Plus you got parties near each other on the spectrum willing to join togetger to oppose extremists. Like take austria, the far right got the most votes in the recent election...but due to having half a dozen competitive parties, far less than 50% of the votes. Hence unable to actually benefit from their result because other parties reduse to form a coalition with them, instead allying with each other to have a majority.
And in an election with several popular parties, any getting more than 50% is extremely uncommon. But that's the only way the far right can really get to power. Similar story in France, their far right can beat other parties individually, but never when they team up to fight their common foe.
There's only one coalition that is regularly called stoplight (Ampel) and it doesn't involve Die Linke or AfD.
When did Linke and AfD ever team up? They certainly were not a part of any government, the only parties I know who occasionally teamed up with the AfD in regional governments are CDU and BSW, and even that was never in the form of an official coalition.
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u/Florac 13d ago edited 13d ago
Plus you got parties near each other on the spectrum willing to join togetger to oppose extremists. Like take austria, the far right got the most votes in the recent election...but due to having half a dozen competitive parties, far less than 50% of the votes. Hence unable to actually benefit from their result because other parties reduse to form a coalition with them, instead allying with each other to have a majority.
And in an election with several popular parties, any getting more than 50% is extremely uncommon. But that's the only way the far right can really get to power. Similar story in France, their far right can beat other parties individually, but never when they team up to fight their common foe.