Deborah Cole
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first heard May 2026
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Well, because we're dealing with regional elections, you know, each state has its own issues, its own candidates, its own flavor.
But I think that the direction of travel has become clearer and clearer as time goes on.
It's a rejection by a significant part of the German electorate.
sort of, you know, the political establishment of politics as usual.
And you have, you know, the AFD becoming this kind of collecting pot for the, you know, growing ranks of the disaffected in Germany, people who have just lost faith that the traditional parties are going to be able to solve the problems that are most pressing for them.
So, you know, cost of living issues, generally the state of the economy, things like deindustrialization.
And so that has been basically AFD was for a long time, you know, the sort of none of the above choice, a kind of, you know, a vote of protest.
And it's increasingly kind of created this culture that, you know, if you don't like the status quo in Germany, you are welcome here.
You are welcome to talk about that, especially in the former communist East, where a lot of people feel like they've been treated as second class citizens for the last
decades.
So, yeah, a lot of issues in play.
Well, you know, there is a general sense that, you know, things cannot go on as they have been.
I mean, you can't just have, you know, voters punishing his party and the mainstream in election after election and keep going on as if nothing had happened.
At the same time, there are a few reasons why I'd say, you know, the good money might be on Friedrich Matt staying on for at least a little bit longer.
I
one of the things is that it's quite difficult to replace a chancellor at the top in Germany against his will.
are constitutional barriers to that.
The other thing is that, you know, the chancellery is a bit of a poison chalice at the moment.
I mean, Germany has problems that really do look quite intractable.
And Friedrich Maatz has not been able to find the solution.
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