Thousands Protest in Germany Ahead of AfD Conference
Police estimated 15,000 protesters blocked roads as the far-right party opened its conference amid regional election gains and calls for a ban.
- On Saturday, thousands of opponents blocked roads to the AfD's annual conference in Erfurt, with police deploying reinforcements across the eastern city ahead of regional elections.
- Opponents accuse the AfD of promoting racist policies and threatening Germany's constitutional order, while co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla seek victories in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
- Police estimated around 15,000 people joined the demonstrations, as recent polls put AfD support at 29% compared with around 22% for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU conservatives.
- Mainstream parties maintain a "Firewall" strategy to isolate the AfD from coalition governments; Georg Becker, spokesperson for Widersetzen, said, "We want to make it clear that we simply won't tolerate this."
- In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD holds 41% support against 23% for the Christian Democrats, while leaders recently won a court injunction suspending their domestic intelligence classification as "Extremist.
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Thousands of anti-fascist protesters gathered in Erfurt on Saturday, in eastern Germany, blocking the main roads and disrupting public transport, in order to cancel the annual congress of the far right AfD party.
Thuringian police had prepared for the participation of between 35,000 and 50,000 demonstrators in the protests and had warned internally of the possible presence of up to 2,500 left-wing extremists willing to resort to violence
Thousands of demonstrators flooded the German city on Saturday, blocking major roads and disrupting public transport.
Despite attempts to block access roads, participants failed to prevent the arrival of the 600 delegates of the ultra Björn Höcke formation, the most radical leader of AfD who moves the threads of the ultra-right in Germany Some 31,000 protesters protest this Saturday in the German city of Erfurt, in the Länder of Thuringia, in the east of the country, against the congress of the ultra-right Alternative Party for Germany (AfD) with sit-ins, block…
There were several road and motorway blockades, with the participation of thousands of demonstrators, to try to prevent the arrival of the AfD delegates to the venue where the congress is taking place.
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