Posted on 09/25/2017 10:00:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The nationalist Alternative for Germany was hit by party infighting Monday, just hours after winning its first seats in parliament, with its co-chief Frauke Petry declaring that she won’t join its Bundestag group.
Citing “dissent” with more hardline colleagues, Petry dropped her bombshell at a morning party press conference, catching other key AfD figures by surprise as she abruptly left the room.
The spectacle played out before the media put the spotlight on the tug-of-war within the party between radical and more moderate forces at the top, and raised questions on how far right it planned to position itself.
Although its beginnings as an anti-euro party were rooted in populism, the AfD’s rhetoric veered further right in the run-up to Sunday’s elections.
Key members challenged Germany’s culture of atonement over World War II and the slaughter of six million Jews in the Holocaust.
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“I decided after careful reflection that I will not sit with the (AfD) parliamentary group” in the Bundestag, said Petry who added she will serve as an independent MP.
The open squabbling put a damper on the party’s success, and pointed to a potentially rocky future for the party in parliament.
(Excerpt) Read more at independent.co.ug ...
Steam is still building in the boiler. This degenerate iteration of Western civilization will be erased, the easy way of displacement, or the hard way of obliteration.
It’s not about any individuals anymore. They are mere chips of wood at the crest of a tsunami.
AfD can now expect 24/7 attacks of fake news from all European media following their huge victory yesterday.
Note the newest meme perversion. The use and meaning of the term “soverignity” which they are having the socialist media define as “populism”.
Groups like that tend to be full of folks who like to complain and not to actually govern.
thanks RoosterRedux, related:
AfD leader Frauke Petry stuns Germany by quitting hours after being elected
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3588872/posts
AfD is a party of differing groups. Very reminiscent of the DNVP Party of Germany in 1919. It had around five significant factions within the party and barely functioned but always got 10-to-15 percent of the vote. You see the same tendencies with AfD.
The public? In terms of hard-core believers of the party....it’s probably less than 3-percent of the public. Everyone that voted AfD....did so to send a message to Merkel and the five other parties. If nothing changes in four years....the same crowd will return and vote AfD again.
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