Another New Political Party

For those who aren't aware....the AfD Party has been more or less a 'Frankenstein' creation....since day.  This is one of the odd things about the party.  I know that journalists usually hype about the anti-migrant or anti-immigrant stance, but there is a bit more 'drama' to the party than you'd expect.

In the beginning....AfD was supposed to be about anti-Euro strategies.....hoping to find Germans who favored the return to the Deutsche Mark. Three to four years later, they shifted and became the anti-migrant party.

This week, André Poggenburg announced that he was leaving the AfD Party.  Poggenburg (in his mid-40s)....has been an active voice of the party.Some might suggest that he was a bit talkative, and sometimes didn't clearly plan out his commentary.  The party and Poggenburg simply couldn't find a common ground.

What now?  Poggenburg says he's going to form another political party.  Curiously, he's got some AfD folks who let him, and they are forming up a party to fit into the fall state elections (three of them scheduled).  The word 'Patriot'?  They suggest it'll fit into the name of the new political party. Currently, the name will be ADP-M ("Aufbruch deutscher Patrioten - Mitteldeutschland").

Focus, the news magazine reports a good portion of the story.

The term Mitteldeutschland?  Poggenburg is letting public know that he's only aiming at a particular region.  It won't be a national party.

The odds of ADP-M mounting a serious win strategy in the fall?  Well....all three elections in landscape...are in the eastern section of Germany.  Poggenburg does have some public support.  My honest guess is that he'll take two or three points of the AfD potential voters.  Yes, I do believe that AfD could take 20-percent in each of the three states suggested....with this ADP-M group hurting them to some minor degree.

Could the ADP-M and AfD groups later rekindle some relationship and form into one party?  If you go back over the past hundred years of Germany.....this was often the case.  The Greens of today....were a combination effort to bring two groups into one party.