Neuhoff: End firewall against AfD

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00:00Okay, so you're saying that in the medium term, the new chancellor will be forced to

00:06work with the AFD because there won't be an alternative.

00:09In the longer term though, do you see Germany's election system, electoral system, having

00:15to reform because it has this mechanism that allows for a firewall which parties like yours

00:24completely oppose?

00:26Yeah, the result of this is a high polarization of German society.

00:34AFD has grown stronger over the past years to the extent of now 20.8 percent, which is,

00:43as you said before, a historical mark.

00:48And so the other parties in some of the states, like Thuringia for instance, they have to

00:55build all-party coalitions just to prevent AFD from the government.

01:00In Thuringia, we yesterday reached 38 percent.

01:05So sooner or later, these coalitions, all-party coalitions against AFD just won't work.

01:12The only solution is to break down the firewall and to understand that for the benefit of

01:19the country, for the well-being of its people, only a collaboration, a cooperation with AFD

01:25will help.