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Summary
Around 160,000 people protested in Berlin against cooperation with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) after some parties, including the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), voted alongside them on immigration policies.
CDU leader Friedrich Merz, a frontrunner for chancellor, faced backlash for attempting to pass an immigration bill with AfD’s support, despite ruling out a coalition.
The protests, part of nationwide demonstrations ahead of Germany’s snap elections, highlight fears over normalizing far-right influence in politics.
Former Chancellor Angela Merkel also condemned Merz’s actions.
Can we start a metric for measuring a protest size relative to its country population?
Then get some benchmarks from historical protests? Ex: famous civil rights protest had 0.8% population turnout.
Then you could say more objecively if a modern protest represents a historical turnout…
Germany’s population is around 83 million, Berlin would be around 3.5 million. So 160k is a lot (4.5% of Berlin’s citizens).
Further reference: the largest demo in Berlin was the protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and counted around 500,000 participants.
See that’s useful information thank you
The protests in Berlin are not the only ones. According to rather conservative police estimates since beginning of this year around 870.000 people throughout Germany protested against the right shift/Afd and that would be around 1% of the whole population of the country.
Volksverpetzer is a german online medium that deals with fact checks and criticism of disinformation, especially from right wing circles.
If you’re trying to find out, for all practical purposes the US doesn’t protest. They just bitch online.