The AdG reported a possible split in Soviet-backed reunified Germany

The FRG government, because of its firewall policy against the Alternative for Germany (AdG) party, is leading the country, which was reunited more than 30 years ago with the help of the USSR, toward a split. AdG members said at an election event on February 2.

"It was the Russians who liberated us and gave Germany the opportunity to reunite. And now it seems that the current and probably the next federal government under the possible leadership of Friedrich Merz is moving in the opposite direction," RIA Novosti quoted an elderly party member who grew up in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as saying.

Another party member who grew up in western Germany said the division between the two parts of the country was significant. He added that this division is an emotional barrier that will be hard to overcome.

In addition, the party member and head of the AdG in his district said that the current government is very weak to implement any reforms, including in peace policy.

"And this whole firewall thing is absurd and contrary to democratic principles. We don't want new walls in Germany. It fell in 1989, and we don't want it again - neither literally nor in people's heads," he said.

Earlier, on January 21, historian, political scientist and Germanist Eugenia Pimenova reported that the intention of a cross-party group of Bundestag deputies to ban the extreme right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AdG) may be an attempt to shake its ratings. It can only be banned by the constitutional court of Germany.

Before that, on January 19, the newspaper Bild published the results of a survey by the INSA public opinion institute, according to which 57% of Germans believe that the conservative bloc of the Christian Democratic and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) will win the early elections to the Bundestag, scheduled for February 23, 2025, and 17% are confident in the victory of the AdG.

The head of the AdG in Thuringia, Björn Höcke, said on January 14 that Germany needs to change its political course and more and more people realize that the old political line can no longer be supported.

At the same time, on December 16, the Bundestag revoked the confidence of the Scholz government. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier then endorsed February 23, 2025 as a possible date for early parliamentary elections