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“A socio-political earthquake”, “a turning point for Germany”. This is how political analysts and many media outlets have described the surprising victory of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Sunday’s regional elections. But is this description an exaggeration? Saxony-Anhalt is one of Germany’s 16 states and has only around 1.7 million voters, out of around 59 million nationwide. So how important can the state’s politic…
In the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won the elections but failed to secure an absolute majority. Meanwhile, Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party saw its support plummet to half of what it had in the previous elections. SwissInfo explains some of the reasons why eastern Germany has become a stronghold of the far right. For its part, Bild describes the day as…
A vote in eastern Germany gives a new boost to extreme right-wing parties hoping to win elections across Europe next year, analysts say. When an extreme right-wing party won a landslide victory in a small eastern German state on Sunday, its repercussions could be felt from Downing [...]
The European far right largely welcomed the victory of the Alternative for Germany. But congratulations did not rain down from everywhere. The AfD's victory was welcomed by the Maga movement and the Kremlin.
AfD's victory in Saxony-Anhalt "is something more, unfortunately, than a message. But in the face of this huge novelty from Germany, I believe that
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