Politicians across Germany’s political spectrum have condemned the leader of the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party after she was reported to have compared societies including migrants to compost heaps. Pouring scorn on the idea that migrants made societies more diverse, she said: “What should we make of the campaign ‘Germany is colourful’? Frauke Petry: the acceptable face of Germany’s new right? The AfD was created in 2013 as an anti-euro party but Petry ousted the AfD’s founder and shifted the party to the right, playing to fears about migration. Most of Merkel’s conservative CDU party rule out the possibility of forming an alliance with the AfD.

Source: The Guardian October 06, 2016 14:15 UTC