her the passer -by who tried to defend her while another minor and another adult were wounded in the last of a long series of attacks on the white weapon made by young foreigners. Attacks often accompanied, not in this case, from the cry Allahu Akhbar!. The patience of many Germans and Merz has also ended up in Aschaffenburg, he took advantage of it to break once and for all with the “open doors” politics dictated in the summer of 2015 by Angela Merkel, his historic opponent within the CDU.
The aspiring chancellor has opened the doors, Instead, to all parliamentarians ready to vote on the bill, including the sovereignists of alternatives Für Deutschland. A way to place social democrats and green, with which he will still have to govern in the next legislature, but the two parties have rejected the compromise, more interested in accusing Merz of having opened a political convergence with the black beast (indeed brown) of German politics . The motions have thus been approved with the votes of the moderates, liberals and alternatives, however aware that only one vote will not be enough to cleared it. For the co-president of the party Tino Chrupalla the convention to Excludendum will end when other parties will support Afd proposals. In the meantime, however, at the last congress, the direction has decided to cut the bridges with alternative junge (JA), the organization that, although separated by AFD, has always represented its youth wing: in 2023 the intelligence services cataloged it as “right -wing extremist group”. A moderate turning point? Conrad Ziller, professor of political science at the University of Essen-Duisburg does not believe it, and the Panorama says that the move “does not serve to break the ties with extremism, but to appear more serious in the eyes of the public with a new youth organization , thus contrasting possible exclusion procedures ».
Ziller does not even believe that Merz will regain The votes lost in favor of the AFD with a turn of lives against foreigners: «Research teaches us that this does not work. The speech becomes increasingly aggressive and the critical population bands against immigration cannot be regained, but continue to vote for the right -wing populists ». The sovereign party Ziller disputes the attitude to “inflame the anti -democratic sentiment between the population in particular through social media as well as the intention of weakening the principles and institutions”. However, it comes to be wondered if alternatives are changing: its managers continue to oscillate between moderation and extremism. In the same congress, the “Front Woman” of the Alice Weidel party promised to break down all the German wind turbines, forgetting that today they produce 29 percent of the energy consumed in Germany. But perhaps the voters are changing: the strong growth of the party, the second on a national scale with over 20 percent of the consensus in the polls, means that today for Afd only the 40 -year -old males of Est German with low qualification no longer votes , but also many voters with migratory origin, German citizens from a generation and hostile to irregular entered the country. This is explained by a forthcoming study of the German Center for research on integration and migration (Dezim). According to study, the “new” voters are no longer hostile to the “old” voters. Which explains why the sovereign party is looking for votes between those with Russian and Turkish roots: in those communities there are the greatest number of new German citizens. A small opening signal also came from the world of industry. The federal association for wholesale and the services (BGA) asked its members how they would react if Afd or the “Rossobruno” party BSW went to the government: 17 percent of entrepreneurs would consider their contribution and another 21 “useful” “Not harmful.”
