“Leaderless Chaos Politics”
Czaja blames traffic lights for the AfD upswing
6/2/2023 3:51 am
If there were federal elections this week, the AfD would probably enter parliament as the third strongest force, just behind the SPD. CDU General Secretary Czaja blames the federal government for the fact that so many sympathize with the right-wing party.
CDU General Secretary Mario Czaja attributed the AfD’s upturn in polls to uncertainty caused by the traffic light coalition’s policy. “But of course we also have to ask ourselves self-critically why these disappointed people are turning to the extreme fringes,” said the opposition politician to the newspapers of the Funke media group. The Union must be better able to “convey our alternatives to current politics, our concepts and our ideas,” said Czaja.
“We are observing the increase in support for the AfD in the current opinion polls with great concern,” said Czaja. There has always been a right-wing extremist potential throughout the country. “We can’t reach this hard core and that’s not our goal either. But among those who favor the AfD at the moment, there are also many people who are simply disappointed, who are increasingly losing trust in democracy and its institutions .” This is “mainly due to the great uncertainty that the traffic light causes with its leadership-less chaos policy, be it with the heating, with the health care or with the topic of immigration”.
AfD boss Tino Chrupalla saw the polls as confirmation of his party’s course and particularly emphasized the clear demarcation from the Greens. “Citizens can see where the value-based policy of the Greens is leading. Namely to economic war, inflation and deindustrialization,” he told the Funke newspapers. The AfD, on the other hand, stands for “peace, prosperity and work” and is “the only party that would not coalition with these Greens”.
According to the weekly trend barometer from RTL and ntv, the alternative for Germany has advanced by one percentage point to 17 percent and is only one point behind the SPD. If the Bundestag were elected this week, according to the Forsa survey, the Greens would get 14 percent, the FDP 7 percent. The Left remains constant at 5 percent week-on-week. Clearly the strongest force is still the Union with 29 percent. In the “Deutschlandtrend” survey conducted by Infratest dimap for ARD, the AfD even got 18 percent.