Alternative for Germany has joined France's National Rally and Reform U.K. in becoming the most popular party in its country, according to polls.

Alternative for Germany has joined France’s National Rally and Reform U.K. in becoming the most popular party in its country, according to polls.

A poll Tuesday showed Alternative for Germany — which is under surveillance by the country’s intelligence services over suspected extremism — is now the most favored by voters. The survey by broadcaster RTL put the AfD at 26%, ahead of the ruling Christian Democrats at 24%.

This is a high watermark for the European far right, a once fringe movement whose virulently anti-immigration, anti-Islam and culture-war politics were shunned by the mainstream just a decade ago.

Today, these parties have developed deep ties with President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, who openly cite nationalists such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as inspirations on policy and tactics.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Canada didn’t get the message. Poilievre’s Conservative Party won 24 new seats and came within 2% of plurality. They just didn’t get the landslide election pollsters were predicting a few months earlier.

    That’s nothing compared to the Labour Ba’ath Party-esque majority Starmer was handed last year. And it’s a bit crazy that UK Labour has fallen so far and so fast, by doing dick all about the tanking economy while demanding you make eye contact with a state censor while you jerk it.

    Schultz and Macron have similar problems. People hate them, and for good reason.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Labour has lost more support by its benefit cuts to the disabled and its willingness to kowtow to US defence corporation lobbying to suppress Palestine Action. Relative to those violations of fundamental rights and basic human decency, the porn ID brainfart is just noise.