Conservatives Win German Election, But Far-Right “Nazi-Curious” AfD Comes Second

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Conservatives Win German Election, But Far-Right “Nazi-Curious” AfD Comes Second

Friedrich Merz is poised to become the next German chancellor after his conservative Christian Democratic Union placed first in Sunday’s key election. Social scientist David Bebnowski, speaking from Berlin, tells Democracy Now! that Merz is likely to join with the diminished SPD of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz for another “grand coalition” of establishment parties, which has ruled Germany for much of the last couple decades. He also comments o