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Can we gets some thoughts on this, as an outsider I have no idea what this means for the political impacts this might have. Is this good or bad? I would say that the far-right doubling in votes doesnt seem like a good thing. Is the cdu and csu going to combat those far-right views or promote them?
The AfD had been polling at around 20% for a while. While this is ominous, them not having exceeded their expectations, despite Russia, China and Elon Musk pushing them hard is somewhat of a relief. If the BSW (former hard-leftists now making common cause with the far right, and also strongly Putinist) fall under the threshold because of voters going back to Die Linke (old-school hard-leftists who are not explicitly Putinist), and the Greens don’t collapse, those are also encouraging.
Germany’s looking to have a right-of-centre government, though they have ruled out going into coalition with the AfD, so what’s likely is probably a grand coalition (Großkoalition, or GroKo) bringing in other parties. The SPD as junior partner to the CDU would be unusual, and any left-of-centre parties supporting a right-wing government would risk alienating their supporters, so a CDU-led GroKo would be somewhat constrained in its decision-making. The other option would be a Swedish-style deal where the AfD are not officially in the government but provide support and have a say on policy, though Germany isn’t Sweden, and the far right are probably too toxic to countenance such an arrangement.
SPD has all but officially confirmed their willingness to negotiate a coalition. There FPD won't have enough votes, if any. And the greens are too far apart.
In the past CDU/CSU never managed to combat far-right views, just like any other conservative party/movement never managed to catch and mitigate far-right positions.
Yup. That's because most "moderate" conservatives fundamentally agree with far right positions, or at most don't disagree with them even though they might not be enthusiastic supporters
Outsider as well but it’s definitely bad. Will wait for others to provide more detail.
Here to have a more big picture https://archive.is/2025.02.22-145537/https://www.ft.com/content/6a6d45c1-b259-4976-98f6-8ea8347f832b