Nouripour in the ntv early start
“The term remigration shocked a lot of people”
January 22, 2024, 10:10 a.m
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The Green Party co-leader welcomes the mass demonstrations against right-wing extremism. It remains uncertain whether they will make AfD voters change their minds. The protests are already noticeable for the Greens: more than a thousand people have joined the party within two weeks.
The Green Party leader Omid Nouripour attributed the mass demonstrations against right-wing extremism to the research of the “Correctiv” network on a meeting of right-wing extremists and AfD politicians near Potsdam. “People are worried and, to be honest, this unspeakable term remigration has also shocked a lot of people,” said Nouripour in the ntv Frühstart. He cannot estimate how these protests will affect AfD voters. But he hopes that this will “lead to a rethink among AfD voters because they will have to see through this research what contempt for humanity lies behind it,” said the Green Party leader.
He is not afraid that the mass protests against right-wing extremism could weaken the centrist parties. On the contrary, the Greens recorded an above-average number of people joining the party. “We are currently having a huge run of new members joining our party, something we have probably not seen in years,” said Nouripour. He spoke of a four-digit number of people who had come in the last two weeks. That shows that “people want to do something.” Many people are currently getting involved in civil society, including joining a party. Strengthening democracy is crucial, even if the AfD doesn’t exist. “The ideas are still there and fighting them remains,” says Nouripour.
Trump remains unpredictable
Nouripour, a trained foreign policy expert, is skeptical as to whether a re-elected Donald Trump will use the presidency to transform the USA into an authoritarian regime. You don’t know that, that’s a problem. Trump brings great unpredictability. “That’s why we have to prepare for it with everything we have, and that can only be done in Europe,” said Nouripour.
As an example of Trump’s notorious unreliability in his first term in office, he described an anecdote from his hometown of Frankfurt: “We had banks that set up shifts so that someone would get up at four or five in the morning and look at what he had tweeted, so that he could do it the opening of the stock exchange in Frankfurt with the time difference you can react accordingly.”