The slogan basically translates over to 'Germany, but normal'.
I admit, it's marginally catchy, but it forces people to review the literature and positions of the party. No longer a one or two-topic party? For the past three years, I'd suggest that AfD has cleaned up a good bit and has thirty-odd platforms to campaign upon.
Their path to the fall election? I think their big 'surge' has hit the peak and they are lessening down to around a 8-percent national vote situation.
The fact that they suggest to preserve the nuke energy system? It's a bit odd and puts them at opposition to all other political parties. Same for maintaining the coal energy system.
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You blogged the other day about the Czech Pirate Party and how they created a broad platform and have thrived whereas the German branch (one issue wonder) has faded.
Looking at the AfD platform it would appear they have something for almost everyone. And they are sounding like the 'party of the common folk'(of course, the devil is in the details but on the surface they sound good on some issues).
I guess the question is can they get their message out as the state media will be blocking as will social media. If not, then I agree with you they will continue to fade, but, if they can I would tend to believe they will grow their vote come the fall. As always, just my 2¢.
The Czech Party thrives because of one central character (the party chief) who is in some way a Elon Musk/JFK type character. They are center-left because of the way this guy led them.
The AfD has no one of that type of character. Of the top ten individuals in the AfD....I'd classify four of them extreme far-right nationalists, which doesn't sell to a great majority of Germans. The old guy for the party, Alexander Gauland, if he were 20 years younger....probably would be the 'energy' that the party needs.
The political spectrum in Germany is fairly diverse, and the country is more fracture now, than it was in the 1920. I think AfD can survive around...mostly as a 8-percent party, and never being in any coalition. In several states, the East in particular...they might have 30-percent of regional vote and be a dynamic for the next decade.
If the German Pirate Party copied the Czech program....they'd probably take a quarter of the German Green Party votes...maybe even a quarter of the SPD Party votes. But that would just add one more 'big' player (any party having more than 5-percent of the national vote), and show more fracture.
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