{"id":11861,"date":"2025-10-20T15:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:05:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:07:56","slug":"cracks-appear-in-the-cdus-firewall-against-germanys-far-right-afd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harici.com.tr\/en\/cracks-appear-in-the-cdus-firewall-against-germanys-far-right-afd\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracks appear in the CDU&#8217;s &#8216;firewall&#8217; against Germany&#8217;s far-right AfD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three former high-ranking politicians and officials from Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s party have said it is time for conservatives to develop a new strategy for dealing with the AfD, seriously intensifying the internal debate over the &#8220;firewall&#8221; strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;firewall&#8221; (Brandmauer) means that mainstream German parties refuse to form coalitions with &#8220;radical&#8221; parties like the Alternative for Germany (AfD) at the federal and state levels or to pass laws with their help.<\/p>\n<p>Although this firewall has significant cracks at the local level, especially in the eastern states, Merz has largely adhered to this policy since taking office.<\/p>\n<p>German officials have faced harsh criticism, including from members of the Trump administration. In Munich last February, Elon Musk joined a conversation with US Vice President JD Vance and AfD leader Alice Weidel, where Vance criticized the firewall as &#8220;a tool to disenfranchise voters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0<em>Stern<\/em>\u00a0magazine last week, conservative figures <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stern.de\/politik\/brandmauer-und-cdu--wie-die-partei-an-einem-neuen-afd-kurs-arbeitet-36128994.html\">opened<\/a><\/span> a debate on the CDU\/CSU bloc&#8217;s stance toward the AfD.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The higher the firewall, the stronger the AfD becomes,&#8221; said historian and former Merz advisor Andreas R\u00f6dder. According to R\u00f6dder, conservatives should be &#8220;willing to engage in dialogue&#8221; with the AfD, provided the party agrees to certain conditions and abandons its &#8220;extremist&#8221; positions.<\/p>\n<p>Former CSU General Secretary and former Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg argues that excluding the AfD only serves to strengthen it, stating, &#8220;It is not possible to demystify through boycotting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The main argument of conservatives advocating for a rethink of the firewall strategy can be summarized as follows: allowing AfD politicians to oppose the system from the outside &#8220;without engaging in the complex compromises inherent to politics&#8221; does nothing but strengthen the party.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the conservatives&#8217; refusal to cooperate with the AfD forces the CDU\/CSU to govern with left-wing parties, providing the far-right with more material for attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is further complicated as the AfD increasingly emerges as the leading party in polls. Peter Tauber, Angela Merkel&#8217;s former general secretary, also believes that establishing a &#8220;new relationship&#8221; with the AfD is &#8220;necessary from a state policy perspective.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Stern<\/em>\u00a0notes that a previously unknown feeling has emerged within the CDU\/CSU bloc: the fear of a &#8220;split.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Berlin Science Center and Harvard University evaluated a total of 11,053 district and municipal council meetings between 2019 and 2024. The result: nearly one-fifth (19%) of AfD motions received approval from the CDU and other &#8220;democratic&#8221; parties.<\/p>\n<p>These motions concerned personnel issues, substantive proposals, and budgets. &#8220;Apparently, the AfD has long been in power in local governments as well,&#8221; comments\u00a0<em>Stern<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Two Mondays ago, Udo Witschas, the CDU district chairman in Bautzen, Saxony, caused a scandal in the district council. He was asked to comment on a photograph taken during a motorcycle trip with Karsten Hilse, an AfD district council member and Member of the Federal Parliament who is under surveillance by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Witschas had not hidden the photo; on the contrary, he had hung it in his office and shared it online. Witschas said he could not understand the excitement. According to him, Hilse was not &#8220;far-right.&#8221; In his view, there is not a single &#8220;right-wing, left-wing, or extremist&#8221; person in the district council.<\/p>\n<p>AfD politicians are naturally pleased with the conservatives&#8217; concerns. Bernd Baumann, the AfD&#8217;s parliamentary group leader, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/berlin-bulletin\/the-firewall-feud\/\">told<\/a><\/span> POLITICO Bulletin that the CDU is in a &#8220;self-inflicted existential crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, it campaigns with right-wing positions taken from the AfD. After being elected, it builds a firewall against the AfD. In coalition with the SPD, it implements the exact opposite of its election promises,&#8221; Baumann said.<\/p>\n<p>Co-chairwoman Weidel is also certain that the CDU cannot continue on this path. &#8220;The Union will no longer be able to reject us. I see a changed CDU after the short-lived Merz era as a potential partner,&#8221; Weidel told\u00a0<em>Stern<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Historian R\u00f6dder wants the CDU to finally impose &#8220;its own game&#8221; on the AfD while it still has the strength. In this context, he says the party should signal a &#8220;readiness for conditional dialogue&#8221; to the AfD.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the AfD respects the red lines and clearly distances itself from far-right positions and figures, seeking dialogue and conducting a tough debate on the matter is a valuable democratic endeavor. Strategically, it is also wiser to throw the fire of the directional debate at the AfD,&#8221; says R\u00f6dder.<\/p>\n<p>According to the historian, only in this way can the AfD be forced to decide &#8220;which direction it wants to go: extremist or democratic?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, a large part of the CDU leadership is still distancing itself from R\u00f6dder&#8217;s ideas, fearing that his theses will be the beginning of the end for the &#8220;firewall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leading Christian Democrats vehemently oppose the impression that the party is looking for a way to politically utilize a calculated right-wing majority.<\/p>\n<p>CDU deputy chairwoman Karin Prien warns, &#8220;The AfD is the exact opposite of the middle class [b\u00fcrgerlich].&#8221; Therefore, there can be no middle-class majority with the AfD.<\/p>\n<p>Kiel&#8217;s state premier, Daniel G\u00fcnther, says, &#8220;We have a clear stance against the AfD, and that will not change. Anyone who takes democratic responsibility seriously cannot do business with a party that undermines our institutions and trust in the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Friedrich Merz has also <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/rp-online.de\/politik\/deutschland\/die-cdu-und-die-afd-klare-positionierung-des-kanzlers-ist-richtig_aid-137278207\">reaffirmed<\/a><\/span> the firewall against the AfD.<\/p>\n<p>Following a closed-door CDU meeting in Berlin, Merz said that the two parties differ not in details but in &#8220;fundamental political beliefs&#8221; and suggested that the AfD wants to destroy the CDU.<\/p>\n<p><!-- notionvc: 4ce8b1ec-267e-4388-a32d-600a5e292489 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three former high-ranking politicians and officials from Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s party have said it is time for conservatives to develop a new strategy for dealing with the AfD, seriously intensifying the internal debate over the &#8220;firewall&#8221; strategy. 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