Populist wave continues to crash through German elections
Two weeks ago, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was “shocked” when his conservative CDU party got creamed by the hard right AfD in local elections in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. That was just the start. Now his shock has given way to “disaster” as the CDU failed to even pass the 5% threshold in yesterday’s vote in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which the AfD also won. Meanwhile, in Berlin, the hard left Die Linke party topped the vote, beating the Social Democrats who
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