DAccording to Bundestag member Bernd Baumann, the AfD sees the mass protests against its policies as “the last stand” before this year’s elections. “We are not afraid of that,” said the parliamentary managing director of the AfD parliamentary group on Monday in Berlin.
“We see this as the last attempt, so to speak, the last attempt to somehow score points in the upcoming elections because the political arguments have run out in the parliaments.”
Baumann also said: “In total we have ten million voters, now a few hundred thousand have taken to the streets for left-green politics. From our point of view, these are different target groups that were called upon, which overall represent this entire left-green caste in Germany.”
More than half a million demonstrators
Tens of thousands of people took part in the demonstrations against right-wing extremism and the AfD that have been going on for weeks over the weekend. The Federal Ministry of the Interior assumes that more than half a million people took to the streets against right-wing extremism from Friday to Sunday.
The parliamentary managing director of the AfD parliamentary group Bernd Baumann in the Bundestag in mid-January
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A spokeswoman said there were 576,000 demonstrators in Berlin on Monday. She referred to police figures, but also pointed out that precise information was missing because there was no reporting system. The trigger was a report by the research center “Correctiv” about a meeting of radical right-wingers in Potsdam with some AfD politicians as well as individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Union of Values.
The former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, said he spoke about “remigration” at the meeting on November 25th. When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that a large number of people of foreign origin should leave the country, even under duress.