To evoke the refusal of traditional political parties to coalition with the extreme right, the Germans speak of “Brandmauer” (literally, a firewall) and the French, them, of “cordon health”. On January 29, before the elections that made him the future Chancellor, Friedrich Merz freed himself, accepting AFD’s support to bring an immigration law. A month later, Alice Weidel’s xenophobic party achieved a historic score in the legislative elections: 10,327,148 Germans acclaimed it, twice as much as in the previous elections for the Bundestag. Lily or less the same number of votes as the national rally and its allies in the first round of the legislative elections of 2024 – again, again, by two since 2022.
In both cases, it is a vote of conviction, by an increasingly young electorate, which carries AFD and the national rally at the gates of power … At the doors, only: one as the other are in Position of king’s makers and fodder their weapons for the next meeting in the ballot boxes. The heartbreaking show of the tripartite coalition of Olaf Scholz, undermined by the quarrels, will certainly have helped AFD. The post-dissolution “circus” in France could well produce the same effects in favor of the RN. Loads to Friedrich Merz to show the way by offering an alternative – a real – for Germany. An “impossible hero” titled the weekly Die Zeit. The “Last Chance” man. For Germany and for all Europe.