A prominent groups the Concerts Motto was we are more it began with a Moment Of Silence for the victim of the attack the prompted the initial protests a young man who was stabbed allegedly by migrants now in detention. The far right can germany defeat its demons thats our topic this week on quadriga and here are our guests its a pleasure to welcome Matthew Carney jake back to the program hes chief europe correspondent for politico and he says germanys demons are necessary and will never be overcome the question is whether germanys political elite is drawing the bright lessons from history the events of the past week suggest theyre not and its a pleasure to have valerie who theyre with us shes Political Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of spiegel online and shes been reporting on cam thats the f. T. Community is gradually merging with right wing extreme the. Groups in germany she
says if the moderates in the party fail to take a stand against this development they will inevitably be d
eastern state of the range of well let me show you know the exit poll figures that we have at the moment for you on the american conservative city you party has secured 22.5 percent of the vote a sharp drop of 11 percentage points a strong a showing as of yet is the socialist left party which leads the governing coalition at the moment and it s secured 29.5 percent of the votes the center left a socialist democrat s.p.d. is at 8.5 percent a strong performance by the right wing populous a of d. which has made a big gains and more than double their vote they are now on. 24 percent the environmentalist greens who have been riding a wave nationally have only secured 5.5 percent the business friendly is on 5 percent let s take you back quickly now to i know of course who s in the city of
just go back to work if they re not thanks and for it whereas before they were and i think that s a big part of what the f.d.a. is making making possible for the neo right matthew some people would say mainstream politicians are also lowering the threshold to the phobic talk and the person i mean in particular with the the head of the chancellor sister party the very conservative party he said just this week apparently in an internal party meeting that he thinks the main problem in germany today is migration horsy hoffa has he in fact helped to normalize the kind of xenophobia we re now seeing on the streets well i think we d have to know exactly what he meant by that i think he might have meant that this migration crisis which and the handling of the crisis and the political fallout from it is the mother of all crises politically in germany now because it has opened the door in many people s view to this search by the if d. which you know is you know wasn t even on the map really in t
conservatives but they ve said ok rank and file you get to vote on whether or not we want to go into government so the fate of and they are not as well depends on whether or not the parties francophile say yes to the grand coalition deal on march the fourth ok we ll know more in march what what about more broadly how are germans responding to this projected search for a new government but it certainly hasn t helped restore faith in minnie s traditional parties you said the s.p.d. is germany s oldest party one that is proud of its tradition etc but it is in a downward spiral one must say not only since martin shows and at this stage but definitely he hasn t helped germans only at current rates give sixteen would give sixteen percent of the vote to the s.p.d. in a sort of low for the party a historic low almost close to the a d.