A year after its disappointing result in the legislative elections in September 2021, the movement organized a rally in the heart of Berlin, Saturday October 8, on the eve of elections in Lower Saxony and municipalities in Cottbus, where it could delight the town hall.
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Anti-Euro at its foundation in 2013, which became anti-immigration and anti-Islam thanks to the refugee crisis, in 2015-2016, then antimasque and antivaccins at the height of the COVID-19 epidemic, In 2020-2021, the alternative far-right party for Germany (AFD) again changed priority: Saturday October 8, it is in the name of “energy security” and “fight against inflation “May his sympathizers ended up on the vast lawn that separates the Reichstag from the Chancellery, in the heart of Berlin.
A year after its disappointing result in the legislative elections of September 2021 (10.3 %, down 2.3 points compared to 2017), AFD intended to make this gathering a demonstration of strength. In total, the police counted just over 10,000 participants. Four times less, of course, than in the August 2020 demonstration against anti-Cavid restrictions, at the end of which a few hundred far-right activists had tried to force in the Reichstag. But all the same twice as much as the last time that AFD had called to protest against the migration policy of Angela Merkel in Berlin, in May 2018.
Basically, the few party officials who spoke on Saturday, only repeated what they have said for weeks, namely Germany would be much better if it was getting closer to Moscow. “Let’s finish with the sanctions!” Harted the president of AFD, Tino Chrupalla, ensuring that “the price of gas will become normal when we buy cheap gas again to Russia”.
attacks against the current Minister of the Economy
By speaking in the face of demonstrators, some of whom had come with Russian flags and others with signs demanding the restoration of Nord Stream 1 and 2, the high -right German man, Was warmly applauded. But it was above all his attacks against the current Minister of the Economy, the environmentalist Robert Habeck, who earned him the most success.
“Habeck declared an economic war on Russia. In truth, it is against our own country that he is at war,” said Tino Chrupalla, before having the crowd chartered: “Habeck Muss Weg ! “(” Habeck must release “). A direct echo to the “Merkel Muss Weg!” Rhythm of the AFD demonstrations during the former chancellor.
Although his name was also whistled, the social democrat Olaf Scholz was not entitled on Saturday to the same outburst of anger. In the midst of the demonstrators, Marc Vallendar, AFD deputy in the Berlin Regional Parliament, has an explanation: “Our chancellor is so transparent and tasteless that it is not easy to mobilize against him. Habeck is much more divis. As long as he embodies everything we fight. “
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