peter boehringer in munich, welcome to hardtalk. good afternoon, stephen. good to hear you again. well, it s great to have you on the show. and i dare say you are delighted to look at german national opinion polls which put your afd party at 20% plus in terms of public support. but you know as well as i do that federal elections don t come until 2025. how sure are you that you and the party can keep this level of support up? well, you can never be 100% sure here, especially mid term. the opposition usually is better off because at the end of the terms, the coalition parties, the government do things that please the people, so that might be difficult. and in afd s case, they usually do a lot of things defaming us. so we re expecting something. on the other hand, well, if they continue governing like this, we shouldn t go down in the polls. the problem is it looks like it s mostly a negative vote. germans, according to the polls, are deeply dissatisfied both with the state of t
To the right of the conservative mainstream are gaining ground across europe. perhaps most significant, and to many europeans, most alarming, is the rise of the md alternative for deutschland in germany. they re running second in national polls and winning local elections. my guest is peter boehringer, vice chairman of the md. is his party stirring sentiments that threaten german stability?