Germany’s AfD Sets Sights on Nationwide Surge Following Saxony-Anhalt Triumph
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The ultra-right is growing more in the territories of the former GDR backed by those who vote for the first time and by former abstentionists.
After the election victory of the AfD, the formation of government in Saxony-Anhalt is difficult. The focus is on the elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – and on the federal government.
The victory of the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt has evidenced the weight of the legacy of the former GDR among the citizens of East Germany, its conversion into second-class Germans and the strength of that nostalgia when it comes to taking votes. For more than forty years, more than a half of it...
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Germans took to the streets in more than 35 cities on Saturday. Demonstrations were sparked by the AfD's victory in Saxony-Anhalt.
Tens of thousands of people went out to protest this September 12 in Germany’s major cities to reject AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt last week and urge that it be prevented from forming a government. Why the rise of a movement that generates so much resistance? To “system errors,” as Putin accused, or to economic problems and immigration policy, according to party slogans?
Demonstrations in German cities after election victory of the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt
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