Philosopher Safranski warns: “AfD somehow integrate into the democratic spectrum and thereby civilize”

Politics argue Given the strength of the AfD About the correct handling of the right -wing extremist party, which is part of the second strongest force in the Bundestag behind the Union. The AfD came to 20.8 percent in the election and is still well above this value in current ones.

The Union faction vice Jens Spahn (CDU) Had last weekend another parliamentary handling of the AfD required And for his statements, SPD boss Lars Klingbeil was sharply criticized.

Now has itself The well -known German philosopher Rüdiger Safranski Mixed in the debate. In an interview with the “Welt am Sonntag”, he warned against excluding the AfD from the democratic discourse. Safranski wrote numerous books and won several literature pricessuch as the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair or the Literature Award of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

“The displeasure that gathers behind the AfD is not anti -democratic, but the anger and the disappointment with the failure to do with the politics. If you don’t want to banish a quarter of the voters behind a fire wall“So there will be no choice but to somehow integrate the AfD into the democratic spectrum and thereby civilize it,” said Safranski.

That will also be the case in Germany. “The so -called right -wing populists are on the rise everywhere around us. Look at Italy, where the Meloni obviously does a very good job, or to France, where you are already using the judiciary against Ms. Le Pen, which also has such an undemocratic taste. At some point you can no longer get the lid on it,” said Safranski. In addition, since Donald Trump’s comeback as US President, political color theory has changed totally.

The 80-year-old described the current political situation as schizophrenic. “The CDU had promised a change of policy. And now there is everything, just no change of policy.” He wondered how this could come about.

“The CDU would have courage to threaten with something so that the SPD understands its own fatal situation. Such pressure potential on the part of the CDU would be new elections or the threat of being tolerated by the AfD in certain political fields. For example, in migration, but not in foreign policy,” said Safranski. (lem)