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Far right politics on the rise in Germany

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The rise of far right wing parties in the recent European elections continues to reverberate on the continent.

Nationalist parties polled strongly in Italy, the Netherlands, Greece and Austria and of course in France, where Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party trounced Emmanuelle Macron’s centrist alliance, leading to the French President calling a snap national election for early next month.

But it was the success of Germany’s far right AFD party that was perhaps of most significance, with the Alternative for Germany polling 16 per cent, second only to the Christian Democrats, the major catch-all party of the centre-right in German politics, on 30 per cent.

The question is what sort of a pointer might the European elections be for the next German elections next year?

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The rise of far right wing parties in the recent European elections continues to reverberate on the continent.

Nationalist parties polled strongly in Italy, the Netherlands, Greece and Austria and of course in France, where Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party trounced Emmanuelle Macron’s centrist alliance, leading to the French President calling a snap national election for early next month.

But it was the success of Germany’s far right AFD party that was perhaps of most significance, with the Alternative for Germany polling 16 per cent, second only to the Christian Democrats, the major catch-all party of the centre-right in German politics, on 30 per cent.

The question is what sort of a pointer might the European elections be for the next German elections next year?

  continue reading

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