A mass demonstration, 80,000 participants according to the Police and 250,000 according to the organizers, marched this Sunday from the Bundestag, the headquarters of the German Parliament, to the Konrad Adenauer house, the central of the Cristianodemocrata Union (CDU), which last Wednesday formed a … Parliamentary majority with the extreme right of alternative for Germany (AFD) aimed at hardening immigration policy, with rejection of entries at the most agile borders and deportations.
Although these were non -binding motions, the fact that for the first time has been voted in the extreme right in the Reichstag has raised a wave of protests in which this demonstration was framed, under the slogan “lifting of the decent” . «We have promised ourselves that this country is built on the fact that Human dignity is inviolable«, Proclaimed before the protesters Michael Friedman, a prominent member of the CDU who has abandoned the party in protest of his current leader, Freyrich Merz. The “Hate Party,” said AFD without citing it, “propagates an intellectual fire that is pure violence.”
Another speeches was carried out by the former president of the Evangelical Church, Heinrich Bedford-Strohm. “We believe that democracy is not only an electoral process, but a vision in whose center is human dignity,” he said, “I am ashamed that people who have come from other places no longer feel comfortable, or be afraid. No common cause is made with those who trample human dignity! «. “The conservatives are slipping and putting themselves in the hands of the right -wing radicals,” said Luisa Neubauer, leader of Fridys for Futureen Germany, “this is a deep crisis of democracy and this demonstration only the beginning, we will go out into the street We will make this a permanent problem for Friedrich Merz ». “I have come with my children to convey that there is no excuse or justification that excuses complicity with the extreme right,” said Hermann, professor of high school history, “and I have encouraged the parents of my students to do the same: I I explain how Nazism rose to power in the 30s, well: here you can see it with their own eyes ».
Tense calm on the streets
Hours before the demonstration, Merz ruled out once again and equally categorically as the previous ones that will not lead a government in which AFD participates. “I have said it very clearly: there will be no cooperation between us and AFD, we are fighting for political majorities in the broad center of our democratic spectrum.” Together with these statements, he asked the protesters to proceed peacefully, after offices of the CDU they have been victims of attacks last week in different parts of the country.
The concentration passed calmly and under surveillance of 500 police officers. At the head of the march, the Board of Directors of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which hopes to get electoral revenue from the protests. The truth is that the only survey conducted after the convulsive parliamentary votes, notes that the CDU does not flinch, in 30%, while AFD (22%) and SPD (17%) gain a percentage point compared to the week former. “This goes far beyond surveys and elections,” said a retiree whose banner read “There is no space in Germany for the extreme right”, “what it is about is that here we will not allow a Trumpization of the country ».
Although the spontaneity and independence of many of the protesters was indisputable, the organizer was Campact, a “campaign organization with which more than 3 million people defend progressive political and our democracy,” according to their own definition. Founded in 2004 and initially oriented towards the American online platform Moveon, as a registered association, it has more than eighty employees and has received millionaire donations from the European Climate Foundation, the Gekko Foundation, the Hans Böcker Foundation and the Bewegungsstiftung Foundation.
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