The majority of young German voters up to 24 years of age voted for extremist parties at the Bundestag election on 23rd February: 25 per cent of the votes cast by such age group went to the left party Die Linke, and 21 per cent to the Alternative for Germany party – AFD, a populist and far-right party. Lena Bloemacher, Federal President of BDKJ (the Federation of German Catholic Youth), analysed the young people’s vote in an interview with the Catholic portal katholisch.de, wondering what the Democratic Centre parties should do to be attractive to young voters again: “During the election campaign, the young felt that their prospects, their interests and their concerns were underrepresented – Bloemacher said – and were generally widely overlooked in the last few years, for instance in the management of climate change or the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic”. Therefore, “it’s not surprising they are now turning to parties” who speak directly to them. The election of AFD shows how “the increasing normalisation of far-right narratives, positions and prospects in politics, in society and in the media, as well as in young people’s environments, is certainly making it more difficult to distinguish between extremist positions”. According to Bloemacher, now it’s important to “join forces for a democratic view of society”. According to the BDKJ leader, if the Democratic Centre parties want to be attractive to young people again, they shall “listen to children, teenagers and young people, and take them and their concerns seriously”.