“Fear is part of the reason people vote for us,” Alexander Wolf, State Parliamentarian and Chairman of the Committee for European and International Affairs in the AfD in Hamburg, told The Hindu. Above all, its manifesto pitches a reclaiming of nationalism with its opening slogan, Mut Zu Deutschland: Courage to stand up for Germany. Since 2013, the AfD has sent seven members to the European Parliament, entered 13 of 16 German State Parliaments, and is widely expected to enter the Bundestag, or German Parliament, this year. Long before “fake news”, “newstraders” and “presstitutes”, Germany’s Nazi party used “Lugenpresse” or Lying press, to characterise Jewish and Communist journalists. “Most journalists tend to be left wing and therefore portray right-wing movements in a negative light,” said Dr. Wolf.

Source: The Hindu July 01, 2017 14:03 UTC