Tom Nuttall
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Jun
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And they're now sitting at eleven percent in the polls, um only a couple of percentage points behind the social democrats, the main party of the center left, who sit in government with Mr.
Merz's CDU.
Do you expect them to maintain that momentum?
Yeah, that's a big question.
I mean, they feel like the wind is in their sails.
It's not only that they're doing a lot better than they were, it's that their electorate and their membership has completely changed.
So in the past, one of the main bases for Delinka was an older electorate in East Germany, former communist East Germany.
Now what we have is a party that's become much, much younger.
Both in terms of its electorate and its membership, and also some of its leaders, including Ms.
Raj Scheneck, it's become much more Western in terms of its voter base.
It's about sort of 50-50 between West and East, which is a radical change from the past.
And this has meant that the sort of conversations that the party has and the way it presents itself to the electorate are rather different from what we saw in the past.
As the AFD has got stronger and stronger, it's now
Now the most popular party across all of Germany and in eastern Germany, by an absolute mile, De Linka likes to present itself as the most credible, as they would say, anti fascist force in Germany.
One of the things that they decided on in the election campaign last year was to have a very, very disciplined campaign focused basically on two issues.
One of them was the cost of living, and the other one was housing.
So rents have gone up very quickly in most German cities in recent years.
A lot of people have been struggling.
You do have very strict rent control laws in Germany compared to some other parts of Europe, but nevertheless.
less this is something that the party realized that basically everybody could get behind.
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