Mainstream politicians express alarm while lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes congratulations from Elon Musk

Mainstream politicians around Europe have expressed alarm after the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) swept to a historic state election victory in Germany, while nationalist figures cheered the result as a mandate for change.

While falling just short of an absolute majority, the AfD surged into first place in the Saxony-Anhalt state election on Sunday, exit polls ⁠showed, putting the far right within reach ​of power at ‌the state level for ‌the first time since the second world war.

  • Miaou@jlai.lu
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    4 hours ago

    But you also don’t have any left at all, which doesn’t help.

    Even fucking bsw has a point when calling die linke just another socdem party. And neither of these party is even doing well in the urns.

    From a French PoV, German politics are really cooked. Overton window is more right wing than us, and the votes are also more concentrated to the right.

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      2 hours ago

      BSW should figure out who they even are before they sling any shit. They are putins Nazicommunist party and you need to mentally unwell to vote for them.

      I don’t have a problem with the socialists going socdem because there is presumably a large gap there.

      The Socdems by name sold out more than 25 years ago.