Alexander Gauland
Politics
AfD Kompakt, March 4, 2019
[Alexander Gauland is a national chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland
as well as a chairman of the AfD delegation in the German Bundestag. He here
responds to recent public statements by Volkswagen executive Hiltrud Werner
referring to the AfD’s relative popularity amongst working people in eastern
Germany as being a “problem”.]
…Frau Werner
errs. The high approval of the AfD among employees is not a problem for eastern
Germany but a great opportunity for urgently required political renewal. The VW
manager’s statements show that we in the AfD Bundestag delegation are relevant
for a great many and the other national parties accordingly are evidently doing
much that is wrong.
Instead of
allowing herself to be hitched to the political cart of the old parties, Frau
Werner should preferably rejoice that so many employees, disillusioned with the
politics of the old parties, are turning to the AfD. That will prevent the
regression of these frustrated voters back into the camp of the non-voters.
That makes clear how enlivening for democracy is the AfD.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
[Translated by Todd Martin]
