According to a recent study by Germany’s INSA, Germans in their thirties are the most likely to vote for the far-right nationalist party, AfD. As we read in the Telegraph:
Young Germans are among the ‘unhappiest in Europe’ as polls show a drift among Millennials to the far right.
According to a report by Unicef, young Germans ranked second from the bottom in a poll on happiness and life satisfaction.
Residents of the EU aged 16-19 and 20-24 were asked to give a score from one to 10 on their level of happiness.
Between 2021 and 2022, Germany slipped from the EU average with 7.5 to 6.6, putting it only above Bulgaria.
The figure comes as older generations lean towards the far right, with those in their 30s the most likely to consider voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far-right party.
According to a poll by Germany’s INSA institute for market research, 44 per cent of the demographic have thought about voting for the far-right party.
“There’s a reason young people might feel like voting for the AfD,” Thomas Kliche, a political psychologist at the college of Magdeburg-Stendal, told the Telegraph.
“The current politics in Germany clearly isn’t capable of solving the problems of the future. It’s sluggish, contradictory and divisive. With digitisation, younger people are experiencing the unworldliness of the current government. Young people see that and don’t feel well represented.”
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