Tens of thousands of people demonstrated today in more than 60 German cities against the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the far-right populism and asking the democratic parties not to cooperate with the AfD after the election. According to the police, in Berlin at least 35,000 people gathered at the Brandenburg Gate and, holding candles and lanterns, sent their message “against the country’s turn to the right”, with slogans against the cooperation of other parties with the AfD. “Otherwise, there will be an uprising of the dignified,” shouted the demonstrators. Christoph Bautz, head of the Campact organization, which co-organized the demonstration with “Fridays for the Future” and the “Parents Against the Far Right” organization, stressed that “the democratic parties must help to withstand the ‘firewall’ and not to cooperate with the AfD” and, specifically addressing the leader of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) Friedrich Merz, warned that “if he seeks a majority with the AfD on immigration issues, there will be a revolt of the decent in this country”. At the demonstration […]
Source: News Beast
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