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Germany goes to the polls on Sunday and there are fears the Alternative for Deutschland , a political party partly designated as far-right extremists, could win nearly a quarter of the national vote.
KARLSRUHE/BERLIN Germany (Reuters) -Germany can cut off public funding to the radical right-wing party Die Heimat, the Constitutional Court said on Tuesday in a landmark ruling which stirred up a ...
Germany’s far right has won the most votes in a state election for the first time since the Nazi era, in a major rebuke of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling center-left coalition.
The Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by challenger Friedrich Merz, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) led by challenger Alice Weidel, and the Alliance 90/The Greens led by candidate Robert Habeck are all expected to obtain a voting volume that is significantly higher than the ...
The AfD increased its vote share in all states and became the largest party in all five former East German states; [308] [309] according to the exit polls, it was the second most-voted party in the 18-29 age bracket (21%), behind only the Linke, [310] [311] and the most voted party among voters aged between 30 and 44 (26%). [311]
The party was founded in 1964 as successor to the German Reich Party (German: Deutsche Reichspartei, DRP). Party statements also self-identified the party as Germany's "only significant patriotic force" (2012). [16] On 1 January 2011, the nationalist German People's Union merged with the NPD and the party name of the National Democratic Party ...
(Reuters) - Voters in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, go to the polls on Feb. 23 in what marks the first elections since Berlin severed its ties with Russia, its decades-long gas supplier.
With 25.7% of total votes, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) recorded their best result since 2005, and emerged as the largest party for the first time since 2002. The ruling CDU/CSU , which had led a grand coalition with the SPD since 2013 , recorded their worst ever result with 24.1%, a significant decline from 32.9% in 2017 .