Germany's 'firewall' against the AFD on verge of collapse
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Only the paria status of the AfD has enabled her to give herself a distinctive profile. Now she wins elections.
Germany's 'firewall' against the AFD on verge of collapse
For more than a decade, other parties cooperated to keep the far right out of power. That strategy may have backfired. The first brick to fall in Germany's so-called firewall against the far right was this town of some 9,000 people in the small eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. On July 2, 2023, a farmer named Hannes Loth won a mayoral runoff here with 51 percent of the vote, becoming the country's first full-time, salaried officeholder from…
In the end, it doesn't really matter that the AfD failed to form a single-party government in Saxony-Anhalt. The main result of the weekend's elections is the failure of the "firewall" policy, which was supposed to keep the despised party in total isolation. It was a strategy based on the assumption that it would eventually decline on its own. The exact opposite happened.
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