Local parliaments
Study: Fire wall for the AfD in East and West similarly firm
In the municipalities, the established parties mostly avoid approval for AfD applications, say researchers. In the country in the east, the fire wall has larger cracks than elsewhere.
According to a study, the so -called fire wall of other parties to the AfD is largely stable in the municipalities. Nationwide, other parties in local parliaments voted in around 81 percent of the cases examined against applications from the AfD, as researchers from the Berlin Science Center (WZB) found. There are significant differences between West and East German federal states.
The study published on Thursday refers to the voice behavior in local parliaments across Germany and goes beyond an investigation that the WZB was released solely on East Germany. In the east, where the AfD became the strongest force in all federal states in the Bundestag election in February, the rest of the parties therefore border off as much from the AfD as in the west. In West German cities (18 percent) and counties (15.2 percent), they voted approximately as often for AfD applications as in East German cities (16 percent).
Researchers: No party keeps brand wall completely upright
In contrast, the fire wall shows more cracks in the East German counties. There, other parties agreed with 26.9 percent of the AfD applications, the study said. Among the federal states, Saxony-Anhalt was noticeable with most of the approvals (27 percent), followed by two West German federal states: Rhineland-Palatinate (24.7 percent) and Hesse (24.3 percent).
Nationwide, the researchers examined a total of 11,053 meetings of district days and independent cities from mid -2019 to mid -2024. In the period, the AfD submitted a total of 4,968 applications. The researchers did not investigate any cases in which the AfD voted for the applications of other parties and provided majorities.
The fire wall will be maintained by none of the established parties “without any ifs and buts”, the authors said. According to small parties and voters’ associations, the FDP and CDU were most common for AfD applications, but SPD, Greens and Leftists also gave their support. In the east, other parties would often have cooperated in administrative and infrastructure topics such as traffic projects, but in the West, on the other hand, more often in the event of voting on asylum and corona pandemic.
dpa
Source: Stern
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