The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will push for a referendum on Germany’s EU membership if it ever comes to power.
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This was stated by her co-leader Alisa Weidel.
The party wants to reform the EU and limit the powers of the European Commission, but “if such reform is not possible, if we cannot restore the sovereignty of EU member states, then citizens must decide, like in the UK,” Weidel said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Monday.
Praising the UK for its exit from the EU after the 2016 plebiscite, Weidel said Germany “could hold a referendum on Dexit – Germany’s exit from the EU.”
The AfD has long been an openly anti-European force, noting in its party program that “we believe that the EU cannot be reformed and view it as a failed project.”
Despite low levels of support for the EU among party supporters, polls taken in September 2023 show that a majority of AfD voters are unlikely to vote Leave, with 52% supporting remaining in the EU.
The AfD now ranks second nationally with 23%, according to POLITICO polls, and is thriving despite a recent scandal that sparked the country’s biggest anti-far-right protests in a decade. On Sunday, January 21, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Germany.
Last week, Germany revealed that some AfD members had joined a secret meeting with neo-Nazis and other extremists to discuss “remigration,” accelerating the deportation of asylum seekers, migrants and even German citizens with migrant backgrounds who had failed to integrate. Weidel fired her employee who was present at the meeting.
Source: Racurs
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