Evangelical Kirchentag: Strong AfD is an “overall German problem”, says TV presenter Wellmer | EUROtoday

ARD “Daily Topics” presenter Jessy Wellmer has warned towards perceiving the AfD as an East German downside solely. “We have to see this as a German problem,” warned the moderator and documentary filmmaker from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Thursday on the thirty ninth German Evangelical Church Day in Hanover.

The proportion of votes of the AfD is twice as excessive as in western federal states. In absolute numbers, nevertheless, the AfD obtained probably the most votes from the West, defined the moderator and documentary filmmaker. Wellmer admitted that there was extra outrage in East German federal states. It stays essential to all the time take into consideration the east of Germany.

The Münster sociologist Detlev Pollack mentioned that there was an enormous distinction in East German federal states “between the feeling and objectively detectable discrimination”. East German folks usually felt deprived, though their life state of affairs had improved enormously. “It is related to increased demands,” mentioned the sociologist of faith, born in Weimar. The consciousness of getting political affect with the election of a celebration just like the AfD continues to extend in East Germany.

The former SPD member of the Bundestag Karamba Diaby from Halle an der Saale referred to as for the moods of East German. The emotions of the folks shouldn’t be simply wiped away: “Every fate is a fate,” emphasised the Diaby from Senegal. The crises wouldn’t be talked about: “You are there.”