Mnementh said:
I don't quite agree with your left-right scheme in comparison to AfD and CDU. For instance the FDP is disagreeing with surveillance (as this is restricting freedom), which could be seen as more left. But more consequently it is more liberal (in the sense of freedom). In other questions they also prefer more freedom, so for instance the root for less restrictions for companies, while the CDu prefers some more rules for social security. In this case you could see the FDP as right of the CDU, but again it is about more freedom. |
Of course reducing things to a one-dimensional left/right scheme is oversimplification, but ultimately that's still the common dimension to classify parties (usually the only one).
When it comes to the somewhat established german parties, the AfD is considered to be the far-right end of the spectrum - and the FDP is the party that is ideologically closest to the AfD. (If you don't believe that, just make the Wahl-O-Mat test, always answer with the original AfD answer, and look which party has the highest accordance: it's the FDP, followed by CDU).
