As is established in the AfD? Who goes in search of clues, discovered the reference to the Union. The right-wing populists have deprived the Christian Democrats a piece of the political spectrum – and Angela Merkel is opposed.
Pulling it into the Hesse state Parliament with a group of the AfD is now represented in all 16 state parliaments
August 2014, Dresden, Germany, the Landtag election in Saxony
The whole country is even more nervous than they already are to election nights. Million rigid at 18 o’clock on the screens. The result: The “Alternative for Germany” (AfD), with nearly ten percent for the first time in a German Parliament. At the 2013 Federal election, the AfD had failed almost at the Five-percent-hurdle. The AfD country Director in Saxony, Frauke Petry, had spoken as set out in the election campaign and less on the founding theme of the AfD, the criticism of the Euro rescue policy, but a lot about family policy, and immigration issues. This seems to have worked. Petry speaks of the “establishment” – perhaps also soon in Germany.
“We represent only what has represented the CDU in the 1980s,” says Frank-Christian Hansel, at the time, AfD-Federal managing Director, on the historic election night in Dresden to journalists. The CDU experience camp, this is the beginning of the fragmentation of their political. Only two weeks later, the AfD rejoices also in the Eastern German States of Brandenburg and Thuringia on their way to the Parliament.
October 2018, Berlin, Reichstag building, an ordinary day in Parliament
For Albrecht Glaser, the AfD has launched a late career high. With 75 years of age, he is conscripted as a member of Parliament in the Bundestag. For 42 years he was a CDU member and local politician in the banking metropolis of Frankfurt am Main in the German state of Hesse. He could move at the time, “very free,” says Glaser of the DW – dressed as often in a classic bourgeois British landed gentry Look. He was not only conservative, but also liberal. The Hesse-CDU, however, was always pretty far to the right. In 1999 the election campaign with resentment against foreigners.
From the West-CDU to AfD: Albrecht Glaser
When Angela Merkel as CDU Chief in 2003, promises to be a radical tax reform, and seven years later, as Chancellor, “multi-kulti” was declared a failure, “because I was with her one opinion”. But then you have to leave the “main campus of the party” – phase-out of nuclear power, to Suspend the compulsory military service. 2012 a from Glaser from the CDU and 2013, in the early AfD. His party badge has the number 30. Types like glasses, there are many, that is why the AfD has been dubbed the “professors ‘ party”.
Review: Dresden, January 2015
Petrys AfD group meets with representatives of the Pegida-Demonstration. The Vice-Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel of the social Democrats referred to extreme right-wing rioters in the Saxon town of Heidenau as a “Pack”. This rant, then, about “politicians” as a “liar”. The polarization takes its course – and thus also keeps the populist AfD in the headlines. Of the “Pegida” takes away the AfD the Slogan “Merkel must!”.
Over the decades, it was the task of the CDU, to take care of the right edge. That is to say, to draw a line of what is democratically and to try, on the that are beyond the line, interact with and retrieve. Now, the AfD has taken over this edge. A party in the middle of a politician yourself, think beyond the line. Shortly thereafter, the AfD manages around the in the first parliaments in the West of the Republic.
In The Summer Of 2015, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia
A record heat wave in Germany and at the AfD. At the Essen Congress of the party with thousands of members verbally fought, yelling, screaming. Petry draws the majority of the party, finally on your page and the new party Chairman. On the edge Björn Höcke, the Central character of the fundamental party wing, looks on and thinks to overthrow Petry. Petry focuses on the AfD to the right. She’s rallying the radical party youth. The “conservative gap”, the strategic Narrative of the AfD, expanding it to the right. Höcke is still waiting.
The victory in 2015 to 2017, followed by the response from the party. Frauke Petry tried with the “Blue turn” a new beginning
In the subsequent period, the AfD conquered more land day Saxony-Anhalt, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg. The party remains its strategic direction is faithful to be civil and to the right at the same time. The common denominator is the enemy of Angela Merkel.
Elections To The Bundestag, September 2017
In the General election the AfD as the strongest opposition party in Parliament. Petry wants to bring the party back to a more civil course, loses the battle and comes out at the end of September 2017, the AfD for the next shift to the right.
Shortly thereafter, the introduction of the AfD in lower Saxony’s state Parliament to succeed – now, only two country parliaments are missing.
Again, The Reichstag, Berlin, October 2018
In Saxony the AfD is to ascend in the polls, the strongest party. Also Karsten Hilse had castles after the reunification in 1989, the CDU, a high, everyone chose the Second one. “I remained standing where I was, only the CDU has slipped to the left,” says the 53-Year-old to the DW – in a classic dark blue suit, white shirt and tie. Connected to the home and the value of conservative, as he had many in Saxony. Now the former police officer sits for the AfD in the Bundestag. In his constituency Hilse has overtaken in the General election in 2017, the CDU. The former CDU stronghold now ruled by the AfD.
Of the Ost-CDU to AfD: Karsten Hilse
A year after the entry of the AfD into the Bundestag, the AfD are well-established members, although formally, to sit in committees and make Speeches. Normal, but your everyday life is not still. Because many politicians and experts keep the AfD at least in part for the extreme right. He was a “regular guy” and had “nothing against foreigners”, says Hilse about yourself. With some of the colleagues of the CDU/CSU and the FDP, he could talk normal, the others are disposed “almost hostile”. Although it would be sometimes in terms of content, close to each other, “in concrete applications is the end then”. That is, the applications of the AfD will be rejected. Even if on a personal level, the dialogue with some moderate AfD politicians manage to remain limits. The AfD is compliant with the Constitution? Up to the end of the year of the Constitution and decide about the protection.
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Just Hilse is fighting against a premature exit from the brown coal, the Federal government and the Länder currently as a climate protection measure to negotiate. There is a new “Exodus, my home is threatened, just as after 1989, the Region could bleed,” says Hilse. In next year’s elections in Saxony, the first municipal elections in the spring, then in the autumn regional elections. The issue of coal’s exit fraught with political explosives. The AfD of wool about 30 percent, and then with the CDU to govern, says Hilse. What is the CDU rejects at the moment but still. Would govern, and not just Opposition to the establishment of the AfD.
28. October 2018, Wiesbaden, Hesse
With the 13.1 percent in Hesse, the AfD is now also in the 16.The Parliament moved in. Two weeks previously, had succeeded in Bavaria. Now the AfD is no white dot on the political map in Germany. This is a turning point: it is true that other parties, from the ultra-right camp have already made the leap into some of the country’s Parliament. But across the Board the made, as yet, no.
By the way: Only 40 kilometres from the Hessian Parliament in Wiesbaden, the town of Oberursel is located. Here was founded in February 2013, the AfD. In Hesse, the party took up in September 2013 for the first Time to a state election – and missed the indentation just. Five years later, has closed, so the circle.
29.10.2018, Berlin
Merkel announces her withdrawal from the CDU presidency. The AfD uses the surprising news to their political struggle for a place in the political landscape continue. “It is a success for the AfD,” said Alexander Gauland, one of the two AfD heads. “Merkel’s gone!” was the goal of the Party, says Alice ryegrass, one of the two group leaders of the AfD in the Bundestag. The CDU was completely gutted.