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“The United Kingdom was absolutely right when it decided to leave the European Union and Germany should hold its own exit vote,” Weidel said, according to The Telegraph website.
She said the vote would take place if the AfD government fails to push through reforms that would limit the excessive powers of the “unelected” European Commission.
“If reform is not possible, if we fail to restore the sovereignty of EU member states, we should let the people decide, as Britain did,” she told the Financial Times. “And we could hold a referendum on Dexit – Germany’s exit from the EU,” she said.
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A victory in such a referendum would probably be a big deal for the “Dexitarians,” even if it complied with Germany’s strict referendum laws, since 90 percent of the population supports continued membership. Furthermore, the survey found that even in the AfD, less than half (45 percent) of members would vote to leave the EU.
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By Tuesday, the AfD was able to either consolidate or confidently maintain its position as the second most popular party in surveys. Ahead of the state elections in September, he is leading the polls in all five eastern German states.
Their results in June’s European Parliament elections will also be closely monitored, including in the context of predictions of possible success for Eurosceptic parties in a number of countries, including France, Austria and the Netherlands.
Nationwide, the AfD received 22 to 23 percent of the vote as of last week, less than the opposition center-right Christian Democratic Union (the CDU is at 32 percent) but more than any other party in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government faces problems.
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However, even proper preferences do not guarantee that the AfD will get a place in the future government. Because of her rhetoric, parties often rule out coalition agreements with her, so she doesn’t even lead one of Germany’s 16 federal states.
Weidel acknowledged that the AfD would not be able to take power in Berlin before 2029, but stressed that a future role in the government was “inevitable.” She predicted that former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU could help her with this.
“The CDU will not be able to maintain its protective wall in the long term.” We can create a clear right-wing majority. And the CDU cannot deny this for long, especially in the eastern federal states,” she emphasized.
She added that once the AfD comes to power, it will also reform tax laws, slim down the state and end Germany’s transition to renewable energy sources.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets
The secret services of the three eastern German states classify Alternative as right-wing extremist. After it became known that AfD politicians had taken part in a secret meeting of right-wing extremist groups in November, there were calls for the party to be banned.
Extremists in Potsdam planned to deport millions of immigrants, including those with German passports. The echoes of Nazi ideology in this policy shocked Germany, and anti-AfD demonstrations broke out across the country.
“It was just an attempt to criminalize the very idea of legal repatriation of people who do not have a residence permit or are subject to a deportation order,” criticized Weidel Correctiv, the media organization that revealed the meeting. “The AfD is a party that stands for enforcing the laws of this country,” she told the Financial Times.
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Thousands of people express their opinions in front of the Reichstag building in the heart of Berlin
The AfD is pro-Russian and is accused of being soft on Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Weidel said the 1.1 million Ukrainian refugees in Germany are not allowed to receive social benefits. “It is clear that after the war ends, all Ukrainians must return home. They are needed anyway to help rebuild their country,” she said.
The federal government is urgently warning against a Dexit. According to Franziska Brantner (Greens), State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, Germany’s exit from the EU would endanger “the foundations of our prosperity”.
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Decline to a two-year low
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Germany during large weekend demonstrations against right-wing extremism. And there is also dissatisfaction with preferences in the AfD. In the latest survey by the INSA agency for the Bild daily newspaper, it lost 1.5 percentage points and fell from 23 to 21.5 percent. This is the AfD’s biggest decline in polls in almost two years.
The sociologist Hermann Binkert, head of the Insa, said: “The demonstration against the AfD is supported by 37 percent of Germans. So they have an impact. However, the AfD remains the second strongest force, eight percentage points ahead of the Social Democrats (SPD). And 57 percent can’t even imagine that the AfD would vote.”
The governing coalition is not benefiting from the AfD’s decline. Olaf Scholz’s cabinet, consisting of his SPD, the Greens and the Liberals from the FDP, now has a total of just 31 percent. This puts it 21 percentage points behind its result in the 2021 federal election.
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