Commentary: Austria shows what Germany risks with the AfD in power
Alice Weidel met with FPÖ politicians in Vienna. With right-wing populists who are in power. Their history is above all a powerful warning to the German centre.
Alice Weidel, leader of the German far-right party AfD, recently met with politicians from the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) in Vienna. The FPÖ has experience in governing, with the party currently in power in five of Austria's nine states and in a coalition with the conservative ÖVP at the federal level. Weidel's meeting with the FPÖ comes as the AfD is on the verge of potentially forming a government in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
In Austria, right-wing parties have been in power for decades, a scenario that is considered a taboo in Germany.
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