2024-01-12 22:50:05
In view of growing discontent in the country, Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) called on all democratic parties to to stand together against populism and right-wing radicalism.
“We together must not allow this democracy to falter,” he said in an emotional speech on Friday evening in front of around 800 guests at the Green Party’s New Year’s reception in the Hamburg town hall. “We must finally open our eyes to recognize that the attack that the AfD and the people to the right of the AfD are waging is not an attack on individual issues. It is an attack on the very essence of this republic.”
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Citizens’ fears of loss in material and cultural terms would give rise to populists and right-wing radicals in changing times. These further fueled fears by exaggerating problems and portraying them as if they were no longer socially solvable. “The good thing is that what drives people into the arms of the populists can be changed,” said Habeck. “If populism and right-wing radicalism make the insolvability of problems their essence, then we have to solve them!”
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