The far-right party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) is now trying to gain voters as well with an immigrant background. To achieve this he “recruits”… immigrants, who support the party. In its columns, the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung talks about “Immigrants of an anti-immigration party” – among whom there is a Greek (who nevertheless identifies himself as German), the Robert Lambrou, head of the AfD in the Hessian Parliament. As the publication states, “Lamprou founded in June together with a few others an association, which bears the name “With an immigrant background, in favor of Germany”. The idea for the establishment of the association came to him during a visit of a group of young people to the Parliament of You.”

Speaking to these young people, the Frankfurt newspaper reports, Lambrou stressed that “there are ‘some immigrants’ in the AfD. Lambrou is one of them. He is German, but as he says, his father is Greek. Lambrou he does not use his first name, Athanasios, but he is running as the party’s leading candidate in October’s state election in Hesse under his middle name, Robert. According to a poll by the Forschungsgruppe Wahlen Institute, the AfD in Hesse gathers a percentage of 15%, while nationwide it reaches 20%”, the publication points out.

Although Lambrou seems to state that the establishment of the association “With an immigrant background in favor of Germany”, in which he has assumed the role of president, does not play a role in the election campaign, Kai Arzheimer, a political scientist at the University of Mainz in a discussion with editor of the publication expresses an opposite opinion, comparing it to the establishment of a similar association, which was also founded in the state of Hesse years ago under the name “Jews in AfD” – aiming to change the party’s anti-Semitic reputation.