Chrupalla in the early start
AfD leader considers the population to be “incited”
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February 6, 2024, 12:21 p.m
In the early start, AfD leader Chrupalla says that the demonstrations against right-wing extremism have been “incited by the government through the media.” He describes the Thuringian AfD leader’s remigration fantasies as being taken out of context. And Chrupalla explains that politics is not that desirable for many women.
AfD leader Tino Chrupalla has dismissed the protests against right-wing extremism that have been taking place for weeks as a set-up. The AfD is “still stable at over 20 percent” in surveys, he said in the early start of ntv. “We see that, of course, the government is inflamed by the media, and that the population is being incited to a certain extent,” claimed Chrupalla. “And that worries me to some extent, that people are taking to the streets with the government.”
In last week’s trend barometer, the AfD stood at 19 percent. A new trend barometer will appear today at 2 p.m.
Chrupalla went on to say that he assumes that “this trend will change again.” The “political caste” is afraid of the European elections and the three state elections in East Germany.
Höcke quote “also taken out of context”
When asked about a statement by the right-wing extremist Thuringian AfD leader Björn Höcke that one could live with twenty to thirty percent fewer people in Germany without any problems, Chrupalla said that this quote “didn’t come from him in this form, or rather that was what it was Context torn”. It is true that “illegal migrants in Germany, over 350,000,” must be deported quickly.
Höcke literally said at an appearance in Gera in December: “We will be able to live in Germany with twenty or thirty percent fewer people without any problems.” At the same appearance, Höcke also said that the number of illegal migrants in Germany could be reduced by a few million. Such a number can only be achieved if German citizens are also understood as “illegal migrants”. For comparison: In 2023 as a whole, 351,915 asylum applications were submitted in Germany.
The context of Höcke’s statements is his call for a “large-scale remigration project”. He had already written about this in a book in 2018, saying that “human hardship and unpleasant scenes cannot always be avoided”.
Politics not desirable for many women?
In the early start, Chrupalla described his co-party leader Alice Weidel as a traditional woman. When asked, he replied: “Why not? Of course, absolutely.” Chrupalla described the view of the AfD’s top candidate for the European elections, Maximilian Krah, that feminism is “cancer” as “quibbling about words” that he doesn’t believe in “in this form”. “We have a clear view of the family. There are two genders in our country, and we emphasize that again and again. That is woman and man. And we subordinate everything to this world view and this family view.”
Regarding the low proportion of women in the AfD of only 10 percent in the parliamentary groups and less than 20 percent among the members, Chrupalla said that the proportion of women in all political parties, “at least as far as membership is concerned, is not over 50 percent.” In fact it is The proportion of women in all other parties represented in the Bundestag is above that of the AfDsometimes clear.
Chrupalla cited the reason for the low proportion of women as “that politics is certainly not that desirable for many women.” Nevertheless, there is no quota for the AfD. “For us it’s the quality that counts.”