Why are German young people so easily seduced by AfD's ideas?

euronews (in English)

Recent voter surveys say between 14% and 22% of under-30s would vote for the far-right Alternative for Germany party in the upcoming European elections. But who are these potential voters?

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00:00We are at an AFD European election campaign event in Berlin.

00:05The crowd, which we were not allowed to film, is made up of pensioners and young people.

00:10Candidate Mary Kahn Hollock is 30 years old and speaks about making Germans proud again to be German.

00:16But what makes the AFD so attractive to under 30 year olds?

00:20I think that this age group is the victims of the politics of the last years.

00:28Whether it was during the Merkel era, when the borders were opened,

00:33because of this an incredible amount of foreign criminality arose.

00:38But also, that in schools and in big cities,

00:42you sometimes have the problem, that there are schools,

00:45where they don't speak German anymore.

00:48Recent voter surveys say between 14 and 22 percent of under 30s would vote for AFD.

00:53We asked a 26 year old at the AFD event, why he would vote for them.

00:58I think that the AFD is the only party in Germany,

01:02which is committed to the fact, that our generation in Europe, in Germany, still has a viable future.

01:09I mean, if you look at the society, if you go through our inner cities,

01:13especially in the big cities, then you can see how the society,

01:16how the social image is changing.

01:18And I also think, that many young people just have their noses full.

01:22And to put this in perspective, Professor Dr. Bauer says,

01:25that empathy is declining in young people.

01:28More than half of young people feel psychologically burdened.

01:31A quarter of young people feel very lonely.

01:34A quarter of young people.

01:36And the radical parties like the AFD,

01:41try to give very simple answers to these needs that young people have.

01:46They try to reduce the many problems that we have,

01:49and the many answers that we actually need, to a few things.

01:53For example, to the problem of the integration of migrants and refugees.

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