France Stunned by the Far-Right's Victory in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt Regional Elections
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France stunned by the far-right's victory in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt regional elections
France's political parties quickly responded to Alternative for Germany's (AfD) victory on Sunday, each analyzing the results. Within the far-right Rassemblement National, the win caused considerable discomfort: it severed ties with AfD in the European Parliament in 2024 following ambiguous statements about the role of the SS during World War II.
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The cordon sanitaire has been an effective tool to keep the ultra-right away from power in Europe for at least a quarter of a century. The height of this strategy (an unwritten pact between the other parties to ban the extreme right) was reached in France in the presidential elections of 2002, when Jacques Chirac defeated Jean-Marie Le Pen, thanks to the frontal rejection of the other parties to the then-National Front. Since then, the so-called…
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