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Politico (5 June 2024)

By STEPHAN FARIS, JAMES ANGELOS, HANNE COKELAERE, BARBARA MOENS and VICTOR GOURY-LAFFONT

The far-right politician Oliver Kirchner offered his party’s supporters an unexpected hot tip on the next big trend: “Invest in diapers.” 

His logic? The rise of his far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) had so shocked the “old parties,” he explained, that the establishment was now soiling its pants. 

Ditching the puerile humor, Kirchner, one of the AfD’s state representatives, then hardened his tone at a Q&A session with the party faithful in the eastern city of Magdeburg last month. It was, he went on, time to boot out the traditional parties and give them their comeuppance “for what they’ve done to this country, what they’ve done to the citizens and what they’ve done to the Volk.”

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