| Author (Person) | Göpffarth, Julian |
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| Series Title | EUROPP Blog |
| Series Details | 27.06.17 |
| Publication Date | 20/09/2017 |
| Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
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Opinion polls suggested that as many as six independent parties could cross the electoral threshold and enter the Bundestag in Germany’s federal elections in September 2017. In advance of the elections, LSE EuroppBlog ran a series profiling each of these parties. In the second article of the series, Julian Göpffarth traced the rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which narrowly missed out on entering the Bundestag in the last federal elections in 2013, but which was well placed to gain representation this time around. ------------ In the election held on the 24 September 2017 the AfD was seen to score a significant victory and secured 12.6% of the vote and a clear presence in the Bundestag. Anti-AfD protestors took to the streets in some German cities following the results. However, on the 25 September 2017, divisions within the AfD appeared when its co-leader Frauke Petry announced at a celebratory AfD press conference that she would sit as an independent in the Bundestag. Separately, four AfD MPs in the regional government in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern announced they were leaving the AfD to set up their own parliamentary group. In October 2017, Frauke Petry announced that she established the Blue Party, hoping to win over voters disenchanted by the far-right direction of the AfD. |
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| Source Link | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/06/27/the-rise-of-germanys-afd/ |
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| Countries / Regions | Germany |
