The AfD is in the majority of the German land parliaments. This success is based on a program that many refer to as “right-wing populist”. It is debatable whether you can develop to a normal party.
In the General election in 2025, the AfD is the strongest party. 28.4 percent of the votes had obtained, more than the CDU, for a good 23 per cent of the voters had voted, and significantly more than the SPD, of which only 16.5 percent of the Voters to convince.
The first government, in a small piece of political fiction, Justus Bender, a Journalist of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the day of the AfD. Bender’s political imagination offers a picture of the first days after the formation of the government: Immediately the new Chancellor André Poggenburg – in reality, currently Chairman of the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, the programme of the party. Apart he it first on a reduction of party funding. A discussion of a General prohibition of Islamic symbols in Public. In addition, the government is a party for more referendums.
That’s the way they might look like Bender, according to which, currently, is completely utopian – government time of the AfD. The Journalist admits in his book “What does the AfD?” but that everything could be completely different.
The risk of a “NPD light”
That it could come out differently, not least by the rather low probability that the electorate in Germany, a majority could inspire you for a clearly right-heavy program, how it designs Bender in his fiction.
Actually doubtful, the at TU Dresden, teaching was Patzelt end of political scientist Werner that the AfD will be present permanently as a party that goes against the established political System is a fundamental opposition course. So you have no long-term success. Politically viable, Patzelt in an interview with DW, the AfD only if you get involved in the cooperation with other parties. “An AfD, which sets itself up as an anti-system party, is fast becoming a NPD light, and can be excluded with the tried-and-tested mechanisms of our system and in the framework of the unbeträcht the rule of law. Only an AfD, which comes as a coalition partner in question, can actually do more to articulate as a Protest.”
“The AfD does not only phobias”: the political scientist Werner Patzelt
This Protest, the AfD articulating in a much coherent way, writes the at the University of Marburg faculty, political scientist, Reiner Becker. The party was composed of several intra-party wings: a national-conservative, a market liberal and a right-wing populist. The latter show, but also always open to extreme right-wing positions and actors. “In the field of tension of their wings, the party moves today between the political center and the right edge. And so far, the (potential) electorate is still patiently because of their wings in disputes, according to Björn Höckes ‘stigma-speech’.”
Neither the Höcke-speech – in the words of the Free University of Berlin, teaching political scientist Oskar Niedermayer – “conservative values” with “increasingly strong bridges to right-wing extremism” Westphalia, the voters – most recently in Schleswig-Holstein and North-Rhine – deterred from voting for the AfD. After this state election you will be sitting in a total of 13 regional parliaments, with vote shares between 5.5 (Bremen) and 24.2 percent (Saxony-Anhalt).
Also in the party’s controversial AfD-right-winger Björn Höcke
Party in the discovery process
The AfD, said Werner Patzelt, is currently a party in the fermentation, Making and clarification process. “And if you understand as a normal party, a well-established, so one that knows what she wants and also with some predictability, then the AfD is not a normal party.” The more was but nothing Unusual, so Patzelt: Well, the Greens have been at your feeder in the Bundestag, not a “normal” party. Politically, the AfD stand for the positions that would be shared by Parts of the population. “It does not represent any extraneous concerns, behind only pure phobias are, because otherwise you would not have managed to get in as many parliaments.”
The AfD, the Journalist writes Justus Bender, in the FAZ for the reporting the party responsible, distinguished by a peculiar train: “you want to redeem the citizens of the imposition, to not be able to at any time about anything self-determine and, as you wish, without having to on moral or practical objections to hear.” She was willing to take that claim for Freedom with authoritarian means to enforce – and this is precisely the ambivalence of the party deck. “It’s about how freedom fight can turn into a authoritarianism. As the demand for more democracy, a rule may be, against all the will corresponds to the alleged people.”
Close to the majority consensus
Idiosyncratic contradictions in the election campaign: poster for the AfD
And yet, the party articulated in far more than half of the land parliaments, the political will of a part of the voters. This is only possible, says Werner Patzelt, because at least in one area – the refugee issue – positions represent the equivalent, in the meantime, the majority consensus. “Now, Yes, but the majority consensus is that you can’t take endless many immigrants; that Integration cannot succeed on the basis that it is said, comes to this country and do what you want; that, in the meantime, the deportation was declared by not staying legitimate, even to the aim of the government; that is the claim, not Pursued under the Refugees only helpless, but also some nasty Finger would be, is realistic: All of this has raised the AfD early.”
Although the AfD have no solutions. They promise, however, to push the established parties. “As such, it is on the way to a normal party.” Whether it maintains this way: This is not to show the work of the AfD-politician in the parliaments. Also to your is a measure of whether the citizens of the party to convince her the compliment of normality want to give.