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AfD Boss Petry wants to give term from the NS-time positive meaning

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AfD Boss Petry wants to give term from the NS-time positive meaning

The word “nationalist” has wrongly have a bad reputation? AfD Leader Frauke Petry, a relaxing dealing wants more. Criticism soon followed.

A week before the elections to the Berlin house of representatives has voted AfD leader Frauke Petry to give the with national socialism brought the term “nationalist” has a positive meaning. “I’ll lock up; to me, to explain words Unwörtern,” said Petry of the “world on Sunday”. The equating of “folkish” with “racist” was an “unacceptable reduction”. The AfD Chief defendant, “that the negative connotation is extended to the word ‘people’”.

Petry said in the Interview that they use the word themselves. But you miss the event, that “nationalist” only in a negative context will be used. “If he has to do, it’s about the people, what is per se negative?”, she asked. Therefore, it should be worked, “that this term is again positive”. Ultimately, an associated attribute to “people” nationalist, “” argued Petry. The SPD politician Niels Annen, given this view, appalled: “This is no fun anymore: AfD advertises open to right-wing radicals,” he wrote in the short message service Twitter.

Civil war risk in Germany due to North African refugees?

In the Duden dictionary, nationalism is defined “” as a “in the racist ideology of national socialism”. The concept of the third Reich for the delimitation of a German “people’s community” than inferior prestigious groups, such as Jews or Blacks.

In connection with the refugee influx Petry spoke of a possible civil war in Germany. “What we are experiencing in pursuit of, for example, Christian women in our accommodation, also in the meantime in the common crime of allegedly protection seekers on the road, this is unacceptable. The more uneducated and often aggressive young male immigrants from North Africa come, the more the situation will escalate. We do not want a civil war in Germany,” she said of the “Welt am Sonntag”. Most of the migrants are not refugees – many would spend just as Syrians.

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Candidacy for the Bundestag – Petry wants to be strong Opposition

Petry also commented on their political career plans. In the General election in the coming year, you’ll be running for the Saxon AfD-country list, it said the “Welt am Sonntag”. As the election campaign topics Petry called in addition to more direct democracy, and of immigration policy, the “termination of the project Euro”, a “radical EU Reform so that they return to the original successes of the European community” and the family, energy policy and Internal security.

Basically, it is the goal of the AfD, “as a strong opposition party, maybe even as leader of the opposition in the Bundestag to collect,” said Petry. In the medium term, it was open for a participation in Government. The AfD should be “at least eye-to-eye” with a possible coalition partner.

AfD in survey poor grades for the AfD-politician

Nationally, the party to put in a survey conducted by the Emnid Institute for the newspaper “Bild am Sonntag” in the voters favor. The AfD in comparison to the previous week, with 13 percent, one point better. The CDU/CSU lost a point to 33 percent.

Every third German is expected, therefore, that the AfD established in the long term. However, this would be welcome only 21 per cent of the Federal citizens. In addition, the AfD politician to cut a comparatively poor: Nearly a third of the respondents considers them to be dishonest than other politicians, only eleven per cent, it is more honest.

At the state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the AfD was the last one out of the blue, almost 21 percent of the vote. Thus, the right-wing populist party became the second strongest force behind the SPD. In the election in Berlin in the coming week, Petry does not expect such a good performance. Berlin was “a more difficult environment for the AfD,” she said. “We expect a safe double-digit earnings.”

mas/sti (afp, dpa, rtr, welt.de)

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