Has the ‘Firewall’ of Germany violated against the right end for the success of AFD?

One in five Germans put an X in the box for alternative for Germany (AFD) on Sunday: a record result that has made them the second greatest force in German politics.

Monturing the back of that success, the party is now asking for the end of consensus in German politics so as not to work with the extreme right.

That “Firewall” – Fire wall In German, he has worked since the end of World War II, but the joint leader of AFD, Tino Chrupalla, says: “Anyone who erects the Firewalls roasted the grill.”

There is a determination among all the main games of Germany to maintain that block in place, and the German public supports them: 69% will see AFD as a threat to democracy, according to voters surveyed on Sunday.

Friedrich Merz, who won the elections for conservatives, believes that the only reason why AFD exists is due to problems such as migration and security that must be addressed: “We need to solve these problems … then that part, the AFD, the AFD, the AFD, the AFD, the AFD, It will disappear. “

The AFD won 20.8% of the votes nationwide, and as shown by the clear blue areas of the map, it was dominant in the five states of the East, ensuring 34%.

“The East Germans have made it very clear that they no longer want a Firewall,” said Tino Chrupalla.

Friedrich Merz will now enter conversations about the formation of a government with the social democrats, who were third.

Although his party won 28.6% of the votes, it was still his second result since World War II.

The support to the AFD doubled, and one million of their voters left the conservatives of Merz for them, according to a survey conducted by the Institute for Infortest Dimap Research.

Voters have not been discouraged by the fact that Germany’s national intelligence classifies parts of the AFD as right -wing extremist, or that the party has now adopted a policy called “remigning.”

The AFD argues that the remigning means deporting immigrants convicted of crimes, but the term has been used by the extreme right of meaning mass deportations.

One of the big problems for Christian Democrats is how to recover their voters and stop losing more.

Merz has already coquetized with the AFD in Parliament, trusting his votes to promote a motion on migration.

But it was clearly chopped by a public protest and the mass protests that followed in many German cities.

It is unlikely that Germany’s chancellor in time will try again, especially if it forms a central left government.

But now the AFD has more than 150 seats in Parliament, its particular supporters believe it is time for the Firewall to go.

“I just hope the Firewall falls. But we all know that it will not be so,” says the influence of Tiktok pro-Afd Celina Brychcy, 26.

“I think it will fall no later than new elections are held. Then they will have to realize at some point that they cannot happen with what they are doing at this time.”

“I think he Fire wall He will stay, “says Dominic, 30, who voted for AFD in Saxony.” I want the government to really think about their own people and their own country. “

The pressure to tear down the long -standing Firewall not only comes from the AFD, but also from the main figures in the Trump administration, including the US vice president JD Vance and Elon Musk, who have repeatedly backed the party.

Most of the voices you hear challenging the Firewall come from the East, which may not be surprising taking into account the deep reach of the AFD, especially in the five eastern states outside a total of 16 in Germany.

They won 38.6% of the votes in Turingia and 37.% in both Saxony and Saxony-Anhaltfar ahead of the CDU. It makes them more difficult to keep along the arm.

In one of the great talks on German television on Monday night, hard but fair, a local mayor of Saxony, Mirko Geissler, believed that the AFD should be put in the “playing field”, so that they could show what They could do. If not, they would end up increasing 40-50% in the surveys, he warned.

Liane Bach, a mayor independent of a village in Thuringia, said that in her region, “AFD voters are not right -wing extremists.”

A CDU politician in the program, Philippe Anthor, admitted that there should not be “firewalls between democratic parties and people who vote AFD.”

That is the main problem that the big national parties will have to address. How to avoid the ostracism of AFD voters who clearly have no problem to violate the Firewall.

A mayor said that one of his fellow residents who was also a councilor of AFD was fixing the local source. It didn’t make sense not to work with him.

Professor Conrad Ziller at the University of Duisburg-Essen believes that the greatest threat to the Firewall could come at the state level, instead of nationally.

“If you have problems building a coalition in a state, then, at some point, there could be a minority government that depends on the AFD, or obtain votes from the AFD from time to time.”

Nationally, the worst case would be a collapse in a coalition led by Merz: “Merz could make mistakes. If it becomes really hard with immigration, it could be problematic with the SPD.”

Germany has already seen an early choice due to a collapse of the coalition, and Alice Weidel of the AFD has made it clear that it is looking for early elections.

Her repeated appearances in the debates of television elections have made her a prominent figure in Germany and helped raise the profile of her party.

But it was the constant approach to migration and security that became the number one problem for AFD voters, partly fed by three mortal attacks, all allegedly carried out by immigrants.

Addressing the insecurity and perception of it will be an immediate task for the next government, when it finally takes shape.

Underlying the urgency, the leader of the central right of Bavaria, Markus Söder, said that the need to address immigration, along with the hesitant economy of Germany, was “in fact, the last bullet of democracy.”

It is not about violating the long -standing Firewall for the moment.

And the secretary general of Merz’s party, Tom Unger, insisted that there should be no collaboration with a party that opposed the ties of Germany with the West, his membership of NATO and “the European idea.”

That was incompatible, he said, with the “central DNA” of the conservatives.