- On Saturday tens of thousands of citizens demonstrated in Berlin and throughout Germany. On the eve of the general elections on 23 February, they demanded that the other parties and especially the conservative CDU party cut off all contact with the far-right AfD party.
According to the organizers, 250,000 citizens joined the demonstration and 160,000 according to the police. The uprising of the righteous. The demonstration for the Sufez was the motto of the call. The mobilization ends in front of the headquarters of the CDU party. Previously, one of the speakers at the event was the publicist Michel Friedman. Friedman has just left the CDU after the conservative party voted in parliament alongside the AfD.
CDU and AfD
General elections in Germany will take place on February 23, and polls predict good results for the far-right AfD. In this context, last week the Christian Democrats of the CDU voted with the AfD in the German Parliament in a non-binding resolution against migrants. The CDU’s decision has haunted the dust, tensions have also arisen within the party.
There have been mobilizations not only on Saturday but also on Sunday throughout Germany, not only in Berlin. New demonstrations around the CDU congress in Berlin have been announced on Monday.