Overview
- An AfD spokesman said concepts for a similar project are being drafted and will be presented to leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, with the outcome still undecided.
- Austria First has broadcast since January 17 with a mix of mostly pop music, news and short comments by FPÖ politicians, promoted as a patriots’ station.
- The AfD is in contact with the FPÖ initiators and has exchanged visits, including Sachsen-Anhalt candidate Ulrich Siegmund meeting advisers in Salzburg.
- Experts have flagged on-air terms such as “Globalisten” and “Finanzkontrolleure” as conspiratorial or antisemitic codewords in the German context.
- Any German rollout may face obstacles, as the AfD is classified by the domestic intelligence service as right-wing extremist and Saxony’s media council president has ruled out an AfD equivalent.