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.