Matthias Quent, you do research on the topic of right-wing extremism. What is the impact of the outcome of the election in Thuringia has on the position of the local AfD Chefs Björn Höcke in his party?
Matthias Quent: For him, it is a great success. Before, it was in the AfD fears that its rights orientation could drag the party down, but there was a effect for the party does not have a negative Höcke -.

AfD leader Alexander Gauland has located the Thuringian election night, Björn Höcke in the “middle” of the party.
by Which he proves that the AfD has now arrived in total in the right-wing radicalism. The attention of the Constitution protection should be secured to the AfD as a total party.

The AfD has declared itself to the Thuringia election to the people’s party. How do you see that?
First of all, the AfD in the East, is a people’s party, in the völkisch-nationalist wing dominated. Secondly, there is socio-structurally all of the layers and can mobilize. But, thirdly, this is the crucial point, is to their electorate not a cross-section of society, but it is especially far right-wing sections of the population, with a tendency to xenophobia, anti-Semitism, to the authoritarianism and pessimism on the outside.

fascists Are the Höcke-voters?
Not all of them are fascists, but all of the voters were not even on the inside, and voters of the NSDAP, fascist ideological. Nearly 24 percent have chosen in Thuringia, right-wing, and that too knowingly.

Is Höcke a fascist?
Björn Höcke acts, writes, and speaks fascistic. I call him a fascist as a pre -, so in the Tradition of those standing, to a “conservative Revolution”. The people have given the Nazis the way in which they spread doom and gloom and the faith in liberal democracy destroyed. So how Höcke and his party.

In the elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg the CDU and the SPD, respectively, are in their former strongholds, particularly shrunk drastically. How do you explain this development?
This is also an international Trend that the old political parties are eroding. This is so that the conflicts are now being fought, at least ostensibly post-material in nature. In concrete terms this means: It is the Pole of the cosmopolitan camp – especially the Green and in Thuringia, the Left – on the one hand, and on the other hand, the nationalist Milieu that supports the AfD. The other parties, such as Union, SPD, but also the FDP are at risk to be in-between ground. In this polarization it is at the Moment a priority for the future of liberal democracy, less economic compensation.

The Greens have run in Thuringia is a relatively maues result of the election with just over five percent. Why was that?
There come several factors. On the one hand, Thuringia is characterized extremely rural, for the Green affordable urban environment is almost completely missing. In small and medium-sized places, the Greens have not been able to score almost at all. In addition, the Green have set during the emotionally charged subject of wind turbines on a Per. Bodo Ramelow and the Left have certainly benefited at the expense of the Greens that he and his party are valid in Thüringen as a bulwark against the AfD. On the Truncation of Green and AfD in Thuringia shows that Berlin and the Federal German and global Trends in everyday life, very far away. The rift between the East and the West is deeper.

Ramelow and the Left in Thuringia, clearly the strongest force. What does this mean for the left party, which can elsewhere points in Germany already for a long time little more?
The result strengthens the Realo wing of the Left. At the same time you can credit the success of the left party in the Federal government. The questions in the party realignment that has because of the choice since the Debacles in Brandenburg and Saxony, in a sort of castle of peace, is likely to be soon discussed rather loudly. Also in the CDU is likely to arise in view of the severe losses sustained by a debate, if you have to open to the left or to the right.

as the previous red looks in Thuringia-red-green coalition is no longer a majority. What do you expect?
The coalition should first make more. The state Constitution expressly allows, that a government without a Parliament majority in a caretaker capacity. Later, the CDU could tolerate the coalition, at least until the next Federal election.

such An Arrangement between the left party and the Union is, as yet, unthinkable.
True, it would be a taboo. Wherein the at municipal level have long been Commonplace. And these elections are just a fraction of the democratic culture. There is no variant in the is not a party to a part of their voters have to disappoint. The electorate has formulated a difficult job, the policy must go new ways, to make Thuringia continue to be democratic, pragmatic, open-minded and liberal.

Created: 28.10.2019, 10:46 PM