Berlin fears AfD win will undo efforts against far right

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Berlin fears AfD win will undo efforts against far right
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By Yann Schreiber (AFP)     8 hours ago in Politics

Berlin prides itself on being hip, multicultural and tough on the racist far-right -- but that image could take a beating as an anti-migrant party eyes election gains Sunday.

Many in Germany's left-leaning party capital are terrified by the likely strong showing for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is polling at up to 14 percent.

They worry that a win for the Islamophobic AfD -- which is especially popular in poor areas of the city's former communist east -- will undo Berlin's long struggle against neo-Nazi groups such as the NPD party.

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[kidd]

The AfD:
- supports Germany's membership in the European Union 
- does not want further European integration
- wants to undo the euro currency,
- wants to stop the bailouts by the eurozone for countries such as Greece,
- supports direct democracy,
- supports dissolution of the Eurozone,
- opposes immigration,
- opposes gay marriage.

They are hardly Nazis or neo-Nazis. They are tepid-right, but are probably just right for Germany.

[Fishrrman]

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"Berlin fears AfD win will undo efforts against far right"

We can certainly hope so.

And that once undone, the far right will begin to establish "efforts" and policies to rein in the far left.
... which is actually constitutes "the mainstream politics" of most of Deutschland.

It's the AfD and the rest of "the far right" that actually has a chance of saving and restoring Der Vaterland...