Germany’s Rightwing AfD Arrives at February Election as a Major Contender, With Alice Weidel as Candidate for Chancellor – Top-Polling CDU Party Pressured Into Alliance

Following the crumbling of Olaf Scholz’s failed, dysfunctional coalition, all German political forces are organizing and preparing for the ‘snap’ election in February 2025.

For the first time, the much-maligned but increasingly surging rightwing Alternative for Germany (AfD) is one of the major contenders in a national poll.

Today (7), the party nominated leader Alice Weidel as its first chancellor candidate.

This is a first in more than a decade of political history, as they make a real play for power.

Besides the primary challenge of getting the most votes, there is also the Globalist establishment ‘firewall’ under which none of the ‘mainstream’ parties consider working in alliance with it – despite the fact that AfD now ranks second in opinion polls, behind only the CDU opposition conservatives.

Reuters reported:

“But a string of state electoral successes by the AfD are increasing pressure on the conservatives in particular to drop their firewall to the party and consider a right-wing coalition, especially given the weakness of their erstwhile traditional partner, the neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP).”

“‘We are the second-strongest force in the nationwide polls and from this we derive our claim to govern, because we want to do better, we want to bring Germany forward again, we want to be at the top of the world again’, Weidel told reporters in Berlin from a stage adorned with two large German flags. ‘Voters clearly want a coalition of conservatives and the AfD’, she said.”

The Reuters report, not so biased as usual, admits that ‘far-right parties’ are growing fast across Europe, also coming to power in Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands and Finland.

“Nominating a candidate could allow the AfD to boost its media presence by participating in campaign debates, said Hans Vorlaender, political scientist at Dresden’s Technical University. Long dismissed as a protest party, the AfD is also seeking to establish itself more as a ‘normal party’, said Stefan Marschall, political scientist at the University of Duesseldorf.”

Weidel vows to free Germany from ‘one of the worst crises of its history.’

“The party wants to sharply curb immigration, particularly from Muslim countries, turn nuclear power plants back on, exit the European Union – unless it carries out major reforms – and end arms deliveries to Ukraine.

A survey by pollster Wahlen published on Friday put the AfD on 17%, behind the conservatives on 33%, but ahead of the SPD on 15% and the Greens on 14%. The conservatives, the SPD and Greens all have chancellor candidates.”

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