AfD in Saxony-Anhalt - What Is the "Bundeszwang"?
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In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD, a party that the competent regional office classifies as "proven extreme right-wing", could rule in the future. That is why Berlin is already considering the possibility of applying the so-called "federal coercion".
In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD could in future govern a party that regards the constitutional protection of the country as "secured extreme right". The Federal Government therefore thinks about the possibility of "Bundeszwang" (Bundeszwang).
In September, the civil-conservative Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) suffered significant defeats in several state elections. First, it lost almost 20 percentage points in Saxony-Anhalt, and the winner of the election was the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitutional Order partially classifies as “demonstrably extreme right-wing.”
Nearly 44 percent of the vote for a party that local constitutional protection agencies describe as 'a proven right-wing extremist party': this was, a little over two weeks ago, the result......
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