The Far-Right AfD Just Won Big in Germany but Most Indian Migrants Think They’re Safe. Are They?
The far-right party won 44% of the vote and is exploring coalition options after falling three seats short of a majority.
- On September 6, the AfD won the state election in Saxony-Anhalt with 44 percent of the vote, marking the far-right party's strongest result in any German state.
- Turnout reached 78 percent, a significant increase from 60.3 percent in 2021, while the AfD has garnered considerable attention since its April 2013 establishment, initially focused on opposing the euro and European integration.
- Despite the large plurality, the party remains three seats short of a majority in the state parliament. Officials are reportedly exploring coalitions with the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance or individual members of the Christian Democratic Union.
- This result contrasts with Germany's established democracy and effective diplomatic leadership under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who remains integrated into global institutions and multilateral cooperation frameworks.
- Modern diplomacy remains anchored in the Kensington Treaty, signed on July 17 last year by Merz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, deepening cooperation in defense and trade matters.
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The election in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday was not only a historic breakthrough for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), but also a painful reckoning for more than three decades of German unification. In a report for POLITICO, Anne McElvoy traces how economic backwardness, demographic decline, distrust of the political elite and a sense of lost East German identity are fueling the AfD's rise and could lead to the first f…
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On 6 September, the far-right AfD party won the regional election of Saxony-Anhalt, a historic election: never since 1945 had an extreme-right party come to the top of a German regional election.
The Federal Republic is coming to an end. A new Germany is beginning. Rachsucht and discord determine what is happening. What we need now is a concept that does not translate to the left and right with good and evil: the Republic.
ONE CYR'S VIEW: Significance of the far-right election win in Germany
The extreme right-wing political party Alternative for Germany, or AfD for short, has just proved victorious in a state election. The victory was on September 6, in the election in Saxony-Anhalt, a small state in eastern Germany. The party won…
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