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Germany's far-right AfD hits 25% in poll, just behind conservatives | dpa international
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Doesn't matter. Just another 5-10% missing for a possible goverment coalition on top of the far right also do their part in preventing stable, working governments.
See (fitting the topic) Germany's new, russophile BSW (fortunately fallen below 5% on the federal level but obstructing constructive government building in several states).
Also there is a lot in most parliamentary systems that requires 2/3 majorities (like appointing new judges for example) which is not a problem in a working democracy when nobody actually disagrees on certain neccessary things but becomes highly problematic once far-right and far-feft, both paid to work against the country, reach 33% together.
Seriously... you might pretend that the talk about far-right and far-left sponsored by Russia is just some both-sides rhetoric but Russia indeed doesn't care as long as it's weakening democratic governments.
PS: Also left parties supporting Russia don't need to be on the rise. On the contrary a left party peddling Kremlin narratives is helping to push politics to the right because sane people now have to chose between voting center (so more right than they actually like to) or supporting Russia... Again: let's take Germany as an example, where the Left showed a lot of growth and then hit a wall. Because their "we 'support' Ukraine but then are against all weapon deliveries and insist that talking to Russia and China is the only solution"-bullshit disqualifies them for most.
don't confuse far-right witrh right extremist, the afd was far-right 10 years ago, now they go further. The CDU/CSU is now far-right where the AfD was 10 years ago
on the other side we have Die Linke, which has adopted mostly SPD posiitions (what some years ago was called middle left)
Germany is a stellar example for the overton window moving to the right, i would argue that we don't have any left-extremists parties anymore and hardly far-left ones. the only one getting over 5% is decidedly left, but doesn't go further.