PREVIEW. HEADLINE: Populist AfD Triples Vote in German State Election Amidst Anti-Migration Sentiment GUEST AND TITLE: John Batchelor, Host; Judy Dempsey, Colleague for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace SUMMARY: John Batchelor and Judy Demp
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
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GUEST AND TITLE: John Batchelor, Host; Judy Dempsey, Colleague for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
SUMMARY: John Batchelor and Judy Dempsey discuss the critical German state election in North Rhine-Westphalia, where the populist AfD party tripled its vote, sparking national trend concerns. Dempsey explains that anti-immigration is a "big big issue" for AfD supporters. She notes the large, integrated Turkish population, brought in the 1950s-60s to aid Germany's economic miracle, is disliked by the AfD, leading to attacks on immigrant communities. This electoral shift highlights growing societal divisions driven by migration.
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| 0:23.1 | Judy Dempsey in Berlin for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about a German state |
| 0:28.5 | election very critical in these last days. North Rhine-West failure, the most populous of German states, |
| 0:34.4 | and not in the east where AFD, the protest party, has been strong, but in the West, |
| 0:40.7 | dominated by laborer and manufacturing, North Rhine West failure. Why did it switch in some fashion |
| 0:49.4 | tripling the vote for AFD? Is this a national trend? Judy speaks to all that and also the major issue |
| 0:55.9 | of migration now and in the past. Is Judy to explain North Rhine-Westphalia and the excitement |
| 1:04.4 | in Germany about the switch towards a populist party that speaks against migrants. |
| 1:12.4 | Much more of this, than I. |
| 1:20.6 | They are living there, but, I mean, there's a huge population of integrated Turks who came in the late 1950s to help Germany deal with the economic miracle, they were brought over by, by, from Turkey, |
| 1:31.3 | in the belief that they might go home, well, they stayed here, and but they are not liked by the AFDA. |
| 1:38.3 | And there's been attacks on the Turkish communities and on immigration communities in North Ryan, Risfarland. |
| 1:45.0 | And when I used to work in the former capital Bonn, there was a horrible attack on a Turkish house in Solingen, |
| 1:55.1 | in the early 1990s. |
| 1:59.5 | It's anti-immigration is a pet topic of AFD supporters, |
| 2:05.2 | and it's a big, big issue. |
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