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Meet the Smiling Face of Germany’s Far Right

June 23, 2016 By Debbie Young

Germany’s far right wing populist political party is the AfD—Alterative für Deutschland, which was founded in 2012. The AfD’s unlikely leader is Frauke Petry, a research chemist and entrepreneur who only entered politics in 2013. At 41, she is the mother of four.

Ms. Petry deflects criticism of the AfD—that its very existence raises questions “as to whether Germany has truly learned the lessons of WWII and the Nazi dictatorship,” (according to Der Spiegel) by arguing that the party simply mirrors the failures of Angela Merkel.

“AfD is a child of Merkel’s politics,” she says, “That is what describes us best. We are here because Merkel’s government failed to deal with important topics of society in Germany and Europe.”

Ms. Petry walks a familiar tightrope for all far-right parties in Europe. The dilemma is to find a policy platform that satisfies supporters’ anger at what they consider their disenfranchised position yet keep the party “respectable enough to form a coalition with more centrist parties.”

Read more from The Telegraph about Frauke Petry and the far-right AfD here.

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Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
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