In Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg, the AfD is ahead in opinion polls. Many people want to prevent it from participating in government. star met three of them.
The AfD is leading in election forecasts in all three federal states – it is not without reason that the upcoming state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg are being described as “fateful elections” for Germany. What would change if the AfD came to power? Is democracy really in danger? star met three people who couldn’t be more different and yet have the same goal: to prevent the AfD.
Cindy Reimer, left-wing activist and member of the district council, organizes demonstrations against the shift to the right in the right-wing dominated small town of Waldheim in Saxony. “We cannot call it a solution if everything simply moves to the right,” she told Stern in an interview. Although Nazis from the area know who she is, where she lives and actively threaten her, she does not want to let her political work be defeated. “I can’t say that I am afraid to go shopping or get in the car in the evening. I don’t begrudge them that either,” says Reimer. “But there are very often situations in the so-called ‘bourgeois middle’ when I notice that the church does not want to take a position, the mayors do not want to take a position. Then I ask myself: what am I actually doing here?”
Source: Stern
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