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Has Germany’s ‘firewall’ against the far right been breached by AfD success?

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Paul Kirby & Kristina Volk

BBC News in Berlin

grey placeholderGetty Images AfD leaders stand in front of the cameras, with Alice Weidel their co-leader in the centreGetty Images

AfD leaders, including Alice Weidel (C) and Tino Chrupalla (to her R) gathered on Tuesday for their first post-election meeting

One in five Germans put an X in the box for Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday: a record result that has made them the second biggest force in German politics.

Riding on the back of that success, the party is now calling for an end to the consensus in German politics not to work with the far right.

That “firewall” – Brandmauer in German – has worked since the end of World War Two, but AfD joint leader Tino…



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