AfD Gains Test Germany’s Political Centre, Europe’s Right
- In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD won 43.8% of the vote earlier this month, falling just three seats short of an outright majority in a historic electoral gain.
- France's National Rally , once the AfD's closest partner, rejected renewed cooperation citing extremist factions within the German party that it has not purged.
- RN lawmaker Franck Allisio told LCI on September 6, "We do not consider them to be our allies in Germany," while Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called policy differences on Ukraine and Russia "irreconcilable."
- President Donald Trump and Elon Musk congratulated the AfD on its landslide victory, yet Grégoire Roos of Chatham House warned the party's "strong association with Trump and the MAGA movement" is unpopular across Europe.
- While Viktor Orbán of Hungary's Fidesz and Geert Wilders of the Netherlands' Party for Freedom offered congratulations, the AfD's rising strength presents far-right parties a difficult choice: embrace it or risk political isolation.
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The great European reset has begun. Sovereignist or extreme-right parties are gaining ground in more and more countries. Some have already come to power. Others have won elections. And in key countries of the European Union, polls place them in the lead. The most recent example comes from Germany, where the far right AfD party has won the last regional elections and thus dethroned Chancellor Friedrich Merz' party. The historical influence of sov…
The ultra-right Alternative Party for Germany (AfD) faces scrutiny of the suitability of some of its potential new deputies, including a former Stasi officer – the secret police of the former German Democratic Republic (DRA) – and a former pornographic actor, a few days after his historic victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, reported The Guardian.
The rise of Alternative for Germany (AfD) is causing widespread alarm, even in unexpected areas: other far-right European parties.
Germany’s AfD is so extreme they are putting off other far-right parties
By Sophie Tanno, Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — The rise of Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) is causing widespread alarm, including in unexpected quarters – other far-right European parties. While the German party is winning record levels of support at home, some of its closest ideological allies elsewhere in Europe are keeping it at arm’s
The rise of the German Alternative Party for Germany (AfD) causes wide-scale alarm, including in unexpected camps, such as other European extreme right-wing formations, reports CNN. AfD is...
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