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April 14th, 2013 
Peter Nolan
Organisers had to open a second room to squeeze in more than 1,500 supporters
who had come from across the country to adopt the party programme and vote
for a party board.
For all the talk about what they don’t like, however, the party has been short
on what they do like and its leaders were slammed in an editorial this week
in the top-selling Bild newspaper as “political amateurs.”
The conservative tabloid has never shied away from accusing southern Europeans
of being lazy, nor has it stopped deploring the cost Germany shoulders to
bail out other nations, but turning against the euro itself remains
unthinkable.
Experts believe the party has little chance of garnering enough of the protest
vote to reach the 5 percent threshold. But it could draw enough voters away
from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right coalition to force her into an
alliance with the opposition or give the opposition an outright majority.
The party appears to be garnering support from across the political spectrum
as well.
“A smaller part of Germans are against the Euro and want to leave the
Euro. These people are coming from different political directions, left and
right. During the election campaign this new party will make clear that they
are not from the left site but more of a conservative party. Therefore they
will win voters who formally voted for the CDU and FDP,” said Oskar
Niedermayer, a political scientist at Berlin’s Free University.
Source: APTN
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