Is German’s “firewall” against the far right disturbed by the success of AFD?

One in five Germans put X in the Alternative to German (AFD) field on Sunday: A record result that made them the second most powerful power in German politics.

Riding on the back of this success, the party is now calling for the termination of consensus in German politics not to work with the far right.

That a “firewall” – Fiery wall He has worked in German since the end of World War II, but the joint AFD leader Tino Krupala says, “Anyone who elevates firewalls will quarrel behind them.”

There is a determination among all major parties in Germany to keep this block in place – and the German public supports them: 69% see AFD as a threat to democracy, according to voters surveyed on Sunday.

Friedrich Mertz, who won the Conservative elections, believes that the only reason AFD exists because of problems such as migration and security that need to be addressed: “We have to solve these problems … Then this party, AFD, will disappear. “

AFD has won 20.8% of votes on a national scale and as the light blue areas of the map show, it was dominant in five states in the east, providing 34%.

“The Eastern Germans have made it very clear that they no longer want a firewall,” said Tino Karpala.

Friedrich Merz will now start talking to set up a government with the Social Democrats who came to third.

Although his party won 28.6% of the vote, it was still their second worst result of World War II.

Support for AFD has doubled and a million of their voters abandoned the Merz conservatives for them, according to a study by the Infratest Dimap Research Institute.

The voters are not delayed by the fact that German intelligence classifies parts of AFD as a right -wing extremist – or that the party has already adopted a policy called “remigination”.

AFD claims that remigination means deporting immigrants convicted of crime, but the term is used by the ultimate right to mean mass deportation.

One of the big questions about Christian Democrats is how to return their voters and stop losing more.

Mertz is already flirting with AFD in parliament, relying on his voices to push a migration proposal.

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

The German Chancellor in anticipation is unlikely to try this again, especially if it forms a government with the central left.

But now AFD has more than 150 seats in parliament, in particular its supporters think it’s time to go.

“I just hope the firewall will fall. But we all know it won’t be so,” says Pro-Afd Tiktok Iffluencer Celina Brychcy, 26.

“I think it will fall in the latest when new elections are being held. Then they will have to realize that at one point they can’t handle what they are doing right now.”

“I think that Fiery wall It will stay, “says the 30 -year -old Dominic, who votes for AFD in Saxony.” I want the government to really think about its own people and my own country. “

The pressure to remove the long -standing firewall is not only from AFD, but from leading figures in the Trump administration, including US Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk, who repeatedly supports the party.

Most of the votes you hear that cause the firewall are coming from the east, which may not be surprising given the deep AFD range, especially in the five eastern countries of a total of 16 in Germany.

They won 38.6% of votes in Turingia and 37.% in both Saxony and Saxony-AnhaltFar more than CDU. This makes them more difficult to maintain the hand.

On one of the big conversations on German television on Monday night, raw, but Fair, a local mayor of Saxony, Mirko Geissler, believed that AFD should be placed on the “playing field” to show what they could do. If not, they would reach 40-50% in the ballot box, he warned.

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

A CDU politician, Philip Anter, admitted that there should be no “no firewalls between democratic parties and the people who vote AFD.”

This is the main problem that big national parties will have to deal with. How to Avoid Ostricting AFD Voters, which obviously have no problem breaking the firewall.

One mayor pointed out that one of her colleagues, who is also an adviser to AFD, fixed the local fountain. There was no point in working with him.

Prof. Conrad Siller of the University of Duisburg-Essen believes that the biggest threat to the firewall can come to the state level, not on a national scale.

“If you have problems building a coalition in a country, then at one point there may be a minority government to rely on AFD or receive votes from AFD from time to time.”

At the national level, the worst scenario would be to break into a coalition led by Mertz: “Merz can make mistakes. If it becomes really difficult for immigration, it can be problematic with SPD.”

Germany has already seen an early election because of the Coalition Coal, and Alice Wedel of AFD has made it clear that she is looking for early elections.

Her repeated appearances on the television election debate made her a prominent figure in Germany and helped raise her party’s profile.

But it is the constant focus on migration and security that has been the number one AFD voters, partly fueled by three deadly attacks, all allegedly done by immigrants.

Dealing with uncertainty and perception of this will be an immediate task for the next government when it eventually formed.

At the heart of urgency, Bavaria’s right -wing leader Marcus Soder said the need to deal with immigration, along with the collapsing German economy, was “in fact the last bullet of democracy.”

There is no question of breaching the long -standing firewall for the moment.

And the Secretary General of the Merz Party Tom Unger was adamant that there should be no cooperation with a party to oppose German’s ties with the West, his NATO membership and the “European Idea”.

It was incompatible, he said, with the “main DNA of the Conservatives.”