“What is the AfD? A party that starts liberal and becomes populist, that is born in the west and moves to the east, born from intellectuals and bankers and becomes a voice of the people?”. Luca Telese asks this on In Onda, the access prime time talk show on La7 that he hosts together with Marianna Aprile. On the left, there is a mix of disgust, astonishment, and disbelief at the feat of Alternative für Deutschland, capable of winning the elections in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt by surpassing 40 percent.
The answer to the question is given by Paolo Mieli, and it is very simple: “It is a breakthrough party and it is perhaps the first breakthrough party among a series of European parties.” “It does not only apply to Saxony but to Germany, obviously not in these proportions – emphasizes the historian, columnist, and former director of Corriere della Sera -. But it will apply to all of Europe and it is a phenomenon we will have to deal with for the next decade.”
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“These are political phenomena characterized strongly by the anti-immigration line. After that, I am tired of hearing that they are mostly voted by workers, I have been hearing this since I was a child. At the end of the 1980s, it was said: ‘The workers voted for the Lega…”. It is obvious that what remains of the workers is part of a people that reaches 40%, but it has not stolen votes from the center-left.”
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The largest party of the traditional German left, the SPD, has dropped from 40 to 9%, practically irrelevant. “The SPD has been losing votes for about twenty years, since it split from the Linke, it became subordinate to the CDU, there have only been national unity governments. That mix between the old left tradition and the old centrist or right tradition does not work anywhere in the world and the new party is destined to break through. We will see it in France, we will see it in Great Britain and maybe we will also see it in Italy, where there is a clear left, a clear right and there is no such mix which is the most terrible thing. When you hear ‘well, let’s make a cordon sanitaire‘, well: it is the premise to make that mix that makes them break through definitively, as the history of Germany shows.”
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