Germany.- AfD believes that mass demonstrations against the extreme right are based on “defamation” – Spain

He describes this mobilization as a “last ditch effort” to prevent a good result in the regional elections in September.

Berlin, 29 (dpa/EP)

The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has criticized the mass demonstrations against the extreme right that have taken place in major German cities in recent weeks, blaming them for “slander and slander”.

AfD co-chair Alice Weidel has emphasized that these marches and negative reviews in the press “do not harm us in the long term, but make us stronger.”

The party’s co-chairman, Tino Kruppalla, has argued that this is “a distraction from addressing the real problems of this country” and has pointed to the government led by the chancellor, Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, trying to make a comeback. . for the people. “Against the opposition.”

For his part, Bernd Baumann, the AfD’s spokesman in parliament, has argued that it is a “last ditch effort” to prevent a good result for the far right in September’s regional elections in the east of the country. The AfD leads the polls in the states of Brandenburg, Thuringia and Saxony.

He argued, “We have a total of ten million voters and now a few hundred thousand voters have taken to the streets to support leftist and environmentalist politics.” “From our perspective, these groups have been put together and are entirely German leftist-ecologists,” he said.

Following revelations by the Correctional Research Center about a meeting of far-right extremists on 25 November, which was attended by the AfD and politicians, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated against the far-right in major German cities over the past two weekends. Have done. Individual members of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), as well as the ultra-conservative group Union of Values ​​(Verteunion) in Potsdam, where the term “emigration” was raised, carried out the forced expulsion of thousands of migrants.