Dramatic increase in members of the extreme Alternative for Germany party

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” newspaper, an extreme alternative party for Germany, which has spent a good and rising period in Germany these days and has caused many concerns among traditional parties, has reported a significant increase in the number of its members.

This party announced yesterday that the number of its members has greatly increased. The far-right Alternative for Germany party announced on Tuesday that it currently has 40,131 members, which is about 37 percent more than at the end of 2022, a year ago the party still had 29,296 members.

This is despite the fact that all the other parties represented in the German parliament at that time had significantly more members, the Social Democratic Party having the largest number of members with approximately 380,000 and the Liberal Democratic Party having approximately 77,000 members. The increase in the membership of Germany’s far-right party is associated with its recent electoral successes at the state level.

Recent polls show that the party is on the rise at the federal level, steadily increasing in popularity. It is added. If federal elections were to be held next Sunday, the far-right Alternative for Germany would currently win 18 to 23 percent of the vote, according to pollsters, making it the second-strongest party for the first time behind the All-Party Alliance. become a Christian and even get ahead of the German chancellor’s Social Democratic Party.

This month, the extreme alternative party for Germany hopes to win the European elections in June and especially to make further gains in state elections in September (Saxony, Thuringia, Brandenburg). Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has classified this party as a suspected far-right case and is monitoring it. The party’s regional associations in Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt are already classified as far-right.

The results of a recent poll on the popularity of German politicians also showed that Chancellor Olaf Schultz Germany is the big loser of the year and his popularity has dropped even lower than the leader of the extreme Alternative for Germany party. It’s down ten points to 26 percent from last year’s poll, putting him in 12th place behind Alice Weidel, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party.

Recently, a German media, in an article regarding the good prospects of the success and rise of the German extreme party in the upcoming elections, considered the danger of a political earthquake in 2024 to be imminent in Germany and its coalition government led by Olaf Schultz.

“Michel Friedman”, a famous German journalist, recently said in a speech: “Next year is the year of the radical alternative party for Germany.
He looks at the future years with concern.

Poll numbers for Germany’s far-right party, which have been high for months, appear to be a prelude to this political earthquake. The winner of one or even more state elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg will appear.

In this way, on September 1 this year, Germany will be exposed to another political test. . New state parliaments will be elected in Saxony and Thuringia, and on September 22 it will be Brandenburg’s turn. In the polls, the far-right Alternative for Germany recently led clearly in all three states, in some cases winning more than 30 percent of the vote, the first time the party has won a state election.

The increasing popularity of the extreme party “Alternative for Germany” with its anti-European approaches has caused great concern among government politicians and European officials, and some have even proposed to ban this party.

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