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Fire wall for the AfD is very holy in circles and municipalities
How stable is the AfD fire wall in municipal politics? Scientists have examined the voting behavior in district days. The result makes you take notice.
Researchers around the Harvard politics professor Daniel Ziblatt have systematically examined for the first time how often work with the AfD in Germany at the local level. On behalf of the Berlin Science Center for Social Research (WZB), they analyzed 11,053 meetings of district days and city councils between mid -2019 and mid -2024 – the “Spiegel” reported on Wednesday.
Accordingly, in almost 19 percent of cases there was a direct cooperation with the AfD, i.e. MPs of established parties agreed or personal details of the AfD, which are largely right. Of a total of 4968 applications that the AfD made in the examined period, 934 received the approval of other parties.
No party keeps AfD fire wall upright upright
The study authors saw a cooperation as given if at least ten percent of non-AfD representatives agreed to an AfD application. In some circles, the data situation was “limited”, the authors point out.
According to the analysis, none of the larger parties keep the fire wall upright. Long-wiling members of small parties such as the free voters worked with the AfD particularly frequently: in 86.5 percent of the cooperation cases, they gave their voice or candidates from the AfD.
FDP MPs were represented with 38.6 percent if there was a cooperation with the AfD, CDU representatives with 38.4 percent. The SPD (32.1 percent) and the Greens (29.5 percent) follow. Members of the Left Party (21.1 percent) cooperate the least.
No differences between East and West
According to the analysis, there are no significant differences between Eastern and West Germany- however, there are differences between the country and the city, at least in the East German federal states. There, there were more consent to AfD applications in counties than in independent cities: almost 27 percent in contrast to 16 percent.
Basically, the researchers saw a danger in cooperation with extremely right forces such as the AfD, since it could “lead to normalization and legitimization of radical forces”, as the “Spiegel” reported. So “a power of power quickly becomes the basis of one of her in the context of democracy, about elections, realized takeover”.
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Source: Stern
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