Political landscape faces upheaval as far-right AfD and left-conservative BSW expected to perform strongly
An electoral poster for Alternative für Deutschland stating ‘Summer, Sun, Remigration’ in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia state which is holding elections on Sunday.An electoral poster for Alternative für Deutschland stating ‘Summer, Sun, Remigration’ in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia state which is holding elections on Sunday.
None of the mainstream parties has ruled out working with the BSW, while Wagenknecht has revelled in the lip service many of the candidates are now paying to many of her once taboo views, such as calls for Ukraine to hold immediate peace talks with Russia. The chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and his centre-left-led coalition were already on the ropes with their dismal popularity ratings nationwide, bitter public infighting and catastrophic polling in the eastern states.
By Sunday Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the party, which is now polling at about 17% nationally, was calling for a “five-year stop to the entrance, registration and naturalisation of migrants”.stricter laws on carrying knives in public, swifter deportations of rejected asylum seekers and tighter controls on “irregular” migration, but only in accordance with international law.
Petra Neumann, 68, of the pressure group Grandmothers Against the Right, helped lead a boisterous counter-demonstration against Höcke, along with young activists.She said she remembered her grandfather waking up in the night screaming when she was a child.
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