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German conservatives accused of normalising the far right
Original: Die Trommler der Normalisierung Jahrelang wollte die Union unbedingt glauben, man könne dem rechten Rand Stimmen abjagen
A commentary accuses Germany's Christian Democratic bloc of spending years trying to win back voters from the far right by chasing them with tougher positions, a strategy critics call 'normalisation'. The piece points to recent interventions by politicians such as Hesse's Minister-President Boris Rhein as examples of the Union drifting toward right-wing rhetoric rather than countering it.
Why now: Debate over whether the CDU/CSU's strategy of adopting hard-right positions is legitimising the far right has flared up again.
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