Hmmm… I guess it’s not that easy. FW surely have some populist topics, like around energy, but mostly I would call them conservative centrists, with libertarian influence.
They are conservative centrists theoretically, but their leadership - which really is only one person, there is no other prolific person in the party than Aiwanger - has just in the last year questioned our democratic system and done nothing but use rightwing populist talking points. Not to mention the “Flugblattaffäre”, in which it was revealed that as a teenager he was involved in distributing pamphlets joking about the Holocaust, Hitler salutes, etc.
In proper Trump style he of course says he’s being prosecuted by the greens and leftwing media (lol) for “speaking for the small man”. And the worst part is, we see it works. The FW are now a rightwing anti-establishment party.
It’s always the 30% uneducated racists, and 30% votes are enough to destroy democracy.
First count showed 15% AFD
UPDATE https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2023-10-08-LT-DE-BY/index.shtml
I think he added the % from the FW
Hmmm… I guess it’s not that easy. FW surely have some populist topics, like around energy, but mostly I would call them conservative centrists, with libertarian influence.
They are conservative centrists theoretically, but their leadership - which really is only one person, there is no other prolific person in the party than Aiwanger - has just in the last year questioned our democratic system and done nothing but use rightwing populist talking points. Not to mention the “Flugblattaffäre”, in which it was revealed that as a teenager he was involved in distributing pamphlets joking about the Holocaust, Hitler salutes, etc.
In proper Trump style he of course says he’s being prosecuted by the greens and leftwing media (lol) for “speaking for the small man”. And the worst part is, we see it works. The FW are now a rightwing anti-establishment party.
So you havent heard about the “Flugblatt Affäre” then?